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Cerebras · 2 weeks ago

Compiler Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

1+ years exp

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip and is seeking a Compiler Engineer to design and implement new features in their CSL language and compiler. The role involves developing high-level abstractions and optimizing the compiler for efficient hardware utilization.

AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)ComputerHardwareRISCSemiconductorSoftware

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and implement front-end language features, semantic analysis, intermediate representations, and lowering pipelines from CSL to MLIR dialect(s) and LLVM IR

Develop and refine abstraction layers between the CSL language frontend, MLIR, and LLVM IR

Collaborate with kernel developers and application teams to design language constructs that improve expressiveness, clarity, productivity, and performance

Extend the compiler to support future hardware architectures and evolving platform capabilities

Identify and implement program analysis and optimization techniques

Write tests, benchmarks, and documentation to ensure correctness, performance, and maintainability

Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving compiler infrastructure, tooling, and developer workflows

Qualification

Compiler designMLIRLLVM IRModern C++Data structuresAlgorithmsSoftware engineeringSemantic analysisType systemsIR transformations

Required

Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, or foreign equivalent in computer science, engineering, or related field

1+ years of experience working with compilers, language tooling, or closely related systems software. and/or distributed systems and/or close-to-hardware programming

Familiarity with modern C++

Experience designing or implementing compiler components such as parsers, type systems, semantic analysis, or IR transformations

Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering fundamentals

Preferred

Hands-on experience with MLIR, and/or LLVM IR, and/or AI/ML compilers

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

Cerebras has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving 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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