Graphcore Applied AI

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Large Systems)

  • Location Cambridge, UK
  • Seniority senior
  • Posted 2025-12-12

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Implement and optimize machine learning models for performance and accuracy on large scale systems.

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Skills

PythonPyTorchKubernetesMachine LearningAISoftware developmentResearchOptimizationKernel developmentDistributed trainingInference

Excerpt from the original posting

About Graphcore 

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale.As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence. 

Job Summary 

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the Applied AI team at Graphcore, you will contribute to advancing AI technology by developing and optimising AI models tailored to our specialised hardware. You will work on large scale systems where performance is critical to the success of our projects. Working closely with the Software development and Research teams, you will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate Graphcore’s technology. We seek engineers with strong technical skills and an understanding of AI model implementation at scale, eager to make a tangible impact in this rapidly evolving field.

The Team 

The Applied AI team’s role is to be proxies for our customers, we need to understand the latest AI models, applications, and software to ensure that Graphcore’s technology works seamlessly with the AI ecosystem and at scale. We build reference applications, contribute to key software libraries e.g. optimising kernels for efficiency on our hardware, and collaborate with the Research team to develop and publish novel ideas in domains such as efficient compute, model scaling and distributed training and inference of AI models for multiple modalities and applications.

If you're excited about advancing the next generation of AI models on cutting-edge hardware, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities and Duties 

- Implement latest machine learning models and optimise them for performance and accuracy, scaling to 1000s of accelerators.

- Test and evaluate new internal software releases, provide feedback to software engineering teams, make necessary code fixes, and conduct code reviews.

- Benchmark models and key ML techniques to identify performance bottlenecks and improve model efficienc…

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