Cerebras currently has 38 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 79%, are focused on serving infrastructure. The top hiring function is Engineering, with 32 roles. The company is actively hiring in the United States and Canada. Frequent tech tags include model_serving and inference_infra. In the last 30 days, Cerebras posted 4 new AI roles, representing a 20% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 36 active AI roles, up 46% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Serve · Engineering. Salary range $170k–$250k (avg $206k).
Cerebras currently has 39 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Kernel Engineer (2), ML Systems Performance Engineer (2), LLM Inference Performance & Evals Engineer, AI Infrastructure Operations Engineer, AI Models, Product Manager. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Cerebras's active AI hiring is concentrated in: serving infrastructure (85%), post-training (8%), pre-training (5%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Cerebras is hiring AI talent in: United States (23 roles), Canada (20 roles), India (6 roles), United Arab Emirates (3 roles).
Job postings at Cerebras most frequently reference: model serving, inference infra, fine tuning, llm observability, frontier research.
In the past 30 days, Cerebras has posted 4 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Technology: R&D Engineer - AI/ML, HPC Research Engineer role focused on designing and implementing AI/ML workloads on Cerebras' wafer-scale hardware, optimizing performance, and contributing to future hardware/software roadmaps. Involves algorithm-hardware co-design, performance modeling, and publishing research. | Serve | 9 |
| Kernel Engineer The Kernel Engineer will develop high-performance software solutions for AI and HPC workloads, focusing on implementing, optimizing, and scaling deep learning operations on Cerebras' custom hardware. This involves designing, developing, and debugging low-level kernels and algorithms to maximize compute utilization and training efficiency, while also studying emerging ML trends and interacting with hardware architects. | ServePost-train |
| 9 |
| Staff Inference ML Runtime Engineer Staff Inference ML Runtime Engineer at Cerebras Systems, focusing on optimizing and scaling their wafer-scale AI chip for high-throughput, low-latency generative AI inference. The role involves designing and implementing ML features, APIs, and distributed runtime solutions, working with state-of-the-art generative AI models and multimodal data. | Serve | 9 |
| Senior Runtime Engineer Senior Runtime Engineer role at Cerebras, focusing on designing and developing high-performance distributed software for large-scale AI training and inference workloads on their wafer-scale architecture. The role involves optimizing compute and data pipelines, ensuring scalability, and collaborating with ML and compiler teams. Requires strong C++ and distributed systems experience, with familiarity in ML pipelines preferred. | ServeAgent | 9 |
| LLM Inference Performance & Evals Engineer Cerebras is seeking an LLM Inference Performance & Evals Engineer to optimize and validate state-of-the-art models on their wafer-scale AI hardware. The role involves prototyping architectural tweaks, building performance-evaluation pipelines, and collaborating with hardware and software teams to accelerate new model ideas and improve inference speeds. | ServeEval Gate | 9 |
| Full Stack LLM Engineer Cerebras is seeking a Full Stack LLM Engineer to join their Inference Core Model Bringup team. This role involves bringing up state-of-the-art open-source and proprietary models on Cerebras CSX systems, working across the entire software stack from model translation and compiler optimizations to runtime integration and performance tuning. The engineer will debug performance and correctness issues and propose improvements to tools and automation. Experience with deep learning frameworks, model internals, C/C++, and compiler development (LLVM/MLIR) is required. | Serve | 9 |
| Engineering Manager, Inference ML Runtime Engineering Manager for Inference ML Runtime at Cerebras, leading a team to design and scale systems for executing state-of-the-art AI models on Cerebras hardware. The role focuses on ML, distributed systems, and high-performance runtime engineering, with a goal of delivering the fastest Generative AI inference solution. | Serve | 8 |
| ML Performance Benchmarking Engineer ML Performance Benchmarking Engineer role focused on optimizing AI inference performance on Cerebras' wafer-scale architecture. Responsibilities include building observability and benchmarking infrastructure, performance analysis, and integrating new inference features. Requires strong Python/C++ and infrastructure scaling experience, with a focus on complex, large-scale systems. | Serve | 8 |
| ML Systems Performance Engineer ML Systems Performance Engineer at Cerebras, focusing on optimizing end-to-end model inference speed and throughput on their wafer-scale AI chip. Responsibilities include kernel optimization, system performance analysis, and developing performance modeling and diagnostic tools. | Serve | 8 |
| Advanced Technology: Compiler Engineer Cerebras is seeking a Compiler Engineer to work on their Tungsten language compiler, which is purpose-built for their wafer-scale AI hardware. The role involves designing and implementing compiler passes, co-designing language constructs, and developing code generation strategies for AI and scientific workloads. The engineer will collaborate with ASIC, kernel, and AI teams, and contribute to the broader toolchain including runtime and debuggers. Experience with novel architectures and ML compiler frameworks is valuable. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior ML Software Engineer - Integration & Quality Senior ML Software Engineer focused on integrating and validating the software stack for the Cerebras AI platform, ensuring reliable and efficient execution of large-scale ML workloads. This role involves debugging complex distributed systems, improving automation, and enhancing the reliability of AI infrastructure, working closely with runtime, compiler, kernel, and hardware teams. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Engineer, AI Inference Reliability Principal Engineer, AI Inference Reliability at Cerebras, focusing on ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of their large-scale AI inference services built on wafer-scale architecture. The role involves defining reliability strategy, implementing mechanisms for fault tolerance, leading incident management, and collaborating across engineering teams to meet world-class reliability standards. | Serve | 7 |
| Site Reliability Engineer - Ops & Automation Cerebras is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support their high-performance AI inference services powered by the Wafer-Scale Engine. The role involves operational execution, developing self-service CD pipelines, building automation tools, and enhancing observability for large-scale AI infrastructure. The position requires production Kubernetes experience and proficiency in Python or Go. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Automation and Platform Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on building and scaling high-performance SRE functions for Cerebras' AI inference services, powered by their Wafer-Scale Engine. The role involves leading engineering efforts to implement self-service delivery pipelines, shared observability tooling, and GitOps-driven CD for model releases and cluster management. The goal is to enable core teams, product managers, and external customers to operate in a fully self-service model with strong reliability guarantees, while also mentoring early-career SREs. The role emphasizes turning complexity into reliability at scale for frontier AI inference. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Engineer, Inference Cloud Principal Engineer for Cerebras' Inference Cloud Platform, focusing on availability, latency, reliability, and multi-region scale for their AI chip-based inference solution. This senior IC role involves defining long-term architecture, driving execution on critical paths, and contributing production code for large-scale distributed systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Performance Engineer The role focuses on optimizing the performance of Cerebras' Runtime software driver, which runs on x86 machines and supports their AI accelerator chip. Responsibilities include CPU and memory subsystem optimizations, developing efficient data movement algorithms, utilizing advanced CPU features, performance profiling, and influencing future hardware/software designs. The role requires strong C/C++ skills and experience in performance engineering and system-level tuning. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Inference Cloud Staff Software Engineer role focused on building and operating the Inference Cloud Platform, responsible for availability, latency, reliability, and global scale of AI inference workloads. Requires deep expertise in distributed systems, high-QPS optimization, and experience with ML inference infrastructure. | Serve | 7 |
| AI Infrastructure Operations Engineer The AI Infrastructure Operations Engineer will manage and operate Cerebras' advanced AI compute clusters, ensuring their health, performance, and availability. This role focuses on maximizing compute capacity, deploying container-based services, and providing 24/7 monitoring and support for large-scale machine learning infrastructure. | Serve | 7 |