Hardware Systems Debug Engineer: Root-Cause Expert

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an Electrical Engineer to bring the world’s largest compute systems from design to production and maintain them in the field. You will diagnose multi-domain failures down to silicon, PCB, component, or system level, and feed learnings back into next-generation Cerebras hardware.

The role requires remote diagnosis of deployed systems using Linux tools, logs, and telemetry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 3-5+ years of experience in hardware bring-up, system integration, board/system debug, or failure analysis.
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem‑solving skills, grounded in first principles.
• Hands‑on experience with oscilloscopes and standard electrical bench instrumentation.
• Scripting experience, preferably Python, for data analysis and automation.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical findings into clear, concise insights.

Responsibilities

• Characterize failure signatures and perform hands‑on troubleshooting at the system, board, and component level.
• Drive failure analysis to root cause—down to silicon, PCB, or external components—using structured, first‑principles problem solving.
• Remotely diagnose failures in deployed systems using Linux command‑line tools, system logs, telemetry, diagnostic utilities, and remote‑access workflows.
• Analyze and document results clearly, and provide actionable recommendations to design and manufacturing teams.
• Interface across internal groups (ASIC, systems, and manufacturing) and with external vendors to resolve issues and close corrective actions.
• Participate in design reviews for next‑generation systems, contributing recommendations spanning electrical design‑for‑test (DFT), mechanical, and thermal improvements.

Skills

Scripting (Python)

Diagnostics / Troubleshooting

Root-cause Analysis

Hardware bring-up

Linux command line

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Bench instrumentation

Job description

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an Electrical Engineer to bring the world’s largest compute systems from design to production and maintain them in the field. You will diagnose multi-domain failures down to silicon, PCB, component, or system level, and feed learnings back into next-generation Cerebras hardware.

The role requires remote diagnosis of deployed systems using Linux tools, logs, and telemetry.