Senior SDET, Inference Platform
Cerebras· Software Engineering
Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA), Hybrid (Toronto, CAN)Full-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
We are looking for an Inference Platform SDET to join the Inference Service Quality team at Cerebras and work on the inference platform, owning quality and reliability of infrastructure that deploys and runs the Cerebras Inference Platform across cloud environments and Cerebras hardware.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain test infrastructure and automation for deploying and validating the Cerebras Inference Platform.
- Validate the platform across environments — from cloud-managed Kubernetes to deployments running on Cerebras hardware.
- Test and verify deployment infrastructure including Kubernetes workloads, CI/CD pipelines, ingress and service discovery, NGINX, and load balancing.
- Collaborate closely with the Inference Platform development team to ensure new features and platform capabilities ship reliably.
- Investigate and debug complex issues spanning networking, orchestration, deployment, and distributed services.
- Develop and maintain testbeds used to validate platform performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Identify failure points, bottlenecks, and edge cases that impact platform stability and inference performance.
- Contribute to test plans and validation strategies for new platform features and releases.
- Improve observability, diagnostics, and debugging workflows across the inference platform stack.
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure high-quality, production-ready releases of the Cerebras Inference Platform.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, QA/quality engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure development.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go (experience with both is a plus).
- Experience building automation tools, testing frameworks, or internal developer tooling.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins)
- Experience debugging complex systems, distributed services, or networked infrastructure.
- Familiarity with systems-level development, infrastructure tooling, or platform integration.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate issues across multiple system and infrastructure layers.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
Skills
Required:PythonCI/CDNetworking/Distributed SystemsTesting/Automation
Nice to have:GoKubernetesDocker/NGINX/Ingress
Last updated Aug 30, 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.
AICerebras Wafer-Scale Enginechipshardwareinferenceliquid-ai-recruiting-targetmultimodalsetter-30
More open roles at Cerebras
- Infrastructure Systems Engineer – Linux, Storage & AutomationtodayHybrid (Sunnyvale, CA) · Datacenter
- Cloud Infrastructure EngineertodayHybrid (Sunnyvale, CA) · Software Engineering
- Power Manufacturing Test Development EngineertodaySunnyvale, CA · Hardware
- Supplier Quality Engineer - New Grad1w agoSunnyvale, CA · University Departments
- Supply Chain Program Manager1w agoHybrid (Sunnyvale, CA) · Hardware