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This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. \nThis 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.\nCerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.\nAbout the Team\nThe Core Infrastructure team builds the software systems that power engineering workflows across Cerebras.\nOur infrastructure coordinates complex work across machines, clusters, development environments, and hardware systems. We build orchestration frameworks, execution engines, scheduling systems, test infrastructure, developer tools, and reusable software platforms that allow engineers to build, test, qualify, and deliver software reliably at scale.\nThese systems are primarily built in Python, but the work goes far beyond scripting or automation. Our frameworks act as the control plane for distributed workflows, managing resources, execution state, concurrency, failures, retries, dependencies, and observability across large and complex environments.\nAbout the Role\nWe are hiring a Software Engineer to design and build the core software behind Cerebras engineering infrastructure.\nYou will work on Python frameworks, orchestration systems, distributed execution, scheduling, test infrastructure, and developer tooling. You will help define the architecture and APIs that other engineering teams depend on every day.\nThis role is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys reading unfamiliar code, understanding how systems fit together, debugging difficult problems, and improving the underlying design rather than applying one-off fixes.\nWe value strong software-engineering fundamentals, independent problem solving, and sound systems thinking more than familiarity with any particular infrastructure product.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, develop, test, and maintain Python frameworks and services used to orchestrate engineering workflows across machines and clusters.\n\nBuild reusable abstractions for scheduling, distributed execution, resource management, test execution, workflow planning, and failure recovery.\n\nDefine clear APIs, module boundaries, extension points, and data models that allow infrastructure systems to evolve without becoming difficult to maintain.\n\nReason about concurrency, asynchronous execution, multiprocessing, state management, retries, idempotency, cancellation, and partial failures.\n\nDebug complex issues spanning Python applications, operating systems, processes, filesystems, networking, remote machines, and distributed services.\n\nWrite high-quality automated tests and documentation for infrastructure that is expected to be reliable and widely reused.\n\nPartner with platform, CI, release, quality, ML systems, and product engineering teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable software designs.\n\nSkills & Qualifications\n5+ years of professional software-engineering experience.\n\nStrong proficiency in Python and a solid understanding of the language’s strengths, limitations, and runtime behavior.\n\nExperience designing maintainable software systems, libraries, frameworks, backend services, or developer-facing APIs.\n\nGood judgment around software architecture, abstraction boundaries, design patterns, extensibility, and long-term maintainability.\n\nUnderstanding of concurrency concepts such as processes, threads, asynchronous execution, synchronization, and shared state.\n\nFoundational understanding of operating systems, including processes, signals, filesystems, resource management, and program execution.\n\nFoundational understanding of distributed-systems concepts such as retries, timeouts, idempotency, partial failure, coordination, and eventual consistency.\n\nStrong debugging and problem-solving skills, including the ability to form hypotheses, gather evidence, and work through unfamiliar systems independently.\n\nPreferred Skills & Qualifications\nExperience with Python concurrency technologies such as asyncio, multiprocessing, concurrent futures, or event-driven systems.\n\nExperience building orchestration engines, workflow systems, schedulers, distributed job runners, or control-plane software.\n\nExperience developing test infrastructure or extensions for frameworks such as pytest.\n\nFamiliarity with CI systems, build systems, release infrastructure, or developer-productivity tooling.\n\nExperience with Kubernetes, containerized environments, cluster schedulers, or remote execution systems.\n\nBS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nWhy Join Cerebras\nPeople who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras, we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. 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:\nBuild a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.\n\nPublish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.\n\nWork on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.\n\nEnjoy job stability with startup vitality.\n\nOur simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.\n\nFind out more about what it's like to work at Cerebras here!\nApply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!\nCerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. 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