Distinguished Engineer, End-to-End Security Architect
Designs and leads the security architecture for Graphcore’s AI inference service platform, ensuring robust protection, compliance, and customer trust across infrastructure, networking, and operations.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States; Milpitas, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- 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.
Full description
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.