Cerebras Systems
Senior Detection and Response 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
- Lead the design and optimization of detections, playbooks, and workflows to quickly identify and respond to potential incidents.
- Lead investigations and coordinated response for complex security events, including on-call responsibilities.
- Own key areas of the detection and response program and provide technical leadership to broader team initiatives.
- Build automation and integrations that reduce toil and make investigation and response faster and more consistent.
- Build and maintain detection and response capabilities as code, setting standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
- Maintain clear runbooks and technical documentation, and mentor other engineers in effective detection and response practices.
- Experience building and operating production security tooling and automation, with strong fundamentals in reliability and data quality.
- Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to set technical direction, create clear documentation, and mentor other engineers.
- People who are serious about software make their own hardware.
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, or security engineering, with demonstrated ownership of complex technical initiatives.
Skills
- Strong proficiency in Python and query languages such as SQL, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Deep practical knowledge of detection and response across cloud, identity, and endpoint environments.
- Experience leading complex investigations and translating attacker behavior into durable detection and response improvements.
- Strong fundamentals in operating systems, networking, log analysis, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.
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.
- 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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