Location: Bristol, UK
Start date: September 2027
Application deadline: Midnight, 29th November 2026
We encourage you to apply early, as we may close applications before the advertised deadline.

The Graduate Programme at Graphcore

Join Graphcore in a permanent role and start your career with two years of hands-on learning. From day one, you’ll be trusted to take ownership, share your ideas and help shape what we’re creating. You’ll tackle challenging problems alongside a team who support your development and are as excited about your success as you are.

What you’ll work on

Put your software skills to work testing how AI and machine learning workloads run on Graphcore accelerator hardware.

As a Graduate Software Engineer in AI/ML Test Systems, you’ll create representative machine learning workloads and analyse their numerical accuracy and performance. You’ll design tests and help improve testing strategies and infrastructure across simulated and physical hardware.

You’ll also build continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, investigate difficult problems and turn your findings into measurable improvements. Your work will connect machine learning frameworks and models with the hardware beneath them, helping improve software quality and customer experience.

Your team and support

The Software QA team combines software engineering, automation and data analysis to improve product quality and customer experience. We work extensively with industry-standard machine learning frameworks and models, including contributions to upstream open-source projects.

Our team works in small squads, each with ownership of a particular area of software quality. As a graduate, you’ll have the opportunity to explore the breadth of our work, gain practical experience across different areas and discover what interests you before settling into a squad.

You’ll work alongside engineers who investigate problems, share findings and collaborate closely with development teams to improve quality, security and maintainability. Test results, performance data and the needs of the wider software organisation guide our decisions.

You’ll have a buddy to help you find your feet and a manager who will support your development, explore your career goals with you and help make time for learning. You’ll be encouraged to ask questions, challenge existing approaches and take initiative, with experienced colleagues to turn to for guidance as you build confidence and take ownership of your work.

How you’ll learn and grow

During the two-year programme, you’ll build practical experience across machine learning, testing, automation and performance analysis.

Creating workloads and analysing results will help you understand how software behaves on accelerator hardware. Debugging issues will develop your problem-solving skills and help you connect numerical accuracy and performance to the systems running a model.

Work on test infrastructure and CI/CD will show you how automated checks support software development across simulated and physical platforms. Sharing findings with development teams will help you explain technical problems clearly and turn evidence into improvements.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science or a related field
Strong Python skills and proficiency in C++
Experience working with Linux operating systems and the ability to learn new technologies quickly

Exposure to machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, Triton or TensorFlow, test automation, CI/CD, data analytics, hardware architectures or compilers would be useful.

Experience with distributed workload management systems or machine learning operations (MLOps) pipelines would also be useful. These are additional strengths, rather than essential requirements.

Benefits

Flexible working: Balance your work and personal life with greater flexibility
Retirement planning support: Up to 5% matched pension
Phantom equity: Share in Graphcore’s success
Workplace experience: Enjoy thoughtfully designed office spaces for collaboration, with free food and an on-site barista to support your day
Peace of mind protection: Income protection and life assurance to provide financial security for you and your loved o