Cerebras Systems tech stack

Cerebras Systems builds mostly with Python, C++, Go, SQL. Its stack also includes OpenAI, Kubernetes, PyTorch, PyTorch C++. OpenAI is named in 150 of the 150 job postings Cerebras Systems published in the last 12 months (100%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Cerebras Systems, updated Sep 28, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 28, 2026
Technologies in use
189
Postings analysed
150
Open now
106
Modernity
78 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Cerebras Systems use?

Python is named in 63% of job postings at Cerebras Systems, followed by C++ (27%), Go (11%), SQL (7%).

Python 95 63% required in 93% · 68 open now · since Jul 2024
C++ 41 27% required in 98% · 31 open now · since Jul 2024
Go 16 11% required in 94% · 13 open now · since Jul 2024
SQL 10 7% required in 90% · 5 open now · since Jan 2026
SystemVerilog 7 5% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Nov 2025
JavaScript 7 5% required in 71% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
Perl 6 4% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Nov 2025
TypeScript 5 3% required in 100% · 5 open now · since May 2026
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Rust3
Verilog3
Bash2
Java2
Node JS1
PowerShell1
Apex1
Assembly1
C#1

What frameworks and libraries does Cerebras Systems use?

PyTorch is named in 12% of job postings at Cerebras Systems, followed by PyTorch C++ (10%), SGLang (5%), TensorFlow (5%).

PyTorch 18 12% required in 56% · 13 open now · since Jul 2025
PyTorch C++ 15 10% required in 47% · 10 open now · since Jul 2025
SGLang 8 5% required in 88% · 4 open now · since Oct 2025
TensorFlow 7 5% required in 14% · 5 open now · since Jul 2025
TensorFlow C++ 7 5% required in 14% · 5 open now · since Jul 2025
TensorRT-LLM 6 4% required in 83% · 3 open now · since Sep 2025
Triton 6 4% required in 67% · 4 open now · since Nov 2025
UVM 5 3% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Nov 2025
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ROCm5
Ray4
Transformers4
CUDA4
Next.js3
Pytest3
React.js3
NCCL2
JAX2
Apache TVM1
Flask1
LangChain1
MLIR1
Selenium1
XLA1
Asyncio1
Dagster1
FSDP1
Flink1
Megatron-LM1
OpenCL1

What databases does Cerebras Systems use?

PostgreSQL is named in 3% of job postings at Cerebras Systems, followed by Redis (3%), MySQL (1%), InfluxDB (1%).

PostgreSQL 5 3% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Mar 2026
Redis 5 3% required in 100% · 4 open now · since May 2026
MySQL 2 1% required in 100% · since Jan 2026
InfluxDB 2 1% required in 50% · 1 open now · since Oct 2025
ElasticSearch 1 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since May 2026
Oracle 1 1% required in 100% · since Jul 2026
Amazon Redshift 1 1% optional · since Aug 2026
BigQuery 1 1% optional · since Aug 2026
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Google BigQuery1
Snowflake1

What cloud and platforms does Cerebras Systems use?

OpenAI is named in 100% of job postings at Cerebras Systems, followed by Kubernetes (22%), AWS (19%), Linux (18%).

OpenAI 150 100% required in 100% · 106 open now · since Jul 2024
Kubernetes 33 22% required in 88% · 28 open now · since Mar 2025
AWS 28 19% required in 79% · 21 open now · since Jan 2026
Linux 27 18% required in 93% · 19 open now · since Nov 2025
Grafana 12 8% required in 83% · 10 open now · since Oct 2025
vLLM 8 5% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Sep 2025
GCP 8 5% required in 50% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
Azure 7 5% required in 43% · 5 open now · since Mar 2026
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Hugging Face4
CUDA Toolkit4
Unix3
GitHub3
Okta3
Cloudflare2
AWS Lambda2
Amazon EKS2
Apache Kafka2
Spark2
Microsoft Entra ID2
AWS Fargate1
ActiveMQ1
Amazon CloudWatch1
Amazon EC21
Amazon ECS1
Anthropic1
CentOS Stream1
Kibana1
Looker1
MuleSoft1
PagerDuty1
Red Hat1
TGI1
Tableau1
Ubuntu1
Windows1
CoreWeave1
Databricks1

What developer tools does Cerebras Systems use?

Terraform is named in 8% of job postings at Cerebras Systems, followed by Ansible (7%), Prometheus (7%), Jenkins (6%).

Terraform 12 8% required in 92% · 11 open now · since Mar 2026
Ansible 10 7% required in 90% · 8 open now · since Mar 2026
Prometheus 10 7% required in 90% · 8 open now · since Oct 2025
Jenkins 9 6% required in 78% · 5 open now · since Feb 2026
Docker 8 5% required in 75% · 6 open now · since May 2026
TPU 8 5% required in 75% · 7 open now · since Feb 2026
Git 6 4% required in 100% · 6 open now · since May 2026
TensorRT 6 4% required in 33% · 3 open now · since Sep 2025
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InfiniBand5
Microsoft Excel4
Rest API4
ArgoCD4
Model Context Protocol3
Triton Inference Server3
Wireshark3
gRPC3
GraphQL2
Helm2
Bazel2
AWS CDK1
AWS Trainium1
Altium Designer1
Cadence Allegro1
CloudFormation1
JMeter1
LLVM1
Logstash1
Loki1
Mimir1
Nginx1
SLURM1
Semantic Kernel1
Synopsys Design Compiler1
Synopsys Fusion Compiler1
Zabbix1
NVLink1
ONNX1
etcd1
k9s1
lm-eval-harness1

What AI and ML technologies does Cerebras Systems use?

LLM is named in 11% of job postings at Cerebras Systems, followed by Claude (1%), Gemini (1%), Llama (1%).

LLM 16 11% required in 75% · 13 open now · since Sep 2025
Claude 1 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since May 2026
Gemini 1 1% required in 100% · 1 open now · since Sep 2026
Llama 1 1% optional · 1 open now · since Dec 2025

Which engineering practices does Cerebras Systems ask for?

AI Agents is named in 100% of job postings at Cerebras Systems, followed by Edge AI (100%), CI/CD (21%), Machine Learning (17%).

AI Agents 150 100% required in 100% · 106 open now · since Jul 2024
Edge AI 150 100% required in 100% · 106 open now · since Jul 2024
CI/CD 31 21% required in 94% · 23 open now · since Oct 2025
Machine Learning 26 17% required in 92% · 18 open now · since Oct 2025
HPC 25 17% required in 72% · 19 open now · since Oct 2025
Multimodal AI 13 9% required in 46% · 9 open now · since Oct 2025
SLI/SLO/SLA 10 7% required in 90% · 8 open now · since Jul 2024
BGP 9 6% required in 89% · 6 open now · since Nov 2025
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TCP/IP9
Quantization9
GitOps8
Platform Engineering6
KV Cache6
Mixture of Experts6
DNS5
Incident Management5
Function Calling4
Structured Outputs4
Tool Use4
Post-training4
IAM3
Tokenization3
Wi-Fi3
DHCP3
Chaos Engineering3
Configuration Management3
ETL/ELT2
Fine-tuning2
LLM Guardrails2
OSPF2
RLHF2
Reinforcement Learning2
VPN2
Agentic Workflows2
eBPF2
A/B Testing1
Anomaly Detection1
Context Engineering1
DPO1
GRPO1

And 12 more, each named in fewer postings.

What does each Cerebras Systems team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Backend

21 postings
OpenAI21
Python14
C++13
Kubernetes9
Linux9
Go6

DevOps

19 postings
OpenAI19
Python11
Kubernetes9
AWS8
Linux7
Go3

AI/ML

19 postings
OpenAI19
Python16
C++11
LLM6
PyTorch6
Kubernetes4

Hardware

16 postings
OpenAI16
Python13
SystemVerilog6
Perl5
UVM5
C++3

QA

11 postings
OpenAI11
Python10
AWS5
C++5
Kubernetes5
Go4

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How much does Cerebras Systems pay by technology?

Median stated pay of the postings that name each technology, against the median of all Cerebras Systems postings with stated pay: $245k across 33 postings.

TechnologyPostings with payMedianvs company median
OpenAI33$245k0%
Python22$243k−1%
SystemVerilog6$273k+11%
C++6$260k+6%
SQL6$230k−6%
Perl5$240k−2%

How is the Cerebras Systems stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
NCCLSep 2026
gRPCSep 2026
ETL/ELTJul 2026
SparkJul 2026
Rest APIJul 2026
JavaJul 2026
JAXJul 2026
GraphQLJul 2026
Rising
Go6% → 12%
ROCm0% → 5%
Rest API0% → 5%
Structured Outputs0% → 4%
Tool Use0% → 4%
Unix0% → 4%
gRPC0% → 4%
TPU3% → 6%
Falling
Ansible15% → 5%
Terraform15% → 7%
SLI/SLO/SLA12% → 4%
SystemVerilog9% → 1%
Perl9% → 1%
UVM9% → 1%
Docker12% → 5%
Redis9% → 2%
Not named for 6 months
Fine-tuningMar 2026
RLHFMar 2026
Reinforcement LearningMar 2026

How modern is the Cerebras Systems stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 78/100

Cerebras Systems scores 78 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 4; legacy ones: 0.

How common is the Cerebras Systems stack in its industry?

Share of the 184 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

OpenAI22%
Python84%
C++63%
Kubernetes55%
AWS49%
Linux73%
PyTorch48%
Go39%
LLM52%
PyTorch C++34%

Cerebras Systems products in its job postings

Postings at Cerebras Systems name its own products. They describe what the company makes, so they are left out of the stack above.

Cerebras150

Questions about the Cerebras Systems tech stack

What programming languages does Cerebras Systems use?

The languages named in Cerebras Systems job postings are Python (63%), C++ (27%), Go (11%), SQL (7%), SystemVerilog (5%), as a share of the 150 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Cerebras Systems use PyTorch?

Yes. PyTorch is named in 18 of 150 job postings (12%) and required in 10 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Cerebras Systems use?

The cloud and platforms named in Cerebras Systems job postings are OpenAI (150), Kubernetes (33), AWS (28) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Backend job at Cerebras Systems?

Backend postings at Cerebras Systems most often require OpenAI (21), Python (14), C++ (13), Kubernetes (9), out of 21 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Cerebras Systems tech stack changing?

Yes. NCCL, gRPC, ETL/ELT, Spark first appeared in Cerebras Systems job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Cerebras Systems tech stack?

Cerebras Systems scores 78 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 4; legacy ones: 0.

How does Alion know the Cerebras Systems tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Cerebras Systems publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 150 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 28, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Cerebras Systems tech stack: 189 technologies from 150 job postings", as of Sep 28, 2026. https://alion.io/company/cerebras-systems/technologies

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