Staff Hardware Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
Originally posted 12 March 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 8 October 2026.
Support hardware bring-up, validation, and troubleshooting for Graphcore's Arm-based hardware platforms and rack-scale infrastructure.
About the role
The Staff Hardware Engineer provides operational, diagnostic, and engineering support for Graphcore's Arm-based hardware platforms across lab and data center environments. The role supports hardware bring-up, validation, and troubleshooting across server blades, racks, and rack-scale infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Lead break-fix troubleshooting for server blades, motherboards, power systems, and rack-scale infrastructure. - Support engineering bring-up activities, including component validation and firmware interaction testing. - Diagnose system-level failures involving thermal behavior, power anomalies, network configuration, and BIOS/BMC issues. - Collaborate with server engineering teams to perform root cause analysis and propose corrective actions or design improvements. - Support deployment and rollout of hardware platforms through structured validation and qualification cycles. - Interface with facilities and infrastructure teams to evaluate environmental factors impacting system reliability, and maintain SOPs, troubleshooting guides, and validation documentation.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline. - 10+ years of experience with server hardware architectures and board-level debugging. - Experience analyzing system logs, hardware telemetry, and power/thermal metrics to isolate hardware failures. - Hands-on experience with HPC systems, AI compute platforms, or rack-scale infrastructure.
Skills: hardware bring-up, validation, troubleshooting, server hardware architectures, board-level debugging, AI compute platforms
This role has been open 129 days — well above the 51-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
1011
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$155k
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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 (1011 roles · 103 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 1011 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 110 | 6298 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 49 d | 51 d (−2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $155k |
Skills observed across this category: hardware bring-up, validation, troubleshooting, server hardware architectures, board-level debugging, AI compute platforms
Who's hiring in this category
- Intel Corporation · 74 open roles · median 35 d
- KLA Corporation · 63 open roles · median 49 d
- Teradyne · 60 open roles · median 35 d
- NVIDIA · 52 open roles · median 70 d
- Applied Materials · 49 open roles · median 70 d
- AMD · 45 open roles · median 52 d
How we counted: 1011 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 103 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 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.