Software Engineering Summer Intern, Drivers and Utilities 2027

• Location: Bristol, UK
• Duration: 12 weeks
• Salary: £2500 per month
• Start date: June 2027
• Application deadline: Midnight 29th November
• We encourage you to apply early, as we may close applications before the advertised deadline.

The Internship Programme at Graphcore

Explore a career at Graphcore through a 12-week summer internship, gaining hands-on experience on real projects. You’ll bring fresh ideas, put your learning into practice and help shape what we’re creating. Along the way, you’ll tackle challenging problems with a team who welcome your questions and support you as you build your skills and confidence.

What you’ll work on

Put your low-level programming skills to work on the drivers that connect Graphcore’s AI hardware with machine learning software.

As a Software Engineering Intern in Drivers and Utilities, you’ll explore kernel and user-space development alongside engineers working across the hardware and software stack. Your contributions will help the wider software team use Graphcore hardware efficiently and support the systems our customers depend on.

Your tasks could include writing code, adding unit tests and manually testing your own and teammates’ changes. You’ll also help maintain continuous integration (CI) and fix issues, contributing to the work that keeps software development moving.

The team and culture

The Drivers and Utilities team sits within System Software, alongside Firmware and System QA. You’ll work with engineers who collaborate directly