Legal Operations Engineer - 5 month FTC

Graphcore

About the job Start your engineering career helping build the silicon behind tomorrow’s AI systems. As a Graduate Silicon Engineer, you will gain insight into how sophisticated AI chips are crafted, verified and prepared for manufacture. You will join one of our silicon teams across logical compose and DFT, verification, or layout implementation. Each path gives you hands-on experience with real chip development and industry-standard EDA tools. You will work close to expert engineers who explain the detail, challenge your thinking and help you grow. You will build practical skills in RTL, verification methods, timing, implementation or physical design checks. You do not need to arrive as an authority. We are looking for graduates with strong fundamentals, curiosity and the aim to learn quickly. The Team & Culture Graphcore’s Silicon team turns high-reaching AI compute ideas into manufacturable silicon. Logical design, DFT, verification and physical design work closely with architecture, operations and other engineering teams. You will learn through design reviews, code reviews, technical discussions and practical problem solving. Work is broken into clear tasks, with support available and ownership expected from the start.Decisions are made through evidence, engineering judgement and open challenge. Graduates are encouraged to ask questions, speak up and build confidence by contributing early. What we’re looking for * On track for, or achieved, a degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or a related subject * Technical skills in C, C++ or Python, shown through study, projects, hobbies, internships or work experience * Interest in digital design, ASICs, verification, physical design, computer architecture or AI compute * Motivation to learn modern silicon design techniques and industry-standard EDA tools * Strong problem-solving skills, collaboration and clear communication * Curiosity, ownership and hunger to learn, not instant expertise  Benefits * Flexible working: Balance your work and personal life with greater flexibility * Generous leave: Take time to rest, recharge and enjoy life outside of work * 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 * 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 Sponsorship Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support visa applications for this role.  Inclusion statement We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work. We’re an equal opportunity employer and recognise that everyone brings different strengths and perspectives. If you need any adjustments during the interview process, just let us know - we’re happy to support you. Join the team at Graphcore 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 brings together deep expertise to solve complex problems and deliver meaningful progress in AI compute. Join Graphcore’s Graduate Silicon Engineering Programme and start building the skills, confidence, and experience to turn your learning into real impact. Apply now.

Speechmatics

We're looking for an Infrastructure Team Lead to take ownership of the systems that power our AI research and development, ranging from bare metal GPU clusters through to the internal services our engineers rely on every day.  This is a broad role with technical depth and people leadership. You will set the technical direction of the Infrastructure team, drive reliability and continuous improvements across the stack – from physical layer through to the software layer. Additionally, you will be investing in your engineers through 1:1s, coaching and creating career development opportunities.  We’re a team that gets things done properly and multiplies the impact of others. If that sounds like an exciting problem, we’d love to talk.  What you'll be doing  * Leading, managing, and developing a team of Infrastructure Engineers, setting clear objectives and fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture  * We are heavy users of infrastructure as code and automation, so you will be hands-on with PXE booting, Ansible for configuration, Terraform for VMware deployments and Helm for Kubernetes deployments * Conducting regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and development planning to build technical capability and support career progression * Owning operational stability across our infrastructure, including hardware monitoring, troubleshooting and disaster recovery testing * Acting as the escalation point for technical and operational issues, leading major incident response and driving resolution * Leading infrastructure strategy, including capacity and project planning * Driving standardisation, automation and optimisation to reduce toil * Leading vendor relationships with hardware vendors, managed service providers and other external contacts  Who we are looking for  * Proven experience in an Infrastructure Team Lead or Senior Engineer role, with strong people management and coaching skills * Experience leading or mentoring engineers, including setting objectives and supporting career development * A desire to go deep into any subject and a genuine love of learning on the job * Broad knowledge of the infrastructure supporting distributed systems — operating systems, observability tooling, networking, storage, containers and container orchestration * Comfortable troubleshooting Linux systems (we use Ubuntu) * Solid experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling — we use Terraform and Ansible extensively * Experience with bare metal provisioning — we use PXE booting to automate hardware OS installs * Strong networking configuration and troubleshooting skills, including DNS/DHCP/IPAM * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels and report up and out  We encourage you to apply even if you do not feel you match all of the requirements exactly. The list of requirements is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we’re looking for, but it is not exhaustive. If you are interested in the role, the team, and our mission, we would love to consider your application. We are always open to conversations and look forward to hearing from you. Who we are: Speechmatics is the leading expert in Speech Intelligence, and uses AI and Machine Learning to unlock business value in human speech worldwide. We work with an amazing mix of global companies, and our technology can integrate into our customers stack irrespective of their industry or use case – making it the go-to solution to harness useful information from speech. Joining us means working with some of the smartest minds around the world, focused on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest techniques to disrupt the market. We believe in putting people first; we’ll do all we can to help you develop your skills and give you the tools you need to thrive. Our Focus Fridays give you an undisturbed day of focus, offset with Together Tuesdays when we have our team meetings, so you've always got the right balance. We have structured a hybrid approach that includes 2-3 designated office days each week. This arrangement ensures that while we embrace the advantages of remote work, we also maintain the vital connection and synergy that only in-person interactions can foster. This is only the beginning; we’re looking for amazing people like you to continue our journey… What we can offer you: No matter what stage of your career you’re at - from paid internships and first-job opportunities through to management and senior positions - we’ll support you with the training and development needed to reach your career aspirations with us. There really is no shortage of opportunities here for you to get involved and collaborate with those around you to deliver your best work. We offer incredibly flexible working, regular company lunches, and birthday celebrations. But that’s not all. We’ve spoken to our teams to find out what they want. From Private Medical, and Dental for you and your family, through to global working opportunities, a generous holiday allowance and pension/401K matching, we want to make sure our employees and their families are looked after. Every employee will receive a working from home allowance for tech or home office equipment (on top of your choice of laptop and accessories of course). Our approach to parental leave is designed to support employees globally. While this varies by geo, we have support in place for parents (including adoption assistance and reproductive health services) to ensure they have the time and financial resources needed to care for their growing families. At Speechmatics, our mission is simple: Understand Every Voice out there.  That's not just about our tech – it's the heart and soul of who we are. We welcome different experiences, viewpoints, and identities. For us, it’s not just the right thing to do; it’s our catalyst for sparking innovation and creativity. Our teams thrive in an environment that celebrates and supports everyone – no matter their gender, identity or expression, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, marital status, national origin, veteran status, pregnancy, or maternity status. But we don’t just open the door to diversity – we actively welcome it. Why? Because we believe every unique voice adds something special to our team, leading us to smarter solutions and a better workplace. So, come as you are and join our Speechling community. We’re building a place where every voice not only gets heard but is also respected and valued. For more information on us, please visit our website and follow Speechmatics on our social channels via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. WE RELY ON LEGITIMATE INTEREST AS A LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION UNDER THE GDPR FOR PURPOSES OF RECRUITMENT AND APPLICATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT.  #LI-HYBRID

Speechmatics

We are hiring a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to work on cutting-edge R&D and translating research into customer-centric solutions.    As innovators in speech technology, our mission is to Understand Every Voice—a vision that has propelled us to be world leaders of Voice AI. Fuelled by innovation, inclusivity, and a passion for making a global impact through world-leading Speech AI, we're looking for an experienced Principal Machine Learning Engineer to accelerate our efforts towards exceptional speech solutions.  Our Modelling Team trains diverse models, including large self-supervised ones, supporting Speechmatics towards being the most accurate speech recognition system globally. It also ensures their deployment into production, working with the latest developments in ML, but also with the best engineering practices for software engineering and model serving.  This is a hands-on, technical leadership role with high ownership.  You will develop and deploy advanced speech systems that power our products as well as co-define the technical vision for ML, drive innovation, and mentor engineering teams. Your work will span the entire codebase.     What You’ll Do: * Develop and deploy ML models, translating research into scalable, maintainable code and services  * Optimise ML models for speed, accuracy, and cost efficiency  * Evaluate and integrate cutting-edge approaches into our ML stack * Identify and solve complex ML problems across the organisation * Define and enforce best practices for code quality, model lifecycle management, etc. * Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation * Co-define the long-term technical vision  What We’re Looking For: * Deep understanding of the modern Machine Learning stack, for example: * Knowledge of contemporary transformer architectures (e.g., GQA, KV-caching) and best practices * Expertise in distributed training techniques * Familiarity with optimisation strategies for model inference (e.g., dynamic batching, flash attention, speculative decoding) * Proven track record of developing and deploying models at scale * Expertise in Python, ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), and experience with cloud platforms * Strong familiarity with MLOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)   With preferred backgrounds covering some of the following: * Experience with speech-to-text or text-to-speech  * Contributions to open-source projects or published research in top-tier conferences We encourage you to apply even if you do not feel you match all of the requirements exactly. The list of requirements is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we’re looking for, but it is not exhaustive. If you are interested in the role, the team, and our mission, we would love to consider your application. We are always open to conversations and look forward to hearing from you. Who we are: Speechmatics is the leading expert in Speech Intelligence, and uses AI and Machine Learning to unlock business value in human speech worldwide. We work with an amazing mix of global companies, and our technology can integrate into our customers stack irrespective of their industry or use case – making it the go-to solution to harness useful information from speech. Joining us means working with some of the smartest minds around the world, focused on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest techniques to disrupt the market. We believe in putting people first; we’ll do all we can to help you develop your skills and give you the tools you need to thrive. Our Focus Fridays give you an undisturbed day of focus, offset with Together Tuesdays when we have our team meetings, so you've always got the right balance. We have structured a hybrid approach that includes 2-3 designated office days each week. This arrangement ensures that while we embrace the advantages of remote work, we also maintain the vital connection and synergy that only in-person interactions can foster. This is only the beginning; we’re looking for amazing people like you to continue our journey… What we can offer you: No matter what stage of your career you’re at - from paid internships and first-job opportunities through to management and senior positions - we’ll support you with the training and development needed to reach your career aspirations with us. There really is no shortage of opportunities here for you to get involved and collaborate with those around you to deliver your best work. We offer incredibly flexible working, regular company lunches, and birthday celebrations. But that’s not all. We’ve spoken to our teams to find out what they want. From Private Medical, and Dental for you and your family, through to global working opportunities, a generous holiday allowance and pension/401K matching, we want to make sure our employees and their families are looked after. Every employee will receive a working from home allowance for tech or home office equipment (on top of your choice of laptop and accessories of course). Our approach to parental leave is designed to support employees globally. While this varies by geo, we have support in place for parents (including adoption assistance and reproductive health services) to ensure they have the time and financial resources needed to care for their growing families. At Speechmatics, our mission is simple: Understand Every Voice out there.  That's not just about our tech – it's the heart and soul of who we are. We welcome different experiences, viewpoints, and identities. For us, it’s not just the right thing to do; it’s our catalyst for sparking innovation and creativity. Our teams thrive in an environment that celebrates and supports everyone – no matter their gender, identity or expression, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, marital status, national origin, veteran status, pregnancy, or maternity status. But we don’t just open the door to diversity – we actively welcome it. Why? Because we believe every unique voice adds something special to our team, leading us to smarter solutions and a better workplace. So, come as you are and join our Speechling community. We’re building a place where every voice not only gets heard but is also respected and valued. For more information on us, please visit our website and follow Speechmatics on our social channels via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. WE RELY ON LEGITIMATE INTEREST AS A LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION UNDER THE GDPR FOR PURPOSES OF RECRUITMENT AND APPLICATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT.  #LI-HYBRID