Validation Chief of Staff

The role

The Validation Chief of Staff supports strategic execution, operational coordination, and cross-functional alignment across the validation organisation. This person will drive organisational effectiveness, coordinate priorities, and improve execution visibility for multiple validation teams.

What you will do

• Partner with validation leadership to coordinate execution across multiple validation and bring-up initiatives
• Drive organisational planning, prioritisation and operational tracking across validation programs and milestones
• Improve visibility of project status, technical risks, dependencies and execution readiness across teams
• Coordinate cross-functional activities between validation, architecture, silicon, firmware, software and systems engineering teams
• Support leadership reviews, engineering readiness assessments and validation status reporting
• Help define and improve operational processes, engineering workflows and communication structures
• Track key validation metrics, milestones and deliverables
• Support escalation management and coordination of complex technical issues across teams
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to validation infrastructure and engineering processes
• Organise and coordinate technical reviews, planning discussions and cross-site engineering meetings

Required qualifications

• Strong experience working within silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, system validation or related engineering environments
• Strong understanding of hardware and software development lifecycles for complex SoC or platform products
• Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering activities across multiple technical disciplines
• Excellent organisational, planning and operational coordination skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across multidisciplinary engineering organisations
• Experience creating structured reporting, tracking and operational review mechanisms
• Ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams and stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience using collaboration, reporting and project tracking tools within engineering environments
• Ability to operate independently in fast-moving and technically complex environments
• Strong Linux and Python familiarity within engineering workflows and validation environments

Nice to have

• Experience within post-silicon validation, debug or characterization organizations
• Understanding of SoC architectures, high-speed interfaces, memory systems and system integration challenges
• Experience supporting engineering leadership or operational execution within technical organizations
• Familiarity with validation infrastructure, regression systems and engineering workflows
• Experience with silicon bring-up and product readiness processes
• Knowledge of AI accelerator, GPU or high-performance compute systems
• Experience analyzing engineering execution metrics and operational data
• Familiarity with agile planning, milestone tracking and engineering program coordination
• Experience working across globally distributed engineering organizations

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• disability and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• commuter benefits
• wellness services
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

About the company

Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure to power the widespread adoption of AI solutions.