Senior AI Inference Platform QA Engineer

Cerebras Systems; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems is seeking an Inference Platform SDET to join the Inference Service Quality team. You will own the quality and reliability of the infrastructure that deploys and runs the Cerebras Inference Platform—from CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes-based deployments, ingress, load balancing, and service discovery—to ensure fast, reliable, and production-ready performance.

You will validate the platform across cloud and Cerebras hardware, collaborating with the development team to catch issues

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, QA/quality engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure development.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go.
• Experience building automation tools, testing frameworks, or internal developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain test infrastructure and automation for deploying and validating the Cerebras Inference Platform.
• Validate the platform across environments — from cloud-managed Kubernetes to deployments running on Cerebras hardware.
• Test and verify deployment infrastructure including Kubernetes workloads, CI/CD pipelines, ingress and service discovery, NGINX, and load balancing.
• Collaborate closely with the Inference Platform development team to ensure new features and platform capabilities ship reliably.
• Investigate and debug complex issues spanning networking, orchestration, deployment, and distributed services.
• Develop and maintain testbeds used to validate platform performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Identify failure points, bottlenecks, and edge cases that impact platform stability and inference performance.
• Contribute to test plans and validation strategies for new platform features and releases.
• Improve observability, diagnostics, and debugging workflows across the inference platform stack.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure high-quality, production-ready releases of the Cerebras Inference Platform.

Skills

Python

Go

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Automation tools

Debugging

Systems programming

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Bazel

k9s

NGINX

Job description

Cerebras Systems is seeking an Inference Platform SDET to join the Inference Service Quality team. You will own the quality and reliability of the infrastructure that deploys and runs the Cerebras Inference Platform—from CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes-based deployments, ingress, load balancing, and service discovery—to ensure fast, reliable, and production-ready performance.

You will validate the platform across cloud and Cerebras hardware, collaborating with the development team to catch issues