Principal Engineer, Inference Cloud

Cerebras Systems

Sunnyvale, CA, United States
On-site
Multi-region traffic architecture
Graceful degradation under bursty ai workloads
High-qps performance
Cerebras Systems is seeking a Principal Engineer for their Inference Cloud Platform in Sunnyvale, CA. The role involves defining technical direction, solving complex platform problems, and ensuring reliability and performance in a cutting-edge AI environment

Job Summary

  • This team owns the cloud layer behind our Inference Service, including availability, latency, reliability, and multi-region scale.
  • This is one of the most senior IC roles on the team, for someone who can identify the highest-leverage platform problems, set direction across multiple teams, define long-term architecture, and write production code on critical paths.
  • The scope includes multi-region traffic architecture, graceful degradation under bursty AI workloads, high-QPS performance, and the operating model for a platform that needs to remain fast and available under changing demand.

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Cerebras Systems is seeking a Principal Engineer for their Inference Cloud Platform in Sunnyvale, CA. The role involves defining technical direction, solving complex platform problems, and ensuring reliability and performance in a cutting-edge AI environment.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • multi-region traffic architecture
  • graceful degradation under bursty AI workloads
  • high-QPS performance
  • availability, latency, reliability
  • production code on critical paths

Nice-to-have

  • identify highest-leverage platform problems
  • set direction across multiple teams
  • define long-term architecture
  • drive execution without a clear spec

Key Requirements

  • Senior IC role
  • Identify technical problems
  • Make tradeoff decisions
  • Set long-term technical direction
  • Architect active-active systems
  • Contribute production code
  • Review designs and implementations

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