Graduate Software Engineer, DevOps 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 coding skills to work on the infrastructure that helps Graphcore engineers turn code into reliable software releases. As a Graduate Software Engineer in DevOps, you’ll help develop and maintain tools for software builds and releases. You’ll deploy services using Kubernetes and Docker, and support cloud infrastructure managed through tools such as Terraform. Working closely with teams developing Graphcore’s machine learning software stack, you’ll help automate repetitive tasks and improve the workflows engineers use every day.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Help develop and maintain tools for software builds and releases
• Deploy services using Kubernetes and Docker
• Support cloud infrastructure managed through tools such as Terraform
• Automate repetitive tasks and improve the workflows engineers use every day
• Work with fellow graduates on a project developing new capability that goes into production

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science or a related field
• Knowledge of Python, Go, C++ or a similar programming language
• Experience developing or managing systems in Linux environments
• An understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), with the communication skills to explain your work and collaborate with others

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Exposure or experience in Kubernetes, OpenStack, infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu, GitHub Actions, build tools, high-performance computing (HPC), Grafana or cloud services such as AWS

🎁 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.