Graduate Infrastructure Solutions Engineer 2027

📋 Job Overview

Join Graphcore in a permanent role and start your career with two years of hands-on learning. From day one, you’ll be trusted to take ownership, share your ideas and help shape what we’re creating. You’ll tackle challenging problems alongside a team who support your development and are as excited about your success as you are.

🏢 About Graphcore

At Graphcore, we’re building next generation AI compute: from semiconductors and software to systems at datacenter scale. We are proud to be owned by SoftBank Group and work with other companies in the SoftBank family to deliver AI compute to customers working at the AI frontier. Starting your career here means working alongside people with different backgrounds and expertise, from AI researchers to chip designers and software engineers. You’ll learn from each other, bring fresh ideas and help solve challenging problems together.

🎯 The Role

Put your technical foundations to work on the infrastructure solutions that keeps Graphcore’s engineering teams connected, productive and secure. As a Graduate IS Engineer, you’ll support infrastructure operations, investigate technical issues and contribute to projects that improve reliability, performance and security. Your work will span servers, storage, networking, cloud platforms, automation and monitoring. You’ll learn how these systems support AI engineering at scale, building practical experience with Linux, Windows, scripting and infrastructure as code. It’s a chance to see how the technology behind an engineering organisation works and help make it better.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Support infrastructure operations and investigate technical issues
• Contribute to projects that improve reliability, performance and security
• Work with servers, storage, networking, cloud platforms, automation and monitoring
• Build practical experience with Linux, Windows, scripting and infrastructure as code
• Learn how infrastructure systems support AI engineering at scale

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science or a related field
• Familiarity with Linux or Windows server environments
• An understanding of networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, DNS, routing or firewalls
• Introductory scripting experience with Python, Bash or PowerShell

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible working: Balance your work and personal life with greater flexibility
• Retirement planning support: Up to 5% matched pension
• Phantom equity: Share in Graphcore’s success
• Workplace experience: Enjoy thoughtfully designed office spaces for collaboration, with free food and an on-site barista to support your day
• Peace of mind protection: Income protection and life assurance to provide financial security for you and your loved ones
• Electric Vehicle Scheme: Choose an electric vehicle and lease it through salary sacrifice
• Flexible benefits: Tailor your benefits package with a choice of additional options, including private medical insurance and dental cover
• Optional benefits: Dental cover, health cash plan, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, give as you earn

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the programme, without requiring visa sponsorship. We are unable to sponsor work visas for our Early Careers opportunities.