Graduate Firmware Engineer

2026 Graduate Firmware Engineer – targetjobs UK

Apply now to join Graphcore as a Graduate Firmware Engineer and help shape the future of AI infrastructure.

Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software, and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. As part of the Soft Bank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies.

Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives, creating a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.

Reporting to the Firmware Manager, the Graduate Firmware Engineer will contribute to the design, development, and delivery of the firmware that powers our next‑generation products. The role involves technical discussions across multiple teams within Graphcore and with partners.

The firmware team writes the software that ensures the full and complete bootup of Graphcore Hardware and Silicon. We design and maintain interfaces to allow our Drivers software to interact with Graphcore Silicon and present telemetry and monitoring data for use by the host system via the SMBus interface and by data centre operators via the BMC.

• Support the design, development, and delivery of firmware code to Graphcore standards.
• Participate in technical design discussions within the Firmware team, other teams within Graphcore, and partners.
• Participate in code reviews individually and as part of the team.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and actively improve Agile best practices within the team.
• Contribute to and take part in in‑depth technical design discussions with team members, bringing new ideas and innovative techniques where possible.
• Support engineers within the team and other teams to investigate and resolve firmware‑related problems with our products.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science or related field.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration, build systems and software packaging best practices.
• Introductory experience with C or Python.

• Experience designing and implementing real‑time embedded software and subsequent verification.
• Proven ability to understand, build and debug complex embedded platforms.
• A good understanding of server architecture and performance in a data centre environment.
• Experience of device drivers and OS Kernel development.
• A good understanding of server security from both a hardware and software perspective, and how this applies to the server firmware.

Graphcore offers a competitive salary, flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance, a health cash plan, a dental plan, a pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance, income protection, a generous parental leave policy, and an employee assistance programme (including health, mental wellbeing and bereavement support). We also provide healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and our own barista bar!

We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences, are committed to an inclusive work environment, and provide a flexible approach to interviews and reasonable adjustments as required.

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