Kernel Reliability Engineer

Cerebras; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems in the United States is seeking a deeply technical, hands-on software engineer to join our on-field Kernel Reliability team. You’ll work close to the code, design solutions that scale with our production services, and help improve reliability across inference, training, and internal tooling.

You will collaborate with System and Cluster Operations, Debug Team, and ASIC/hardware groups to reduce downtime, speed up failure analysis, and co-design future architectures for

Qualifications

• Required (or demonstrated through projects/internships/coursework): Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python.
• Solid foundations in operating systems, computer architecture, and systems programming fundamentals.
• Ability to debug complex issues using logs, traces, and standard debugging workflows; interest in root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical roadmap and execution for kernel-centric reliability of our internal and customer-facing systems.
• Partner with System and Cluster Operations teams to reduce system and service downtime after failure through tooling, analysis, and hands-on debugging support.
• Work with the Debug Team to enhance debug tools with the goal of speeding up failure analysis.
• Collaborate with software teams to improve the software stack—including kernels—to improve on-field debugging and failure analysis.
• Work with ASIC and hardware architecture teams to co-design next-generation architectures with reliability and ease of debug in mind.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems; drive follow-ups that measurably improve reliability over time.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Operating systems

Computer architecture

Systems programming

Debugging

Root-cause analysis

Tools

Debuggers

Core dump handling

Tracing

Sanitizers

Profilers

Job description

Cerebras Systems in the United States is seeking a deeply technical, hands-on software engineer to join our on-field Kernel Reliability team. You’ll work close to the code, design solutions that scale with our production services, and help improve reliability across inference, training, and internal tooling.

You will collaborate with System and Cluster Operations, Debug Team, and ASIC/hardware groups to reduce downtime, speed up failure analysis, and co-design future architectures for