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Engineering Manager, Kernel Reliability
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Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs.
Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.
Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, owning the technical vision and roadmap for the kernel-centric reliability of our internal and customer-facing systems
- Assist System and Cluster Operations teams on reducing system and service downtime after failure by providing tooling and manual intervention for failure analysis and diagnostic
- Work with the Debug Team to enhance debug tools with the goal of speeding up failure analysis
- Collaborate with SW teams to improve the software stack, including Kernels, to improve on-field debugging and failure analysis
- Work with the ASIC an HW architecture teams to codesign the next generation architectures with reliability and ease of debug in mind
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-caliber team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and rapid execution.
- 6+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years leading teams in SW/HW reliability, debug, diagnostic, failure analysis or related fields
- Expertise in parallel and distributed programming (message passing, multicore, GPU, embeded, etc.), debug and diagnostic tool development or expert usage (debuggers, core dump handling, code sanitizers, etc.), experience debugging distributed and parallel applications (deadlocks, livelocks, race conditions, etc.), deep understanding of computer architectures (instruction pipelining, multithreading, networking, etc.)
- Operations & Monitoring: Strong background in monitoring and reliability engineering (incident response, post-mortem analysis, etc.)
- Leadership & Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to recruit and retain high-performing teams, mentor engineers, and partner cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing products.
Why Join Cerebras
People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
- Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
- Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
- Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
Read our blog: Five Reasons to Join Cerebras in 2026.
Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!
Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.
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CoDesign & NextGen - New College Grad
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Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs.
Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.
Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.
About The Role
Skills & Qualifications
- MS/BS in Computer Engineer, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
- Strong background in computer architecture
- Strong analytical and problem solving mindset
- Exposure to CPU/GPU Architecture and programming models
- Experience working on CPU/GPU simulators
- Exposure to performance profiling and debug on any system pipeline
- Experience with C++ and Python
- Exposure to and basic understanding of machine learning is desired
Location
This is a full-time, in-office position based in Sunnyvale, CA. We offer relocation support for candidates relocating to the Bay Area.
Base salary range: $145,000-$155,000 annually, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications, plus equity.
Why Join Cerebras
People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
- Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
- Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
- Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
Read our blog: Five Reasons to Join Cerebras in 2026.
Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!
Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.
This website or its third-party tools process personal data. For more details, click here to review our CCPA disclosure notice.
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Performance & Reliability Engineer
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Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs.
Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.
Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.
- Characterize and enhance the performance and reliability of advanced ML hardware/software systems, with emphasis on reducing power and thermal fluctuations.
- Analyze ML workloads, software kernels, and hardware architecture for power and performance impacts, and synthesize high-level insights across these layers.
- Develop creative software solutions to improve reliability and performance, collaborating cross-functionally to deploy these solutions in production.
- Influence the design of Cerebras' next-generation AI architecture and software stack through rigorous workload analysis and computational efficiency optimization.
- Partner with ML engineers, researchers, and reliability specialists to understand model behavior and drive system-level improvements from a software perspective.
- Collaborate with teams in architecture, silicon, and research to advance our computational platforms and influence future system designs.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in performance engineering, reliability, computer architecture, and/or software design.
- Proficiency in Python or other scripting languages.
- Experience with C/C++ and assembly programming.
- Demonstrated expertise with system-level performance and reliability optimization.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Nice to have: Hands-on experience with ML models, ML frameworks, and collective communication.
- Nice to have: Understanding of thermal management principles and power delivery for advanced semiconductors.
Why Join Cerebras
People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
- Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
- Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
- Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
Read our blog: Five Reasons to Join Cerebras in 2026.
Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!
Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.
This website or its third-party tools process personal data. For more details, click here to review our CCPA disclosure notice.
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Performance Engineer
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Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs.
Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.
Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.
- Focus on CPU and memory subsystem optimizations for our Runtime software driver, enabling faster key cloud and ML training/inference workloads across modern x86 machines that form the backbone of our AI accelerator.
- Develop and enhance algorithms for efficient data movement, local data processing, job submission, and synchronization between various software and hardware components.
- Optimize our workloads using advanced CPU features like AVX instructions, prefetch mechanisms, and cache optimization techniques.
- Perform performance profiling and characterization using tools such as AMD uprof, and reduce OS level overheads.
- Influence the design of Cerebras' next-generation AI architectures and software stack by analyzing the integration of advanced CPU features and their impact on system performance and computational efficiency.
- Engage directly with the AI and ML developer community to understand their needs and solve contemporary challenges with innovative solutions.
- Collaborate with multiple teams within Cerebras, including architecture, research, and product management, to elevate our computational platform and influence future designs.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in performance engineering, particularly in optimizing algorithms and software design.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ and familiarity with Python or other scripting languages.
- Demonstrated experience with memory subsystem optimizations and system-level performance tuning.
- Experience with distributed systems is highly desirable, as it is crucial to optimizing the performance of our Runtime software across multiple x86 hosts.
- Familiarity with compiler technologies (e.g., LLVM, MLIR) and with PyTorch and other ML frameworks.
Why Join Cerebras
People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
- Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
- Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
- Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
Read our blog: Five Reasons to Join Cerebras in 2026.
Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!
Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.
This website or its third-party tools process personal data. For more details, click here to review our CCPA disclosure notice.
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