Principal Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
Originally posted 11 August 2026 by the employer.
Graphcore is developing critical interfaces to manage system state for large-scale AI solutions.
About the role
This Principal Engineer will join the System Management team to lead the development of critical interfaces for managing system state. This role contributes to building Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions for customers.
What you'll do
- Convert System Management direction into technical plans, engineering priorities, and deliverable work.
- Provide technical leadership for architecture and design decisions, building alignment and documenting technical trade-offs.
- Act as a technical authority for assigned areas of System Management, leading the delivery of large engineering initiatives.
- Provide technical direction and mentoring to engineers across system management, hardware lifecycle management, deployment automation, and production operations.
- Take responsibility for key technical outcomes across the full software lifecycle, including design, implementation, automated testing, integration, deployment, observability, and production readiness.
- Identify systemic reliability, scalability, and operability issues and lead practical improvements across the platform.
- Collaborate with Hardware, Firmware, Platform Software, and Datacenter Operations teams to diagnose system-level issues.
- Improve engineering standards and working practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated testing, and release safety.
- Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex issues while creating reusable knowledge, tooling, and automation.
What you'll need
- Substantial experience designing, building, and operating Linux-based infrastructure or distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership for complex engineering initiatives involving multiple teams.
- Experience influencing architecture and technical decisions across team boundaries.
- Strong experience developing RESTful APIs and programming in Go, with Bash and Python for systems automation.
- Deep practical experience with Kubernetes, container runtimes, and operating production workloads.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, source control, and CI/CD technologies such as Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, GitLab, GitHub Actions, and Git.
- Experience with hardware-management interfaces such as Redfish, IPMI or equivalent management systems.
- Strong Linux systems engineering, troubleshooting, and operational debugging capability.
- Demonstrated ability to develop other engineers through technical mentoring, design reviews, and coaching.
Skills: System Management, Linux-based infrastructure, Kubernetes, hardware-management interfaces, AI solutions
This role has been open 67 days — well above the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
976
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Graphcore | All employers we track in this specialty (976 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 44 | 976 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 84 | 6114 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 93 d | 51 d (+42 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: System Management, Linux-based infrastructure, Kubernetes, hardware-management interfaces, AI solutions
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 281 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 18 d
- Graphcore (this employer) · 44 open roles · median 92 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 11 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 82 d
How we counted: 976 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.