Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Systems

ML Systems Performance Engineer

Sunnyvale CA or Toronto Canada

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 71 days ago
C++AlgorithmsMachine LearningDeep LearningLLMsComplianceElectrical EngineeringProblem Solving

About the role

  • Engineers on the inference performance team operate at the intersection of hardware and software, driving end-to-end model inference speed and throughput.
  • Their work spans low-level kernel performance debugging and optimization, system-level performance analysis, performance modeling and estimation, and the development of tooling for performance projection and diagnostics.

Responsibilities

  • Build performance models (kernel-level, end-to-end) to estimate the performance of state of the art and customer ML models.
  • Optimize and debug our kernel micro code and compiler algorithms to elevate ML model inference speed, throughput and compute utilization on the Cerebras WSE.
  • Develop tools and infrastructure to help visualize performance data collected from the Wafer Scale Engine and our compute cluster.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in a relevant domain (Computer Architecture, CPU/GPU Performance, Kernel Optimization, HPC).
  • Experience working on CPU/GPU simulators.
  • Comfort with C++ and Python.

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.
  • 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.

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