# Principal Engineer at Graphcore

- Company: Graphcore
- What the company does: Graphcore has built a new type of processor for machine intelligence to accelerate machine learning and AI applications for a world of intelligent machines. Backed by Air Street.
- Company website: https://graphcore.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States; Milpitas, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/graphcore/jobs/8694587002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/graphcore-principal-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to join our System Management team and help lead the development of critical interfaces used by internal and external customers to manage system state. You will provide technical leadership within assigned areas of System Management, guide architecture and implementation choices, mentor engineers and translate broader technical direction into effective execution.

## What they're looking for

- Convert agreed System Management direction into technical plans, engineering priorities and deliverable work for assigned areas
- Provide technical leadership for architecture and design decisions, building alignment across collaborating teams and documenting important technical trade-offs
- Act as a technical authority for assigned areas of System Management, leading the delivery of large and complex engineering initiatives and coordinating technical plans, dependencies, risks and decisions
- Provide technical direction and mentoring to engineers working 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

Tags: System Management