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Engineering Lead, Kernel Reliability

Cerebras· Software Engineering
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United States and CanadaFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Technical leadership role focused on improving the reliability of Cerebras' kernel-centric systems and related inference, training, and production services. Lead a high-performance team, define technical vision, and drive solutions that scale with the company’s growing compute clusters and software stack.

Responsibilities

  • Provide hands-on technical leadership, owning the technical vision and roadmap for the kernel-centric reliability of 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 and 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

Qualifications

  • 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.)
  • Operations & Monitoring: Strong background in monitoring and reliability engineering (incident response, post-mortem analysis, etc.)
  • Leadership & Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to recruit and retain high-performing teams, mentor engineers, and partner cross-functionally to deliver customer-facing products.

Skills

Required:Software reliability and debugging leadershipParallel and distributed programmingDebug tool development and usageLeadership and cross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:System and reliability monitoring
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Cerebras

Cerebras is the go-to platform for fast and effortless AI training. Learn more at cerebras.ai.

Cerebras is the go-to platform for fast and effortless AI training.

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