Principal Security Architect

About Graphcore

How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity?

Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business.

Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group – bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world’s leading backers of innovative AI companies.

Job Summary

Principal Security Architect responsible for coordinating across teams in Graphcore to ensure consistently high levels of product security.

The Team

The Product Management team at Graphcore is responsible for defining the overall product vision. This includes market research, customer feedback, managing requirements and roadmaps across functional teams and acting on feedback and data analysis.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Creating and maintaining the high-level security requirements and architecture documents (working alongside the rest of the architecture team) that will drive the appropriate approaches, requirements and designs into the engineering teams.
• Assist with security reviews of and technical recommendations into high-level and low-level designs where required – across cloud, software, hardware and silicon.
• Create and maintain threat models that span and integrate across all products.
• Maintain compliance with relevant standards and certifications.
• Build and maintain security best practices.
• Drive communications and training across teams in security best practices.

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• Demonstrable and significant history of supporting and maintaining security best practice in a complex environment.
• Demonstrable would mean being able to describe in detail how the system was built, tested and updated to attain and maintain a suitable level of security, including how/why the proposed level of security was chosen.
• Software engineering background – essential in communicating with the engineering teams.
• Growth Mindset – Graphcore recognises that this role is very broad, and therefore it is unlikely that candidates will have experience across all areas mentioned. It is therefore more important that candidates are keen to grow their capabilities across areas in which they may not have immediate experience, and to transfer their security expertise into those areas.

Desirable

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology (or a related field) or equivalent experience/professional/industry certifications.
• Broad experience with security domains such as (but not limited to):
• Confidential Compute
• Trusted Computing
• Application security (e.g. SAST/SCA/DAST)
• Identity & access management.
• Any level of hardware or silicon design experience.
• Experience of ISO certification processes.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! 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