<div class="content-intro"><p><span data-contrast="none">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. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559685":0,"335559737":240,"335559738":240,"335559739":240,"335559740":279}"> </span></p> <p>Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. <a href="https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/">OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras</a>, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference. </p> <p>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.</p></div><p><span data-contrast="auto">In late 2024, we launched Cerebras Inference, the fastest Generative AI inference service in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference. Since launch, we’ve scaled to meet the surging demand from AI labs, enterprises, and a thriving developer community.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">In October 2025, we announced our series G funding, raising $1.1 billion USD to accelerate the expansion of our products and services to meet global AI demand.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About the team</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">The Cerebras Inference team’s mission is to deliver the world’s most performant, secure, and reliable enterprise-grade AI service. We build and operate large-scale distributed systems that power AI inference at unprecedented speed and efficiency. Join us to help scale inference and accelerate AI.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About the role</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We’re looking for a hands-on Reliability Tech Lead (IC) to own the mission of making Cerebras Inference the most reliable AI service in the world. You will drive reliability strategy and execution across our inference stack, from client SDKs and public-cloud multi-region deployments to wafer-scale systems in specialized data centers.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">In this role, you will define SLOs and incident-response frameworks, design and implement reliability mechanisms at scale, and partner across hundreds of engineers to ensure our service meets world-class reliability standards.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">If you are passionate about building and operating massive-scale, low-latency, high-reliability distributed systems, we want to hear from you.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Define and drive reliability strategy: establish SLOs and ensure alignment across engineering.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Design and implement reliability mechanisms: build and evolve systems for fault detection, graceful degradation, failover, throttling, and recovery across multiple regions and data centers.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Lead large-scale incident management: own postmortems, root-cause analysis, and prevention loops for reliability-related incidents.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Architect for reliability and observability: influence system design for redundancy, durability, and debuggability.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Develop reliability tooling: create internal tools and frameworks for chaos testing, load simulation, and distributed fault injection.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Collaborate broadly: work across software, infrastructure, and hardware teams to ensure reliability is embedded into every layer of our inference service.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Monitor and communicate reliability metrics: build dashboards and alerts that measure service health and provide actionable insights.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Mentor and influence: guide engineers and set best practices for designing, testing, and operating reliable large-scale systems.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Skills & Qualifications:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or reliability engineering for large-scale distributed systems.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong programming skills in at least one popular backend programming language such as Python, C++, Go, or Rust.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Deep and hard-earned experience of reliability principles: SLO/SLI/SLA design, incident response, and postmortem culture.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Bonus: prior experience building large-scale AI infrastructure systems.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><h4><strong>Why Join Cerebras</strong></h4> <p>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:</p> <ol> <li>Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.</li> <li>Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.</li> <li>Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.</li> <li>Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.</li> <li>Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.</li> </ol> <p>Read our blog: <a href="https://www.cerebras.net/blog/5-reasons-to-join-cerebras" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Five Reasons to Join Cerebras in 2026.</a></p> <h4>Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!</h4> <hr> <p><em>Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. </em><em>We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. </em><em>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.</em></p> <hr> <p><em>This website or its third-party tools process personal data. For more details, click <a href="https://www.cerebras.net/privacy/" target="_blank">here</a> to review our CCPA disclosure notice.</em></p></div>