Cerebras Systems
Distributed Systems Security Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA · Senior
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About the role
- 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.
- OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/ with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.
Responsibilities
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, networking, and hardware teams to identify gaps and deliver end-to-end solutions improving the overall security maturity of the environment
- Work with engineering leads and architects to bake secure design in from the beginning
- Balance engineering outcomes with security controls, enabling the company to deliver securely quickly
- Document security posture and strategy for technical and nontechnical audiences from both 1p and 3p perspectives
- People who are serious about software make their own hardware.
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
- We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies.
Requirements
- 8-10 years of experience with heterogenous compute environments, kubernetes hardening, and general networked system security
- 10+ years with HPCs (high performance clusters)
- Ability to work in fragmented ecosystems, hardening both modern k8s deployments as well as bare metal instances
- Strong written communication skills, with the ability to make security concepts approachable for non-specialists.
- Strong hands-on engineering abilities in on-prem and cloud environments
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed compute systems a plus
Skills
- Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
- Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
- Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
- Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
- Develop threat models for each part of the cluster stack, outlining trust boundaries and the interplay between first and third-party mechanisms
- At Cerebras, we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry.
- Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!
Equal opportunity
- Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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