Distinguished Engineer End-to-End Security Architect

About us

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 SoftBank 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. A melting pot of AI research specialists silicon designers software engineers and systems architects Graphcore fosters continuous learning and innovation.

Job Summary

Reporting into the Systems Engineering organisation the Distinguished Engineer End-to-End Security Architect will define and lead the security architecture for Graphcore’s inference service platform. This role is responsible for establishing a comprehensive security strategy spanning platform infrastructure networking service operations customer assurance and compliance readiness. Working across multiple engineering and operational functions the successful candidate will provide technical leadership drive security requirements and ensure the platform delivers robust protection resilience and trust for customers.

The Team

You will work closely with teams across security architecture infrastructure engineering networking site reliability engineering platform software firmware data centre operations compliance legal customer engineering and customer security. The team collaborates across the business to deliver secure reliable and scalable AI infrastructure and services while supporting customer assurance regulatory requirements and operational excellence.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Own the end-to-end security architecture for the inference service platform covering infrastructure networking APIs operational controls monitoring and customer assurance.
• Define security principles threat models trust boundaries tenant isolation requirements and architectural standards for the service.
• Establish security requirements for deployment environments including physical security operational controls access management and asset protection.
• Define platform security requirements across hardware firmware secure boot attestation software integrity and lifecycle management.
• Lead the design of network and service isolation controls secure communications segmentation strategies and administrative access protections.
• Own security architecture for authentication authorisation secrets management encryption key management and data protection controls.
• Define privileged access management approaches audit requirements access review processes and emergency access procedures.
• Establish logging monitoring telemetry incident response and security assurance requirements across the service lifecycle.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to ensure security requirements are effectively implemented maintained and validated.
• Assess security posture against customer contractual regulatory and internal requirements managing risk-based decisions where required.
• Support customer security reviews audits penetration testing activities security questionnaires and technical assurance discussions.
• Provide technical leadership architectural guidance mentoring and design review expertise across multiple teams and disciplines.

Candidate Profile

Essential

• Advanced degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Cybersecurity Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience in security architecture platform security cloud security infrastructure security or large-scale service security.
• Demonstrated experience defining and owning security architecture for customer-facing platforms infrastructure services or large-scale production environments.
• Deep understanding of threat modelling zero-trust principles tenant isolation privileged access management cryptographic controls and secure operations.
• Strong knowledge of platform security technologies including trusted execution mechanisms secure boot attestation firmware integrity and supply-chain security concepts.
• Experience defining security requirements for data centre deployments operational environments and physical security controls.
• Expertise in network security architecture segmentation management-plane protection secure communications monitoring and access control.
• Experience with key management secrets management certificate lifecycle management and encryption technologies.
• Experience securing APIs deployment pipelines service control planes and operational tooling.
• Strong understanding of logging monitoring incident response security operations and evidence management practices.
• Experience supporting customer security reviews audits penetration testing activities and executive-level security discussions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to lead through influence across engineering security operations compliance and customer-facing teams.

Desirable

• Experience securing AI/ML inference platforms model-serving infrastructure accelerator-based systems or confidential AI workloads.
• Experience with trusted execution environments platform attestation technologies secure firmware development and workload identity solutions.
• Experience with confidential computing secure enclaves measured boot technologies and remote attestation.
• Experience supporting highly regulated environments critical infrastructure or security-sensitive customer deployments.
• Familiarity with industry security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 ISO 27001 ISO 27017 ISO 27018 PCI DSS FedRAMP or NIST standards.
• Knowledge of hardware platform security high-performance networking storage security and accelerator ecosystem technologies.
• Experience with supply-chain risk management secure manufacturing practices asset lifecycle controls and secure disposal processes.
• Understanding of emerging cryptographic technologies and future security trends.
• Experience working with hyperscalers enterprise customers AI organisations or managed infrastructure providers.

In addition to a comprehensive benefits package Graphcore offers flexible working arrangements designed to support your health wellbeing and financial future. Our benefits include medical dental and vision coverage Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) disability and life insurance a 401(k) retirement plan commuter benefits wellness services and an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive work environment where everyone can thrive. We offer an equal opportunity recruitment process and can provide a flexible approach to interviews. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

What We Do

At Graphcore we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor software and AI experts with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group backed by significant long-term investment we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem. To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world. We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company our products and the future of artificial intelligence.

Why Work With Us

Our team is at the forefront of the machine intelligence revolution enabling innovators from all industries to build AI-native products to expand human potential. What we do at Graphcore really makes a difference.

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