Senior SDET, Inference Platform

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems is seeking a seasoned software engineer to join the Inference Service Quality team. You will design, build, and maintain test infrastructure and automation for deploying and validating the Cerebras Inference Platform.

You will validate across environments—from cloud-managed Kubernetes to Cerebras hardware—while improving observability and debugging workflows to ensure reliable, production-ready releases.

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 with both is a plus).
• Experience building automation tools, testing frameworks, or internal developer tooling.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins).
• Experience debugging complex systems, distributed services, or networked infrastructure.
• Familiarity with systems-level development, infrastructure tooling, or platform integration.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate issues across multiple system and infrastructure layers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers

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

Automation tools

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Systems engineering

Problem solving

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Jenkins

Bazel

k9s

NGINX

Job description

About the Role

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services.

This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.

Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.

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.

Minimum Skills & 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 with both is a plus).
• Experience building automation tools, testing frameworks, or internal developer tooling.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins)
• Experience debugging complex systems, distributed services, or networked infrastructure.
• Familiarity with systems-level development, infrastructure tooling, or platform integration.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate issues across multiple system and infrastructure layers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in a real production or staging environment.
• Experience with cloud-managed Kubernetes such as Amazon EKS.
• Experience with GitOps/deployment tooling (e.g., ArgoCD).
• Familiarity with ingress controllers, service discovery, NGINX, and load balancing.
• Experience with build systems such as Bazel.
• Experience with cluster tooling and operations (e.g., k9s).
• Exposure to performance debugging, profiling, or system observability tools.
• Experience with ML inference infrastructure, model serving systems, or GPU-accelerated workloads

Location: Toronto / Sunnyvale

Team: Inference Service Quality

Why Join Cerebras

People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras, we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:

1. Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
2. Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
3. Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
4. Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
5. Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.

Find out more about what it's like to work at Cerebras here!

Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.