[Hiring] Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer) @Cerebras Systems

Role Description

Cerebras Systems Inc. has multiple openings for Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer).

• Implement infrastructure to support high-performance, low-latency inference service.
• Deploy and configure Kubernetes services to ensure scalability and reliability of inference workloads.
• Optimize resource allocation and auto-scaling policies to handle variable inference demand while minimizing operational costs.
• Integrate inference services with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes for orchestration.
• Ensure high availability and fault tolerance by implementing multi-region deployments and disaster recovery strategies.
• Develop Python-based scripts and APIs to streamline data preprocessing, inference execution, and post-processing for real-time inference tasks.
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers to validate inference accuracy and performance against functional and latency requirements.
• Triage and resolve defects in the service by analyzing logs, metrics, and distributed traces.
• Debug issues related to model deployment, container orchestration, or networking configurations, documenting steps to reproduce and root-cause defects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address performance regressions, scalability issues, or integration failures in the inference pipeline.
• Develop automated scripts to detect and mitigate common failure modes, improving system reliability.
• Author detailed technical documentation for infrastructure configurations, inference workflows, and APIs, ensuring clarity for internal teams and external customers.
• Work with product management and user experience teams to define requirements for inference service interfaces, including configuration, monitoring, and event logging.
• Document and track defects, enhancements, and release notes using tools like Jira and Git, ensuring version control and traceability.
• Participate in release planning and prioritization discussions to align infrastructure development with customer needs and business objectives.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field.
• 1 year of experience as Software Developer, Student/Intern (Software Developer), Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer), Software Engineer, or a related occupation.
• Employer accepts full-time or equivalent part-time experience gained before, during or after graduate studies.

Requirements

• Docker and Kubernetes
• Java or C++
• ActiveMQ and Kafka
• Python or Groovy
• JavaScript or TypeScript
• Linux
• SQL, OracleDB, and Redis
• Git

Benefits

• 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.

Company Description

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.