Principal Software Architect

Bristol💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-08 → 2026-07-31

Core

Define and drive the architectural vision of the software stack for the Graphcore ML accelerator, shaping the software ecosystem and ensuring coherence across hardware and software components.

Role type

Principal Software Architect (ML Accelerator)

Builds

Software stack for Graphcore ML accelerator (firmware to ML frameworks)

Domain

AI Hardware / ML Infrastructure / HPC

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Firmware, Drivers, ML frameworks (PyTorch, Triton), Collectives, HPC, Tooling, C & C++, CPU architectures, Architectural trade-off analysis, Proof-of-concept implementation

Preferred skills

Previous architecture role experience

Technologies

PyTorch, Triton, C, C++

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About graphcore

Semiconductor Manufacturing722Bristol, Bristol, GBFounded 2016

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 th