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Cerebras · 4 weeks ago

Engineering Manager, Kernel Reliability

Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

6+ years exp

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, and they are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Kernel Reliability team. The role involves leading a high-performing team to improve the reliability of advanced compute clusters and internal production services, while setting the technical vision and collaborating closely with software and hardware teams.

AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)ComputerHardwareRISCSemiconductorSoftware

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provide hands-on technical leadership, owning the technical vision and roadmap for the kernel-centric reliability of our internal and customer-facing systems

Assist System and Cluster Operations teams on reducing system and service downtime after failure by providing tooling and manual intervention for failure analysis and diagnostic

Work with the Debug Team to enhance debug tools with the goal of speeding up failure analysis

Collaborate with SW teams to improve the software stack, including Kernels, to improve on-field debugging and failure analysis

Work with the ASIC an HW architecture teams to codesign the next generation architectures with reliability and ease of debug in mind

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-caliber team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and rapid execution

Qualification

Software engineeringSW/HW reliabilityDebug tool developmentParallel programmingDistributed programmingFailure analysisMonitoring engineeringLeadershipCollaboration

Required

6+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years leading teams in SW/HW reliability, debug, diagnostic, failure analysis or related fields

Expertise in parallel and distributed programming (message passing, multicore, GPU, embedded, etc.)

Debug and diagnostic tool development or expert usage (debuggers, core dump handling, code sanitizers, etc.)

Experience debugging distributed and parallel applications (deadlocks, livelocks, race conditions, etc.)

Deep understanding of computer architectures (instruction pipelining, multithreading, networking, etc.)

Strong background in monitoring and reliability engineering (incident response, post-mortem analysis, etc.)

Demonstrated ability to recruit and retain high-performing teams, mentor engineers, and partner cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing products

Company

Cerebras

Cerebras Systems is the world's fastest AI inference. We are powering the future of generative AI.

Founded in 2015

Sunnyvale, California, USA

501-1000 employees

https://cerebras.ai

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (31)

2024 (16)

2023 (18)

2022 (17)

2021 (34)

2020 (23)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$2.82B

Key Investors

Tiger Global ManagementAtreides Management,FidelityAlpha Wave Ventures

2026-02-04Series H· $1B

2025-12-03Secondary Market

2025-09-30Series G· $1.1B

Leadership Team

Andrew Feldman

Founder and CEO

Bob Komin

Chief Financial Officer

Recent News

Investing.com

Vista Equity Partners and Intel to lead investment in AI chip startup SambaNova, sources say

2026-02-07

Techmeme

Source: Benchmark raised $225M in special funds to invest in Cerebras' ~$1B Series H, led by Tiger Global; Benchmark led Cerebras' $27M Series A in 2016 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

2026-02-07

Pulse 2.0

Cerebras: AI Chipmaker Raises $1 Billion Series H At About $23 Billion Valuation

2026-02-06

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