AI Inference Core: Cross‑Stack Software Integration Engineer

Cerebras; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Software Integration Ninja to join the AI Inference Core team. This role sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure, distributed systems, compilers, runtimes, kernels, and hardware/software co-design.

You will help take ambitious ideas from concept to working reality across the Cerebras inference stack, integrating and validating cross-component projects of high complexity with accelerated timelines and close collaboration across AI, runtime, compiler, kernel,

Qualifications

• Strong software-engineering fundamentals and programming ability in Python, C++, Go, or a similar language.
• Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous technical problems, form hypotheses, gather evidence, and drive issues to resolution.
• Experience—through professional work, internships, research, academic projects, open source, or equivalent hands‑on work—building or debugging software systems.
• Curiosity about how complex systems behave across component boundaries.
• Willingness to read unfamiliar code, learn new layers of the stack, and take ownership beyond a narrowly defined area.
• Ability to work hard and stay effective during periods of uncertainty, rapid change, and accelerated delivery.
• Clear communication and strong collaboration across disciplines and levels of experience.

Responsibilities

• Turn new inference ideas and features into integrated, working capabilities across the Cerebras platform.
• Take high-value projects from zero to one—from an incomplete idea or prototype to a working, validated capability.
• Integrate and validate software components spanning AI frameworks, runtime, compiler, kernels, distributed systems, and hardware.
• Drive cross-component projects of high complexity from problem definition through integration, validation, and release readiness.
• Collaborate closely with software and hardware engineers to make co-design trade-offs and resolve system-level issues.
• Investigate and debug difficult failures across large-scale AI workloads, distributed software, infrastructure, and hardware boundaries.
• Work effectively on accelerated timelines while keeping technical risks, dependencies, and decisions visible.
• Participate in focused daily syncs, manage rapidly changing priorities, and drive ambiguous situations toward concrete outcomes.
• Identify bottlenecks, failure modes, edge cases, and integration gaps that affect inference correctness, performance, or delivery.
• Capture the essential lessons from urgent work so the next integration is faster and less chaotic.
• Create momentum beyond your own work by helping teammates move faster, make better decisions, and close difficult problems together.

Skills

Python

C++

Go

Debugging

Communication

Job description

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Software Integration Ninja to join the AI Inference Core team. This role sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure, distributed systems, compilers, runtimes, kernels, and hardware/software co-design.

You will help take ambitious ideas from concept to working reality across the Cerebras inference stack, integrating and validating cross-component projects of high complexity with accelerated timelines and close collaboration across AI, runtime, compiler, kernel,