Cerebras · 1 month ago
Principal Engineer, AI Inference Reliability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expCerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip and is seeking a hands-on Reliability Tech Lead to ensure the reliability of their AI inference service. The role involves defining reliability strategies, implementing mechanisms for fault detection, and collaborating across teams to maintain world-class reliability standards.
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Responsibilities
Define and drive reliability strategy: establish SLOs and ensure alignment across engineering
Design and implement reliability mechanisms: build and evolve systems for fault detection, graceful degradation, failover, throttling, and recovery across multiple regions and data centers
Lead large-scale incident management: own postmortems, root-cause analysis, and prevention loops for reliability-related incidents
Architect for reliability and observability: influence system design for redundancy, durability, and debuggability
Develop reliability tooling: create internal tools and frameworks for chaos testing, load simulation, and distributed fault injection
Collaborate broadly: work across software, infrastructure, and hardware teams to ensure reliability is embedded into every layer of our inference service
Monitor and communicate reliability metrics: build dashboards and alerts that measure service health and provide actionable insights
Mentor and influence: guide engineers and set best practices for designing, testing, and operating reliable large-scale systems
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field
7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or reliability engineering for large-scale distributed systems
Strong programming skills in at least one popular backend programming language such as Python, C++, Go, or Rust
Deep and hard-earned experience of reliability principles: SLO/SLI/SLA design, incident response, and postmortem culture
Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills
Preferred
prior experience building large-scale AI infrastructure systems
Benefits
Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
Company
Cerebras
Cerebras Systems is the world's fastest AI inference. We are powering the future of generative AI.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.82BKey Investors
Alpha Wave VenturesVy CapitalCoatue
2025-12-03Secondary Market
2025-09-30Series G· $1.1B
2024-09-27Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Andrew Feldman
CEO & Founder
Bob Komin
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2026-01-06
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2026-01-02
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