Cerebras Systems
Software Engineer, Kernel Reliability
Sunnyvale CA or Toronto Canada
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 97 days ago
C++Machine LearningLLMsIncident ResponseCompliance
About the role
- We're looking for a deeply technical, hands-on software engineer to join our on-field Kernel Reliability team.
- You'll help tackle a critical challenge: improving the reliability of our advanced compute clusters and the underlying inference, training, and internal production services.
Responsibilities
- Partner with System and Cluster Operations teams to reduce system and service downtime after failure through tooling, analysis, and hands-on debugging support.
- 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.
- drive follow-ups that measurably improve reliability over time.
Requirements
- Ability to debug complex issues using logs, traces, and standard debugging workflows
- familiarity with monitoring, incident response, and post-mortem culture.
- Required (or demonstrated through projects/internships/coursework):
Nice to have
- Exposure to parallel and distributed programming (message passing, multicore, GPU, embedded, etc.).
- Familiarity with debugging distributed and parallel applications (deadlocks, livelocks, race conditions, etc.).
- Knowledge of computer architecture concepts (instruction pipelining, multithreading, networking, memory systems, etc.).
- Operations & Monitoring: familiarity with monitoring, incident response, and post-mortem culture.
- Why Join Cerebras
- 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:
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
Skills
- Five Reasons to Join Cerebras in 2026.
- Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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Company info
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
- Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
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