Staff Engineering Program Coordination Support

The job

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Job 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 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.

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The city

The job is in Milpitas, CA. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Milpitas compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, Milpitas is #113 by population, #134 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #18 for household income (#1 = highest), #27 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Santa Clara County, is #1 of 58 counties for average pay ($197,043).

The place in numbers

Milpitas has 78,578 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.2% of the population of California. It covers 13 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 5,829 people per square mile. The median age is 36.8, about the same as the state median (36.8 against 37.9).

Housing

The median gross rent is $3,120 a month (rent plus utilities), 53% above the state median ($3,120 against $2,036). Over a year that is 20.9% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $1,251,700, which is 7.0 times the median household income ($178,798); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 58.4% of households own their home, 5% above the state average (58.4% against 55.9%).

Work and pay

The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan area has 1,134,970 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $84,050 a year, 65% above the national median ($84,050 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are computer and mathematical (149,970 jobs, median $186,320); management (115,110 jobs, median $210,750); business and financial operations (94,210 jobs, median $125,240). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (3.9 times) and architecture and engineering (2.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($210,750) and legal ($195,190). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Santa Clara County was 4.2%. 65.8% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Santa Clara County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 60.3% drive alone, 2.2% use public transit, 0.7% walk, 25.2% work from home. 15.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 22% below the state average (15.2% against 19.4%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

58.2% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 57% above the state share (58.2% against 37.1%). 55.4% of residents were born outside the United States, 105% above the state share (55.4% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 5.9%, 51% below the state rate (5.9% against 12.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 68°F (19.8°C), and the coolest is Jan at 47°F (8.3°C). About 510 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (114 mm) and Jul the driest (0 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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Closest cities in this guide: Fremont (5 miles, rent 6% lower); Santa Clara (6 miles, rent 3% lower); Sunnyvale (8 miles, similar rent); Newark (9 miles, rent 11% lower). Rent differences are against Milpitas; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Official links for Milpitas

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Distances

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Median rent in Milpitas is $3,120 a month and median household income $178,798 (ACS 2020–2024).

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• Wages and projections: BLS OEWS (May 2025) and Employment Projections 2025–35.
• City and county figures: Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024, BEA, BLS QCEW and LAUS, NASA POWER climatology; distances from Census Gazetteer coordinates.

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