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Director/Sr. Manager, AI Inference Model Scaling

Cerebras· Software Engineering
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)Full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineering leadership role responsible for defining the technical vision, strategy, and execution roadmap to enable state-of-the-art foundation models on Cerebras hardware, focusing on ML model compilation, optimization, and high-performance kernel development for AI inference at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical roadmap and strategy for the team.
  • Establish technical direction across multiple teams and engineering leaders.
  • Lead design reviews and establish engineering standards.
  • Drive support for emerging LLM architectures and inference workloads.
  • Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
  • Develop future technical leaders and managers.
  • Drive organizational planning, headcount strategy, and investment priorities.
  • Foster a strong engineering culture focused on execution, quality, and innovation.
  • Scale engineering processes while maintaining execution velocity.
  • Partner with Cloud Platform, ML, and Hardware teams in planning and delivering for end-to-end service enablement in Cloud and On-Premise settings
  • Work with Product Management to prioritize model enablement and customer needs.
  • Collaborate closely with customers and solution architects on new model bring-up.
  • Influence future hardware/software co-design through ML model enablement and optimization insights.
  • Own planning, prioritization, and execution across multiple concurrent initiatives.
  • Balance rapid model support with long-term ML Compiler architecture.
  • Drive predictable delivery for strategic customer commitments.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
  • 12+ years building compiler, ML systems, or infrastructure software.
  • 5+ years leading engineering teams.
  • Deep experience with modern compiler infrastructure (LLVM, MLIR, XLA, TVM, Torch FX, or similar).
  • Strong understanding of graph compilation and optimization.
  • Experience with Python and C++.
  • Experience delivering production-quality software.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills.

Skills

Required:Compiler infrastructureGraph compilation and optimizationPythonC++
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.

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