AI Inference Core SDET Lead - Release Quality

Cerebras Systems; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems is seeking a hands-on SDET Technical Lead to establish and lead Release Integration Testing within AI Inference Core. You will define the quality strategy across pre-release to post-release, working across AI frameworks, runtime, compiler, kernels, distributed systems, infrastructure, and hardware to make release risk visible and actionable.

This technical-leadership role involves designing test architecture, mentoring engineers, and writing software and automation to ensure

Qualifications

• Strong software-engineering fundamentals and programming in Python, C++, Go.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in software quality, test infrastructure, systems validation, release engineering, or complex software integration.
• Experience designing automation and test architecture for distributed, systems-level, infrastructure, or AI software.
• Proven ability to break down ambiguous cross-stack failures, form hypotheses, gather evidence, and drive issues to resolution.
• Strong understanding of risk-based testing, release readiness, regression strategy, failure analysis, and quality metrics.
• Ability to influence and align multiple engineering teams without relying solely on organizational authority.
• Clear communication and sound judgment during high-pressuer release situations, including the ability to explain technical risk to engineering and leadership audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define the RIT strategy, engagement criteria, ownership boundaries, entry and exit criteria, coverage expectations, and escalation thresholds for AI Inference Core.
• Engage early on high-risk inference changes; identify dependencies and interaction risks across runtime, host, device programming, memory, scheduling, model execution, infrastructure, and hardware.
• Own the inference-path readiness gate by reviewing unit, simulation, benchmark, feature-test, and integration evidence, documenting gaps, and approving integration readiness before release entry.
• Lead integrated inference E2E validation across features and the cloud-to-wafer stack; promote durable feature tests and add risk-based scenarios to release regression.
• Improve master and release-branch stability through actionable health metrics, failure classification, release-quality reporting, dashboards, qualification workflows, and release pipelines.
• Lead first-pass regression and rollout triage, coordinate owners through resolution, drive RCA, place missing coverage at the correct layer, and plan rollout across multiple product and release projects.
• Partner with and mentor SDETs, feature teams, Integration, Core Infra, release owners, and deployment teams; between active engagements, advance automation efficiency, diagnostics, probes, and roadmap test planning.

Skills

Python

C++

Go

Test automation

Distributed systems

Debugging

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Cerebras Systems is seeking a hands-on SDET Technical Lead to establish and lead Release Integration Testing within AI Inference Core. You will define the quality strategy across pre-release to post-release, working across AI frameworks, runtime, compiler, kernels, distributed systems, infrastructure, and hardware to make release risk visible and actionable.

This technical-leadership role involves designing test architecture, mentoring engineers, and writing software and automation to ensure