Compliance Manager - Global Lab Environment

About the role

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.

The Team

You will be part of a cross-functional security and infrastructure team supporting Graphcore’s international engineering centers, including the new AI Engineering Campus in Austin. The team works closely with hardware engineers, IT, and security stakeholders to ensure compliance controls are embedded into lab environments and operational workflows.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Define and implement physical access controls, including lab zoning and restricted areas
• Ensure sensitive hardware is secured and not exposed within lab environments
• Enforce network division and permission management across mixed infrastructure environments
• Career asset monitoring, inventory oversight, and chain-of-custody activities
• Support secure lab bring-up and infrastructure deployment activities
• Implement and scale compliance controls across global engineering labs
• Partner with engineering departments to ensure secure handling of engineering data through approved systems
• Supervise and improve compliance with internal security policies and external standards
• Contribute to the development of secure infrastructure practices within AI and hardware environments

Candidate Profile

• Essential:
• Hands-on experience implementing physical access control and lab zoning
• Having worked in labs, data centers, or hardware engineering environments
• P Practical experience with network segmentation and access control
• Experience running hardware asset tracking, inventory, and custody
• Experience working in secure infrastructure or lab bring-up environments
• Strong understanding of operational security controls in technical environments
• Desirable:
• Exposure to export-controlled environments
• Experience in AI, HPC, semiconductor, or hardware validation labs
• Familiarity with BMC / out-of-band (OOB) networks and rack-level infrastructure
• Solid understanding of ISO 27001, SOC 2, or NIST frameworks (practical application preferred)

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience implementing physical access control and lab zoning
• Having worked in labs, data centers, or hardware engineering environments
• Practical experience with network segmentation and access control
• Experience running hardware asset tracking, inventory, and custody
• Experience working in secure infrastructure or lab bring-up environments
• Strong understanding of operational security controls in technical environments

Skills

• Hands-on experience implementing physical access control and lab zoning
• Having worked in labs, data centers, or hardware engineering environments
• Practical experience with network segmentation and access control
• Experience running hardware asset tracking, inventory, and custody
• Experience working in secure infrastructure or lab bring-up environments
• Strong understanding of operational security controls in technical environments

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 Programme (EAP).