Staff Engineering Program Coordination Support at Graphcore · Milpitas

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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.

Job Summary

Reporting to an Engineering leader, the Staff Engineering Coordination Support role is responsible for coordinating engineering activities across multiple teams, ensuring effective planning, execution tracking, communication, and operational alignment. The role acts as a central point of coordination for engineering programmes and initiatives, helping teams manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments while supporting efficient collaboration across the organisation. This structure follows the Graphcore job description guidance for role summaries.

The Team

The Engineering Coordination team supports the effective operation of engineering functions across Graphcore. The team works closely with engineering leaders, technical specialists, project stakeholders, and business partners to improve visibility, facilitate communication, coordinate planning activities, and enable successful delivery of engineering objectives. The team provides operational support that helps engineering groups work efficiently across projects, teams, and locations.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Coordinate engineering planning activities, schedules, milestones, and deliverables across multiple teams.
• Track progress against agreed plans and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
• Identify, monitor, and help manage project dependencies, risks, issues, and actions.
• Facilitate engineering meetings, reviews, planning sessions, and cross-functional coordination activities.
• Maintain project documentation, reporting dashboards, action logs, and operational records.
• Support engineering leaders with resource planning, prioritization activities, and workload visibility.
• Drive follow-up actions to ensure commitments are completed and blockers are escalated appropriately.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to improve communication and information flow.
• Assist in the implementation and continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Produce clear and concise reports, presentations, and communications for engineering and business audiences.
• Coordinate activities across geographically distributed teams to support efficient execution.
• Contribute to operational excellence initiatives that improve predictability, efficiency, and delivery outcomes.
  
  

Candidate Profile

Essential

• Experience coordinating complex technical, engineering, programe, or operational activities.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Experience tracking actions, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to influence outcomes and drive progress without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Experience using project management, planning, reporting, or collaboration tools.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.
• Proactive approach to identifying improvements and resolving coordination challenges.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience supporting engineering, software, hardware, semiconductor, or technology-focused organizations.
• Knowledge of project, programe, or portfolio management methodologies.
• Experience creating executive-level reporting and operational dashboards.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or similar delivery frameworks.
• Experience coordinating activities across international or distributed teams.
• Understanding of engineering product development lifecycles.

USA Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working and a comprehensive benefits package 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 Programe (EAP). We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.