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Principal Engineer, AI Inference Reliability

United States; Canada, Sunnyvale · Job Posted February 17, 2026
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We’re looking for a hands-on Reliability Tech Lead (IC) to own the mission of making Cerebras Inference the most reliable AI service in the world. You will drive reliability strategy and execution across our inference stack, from client SDKs and public-cloud multi-region deployments to wafer-scale systems in specialized data centers. In this role, you will define SLOs and incident-response frameworks, design and implement reliability mechanisms at scale, and partner across hundreds of engineers to ensure our service meets world-class reliability standards.

Job Responsibility

  • Define and drive reliability strategy: establish SLOs and ensure alignment across engineering
  • Design and implement reliability mechanisms: build and evolve systems for fault detection, graceful degradation, failover, throttling, and recovery across multiple regions and data centers
  • Lead large-scale incident management: own postmortems, root-cause analysis, and prevention loops for reliability-related incidents
  • Architect for reliability and observability: influence system design for redundancy, durability, and debuggability
  • Develop reliability tooling: create internal tools and frameworks for chaos testing, load simulation, and distributed fault injection
  • Collaborate broadly: work across software, infrastructure, and hardware teams to ensure reliability is embedded into every layer of our inference service
  • Monitor and communicate reliability metrics: build dashboards and alerts that measure service health and provide actionable insights
  • Mentor and influence: guide engineers and set best practices for designing, testing, and operating reliable large-scale systems

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field
  • 7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or reliability engineering for large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong programming skills in at least one popular backend programming language such as Python, C++, Go, or Rust
  • Deep and hard-earned experience of reliability principles: SLO/SLI/SLA design, incident response, and postmortem culture
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills

Nice to have

prior experience building large-scale AI infrastructure systems

What we offer

  • Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU
  • Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research
  • Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world
  • Enjoy job stability with startup vitality
  • Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs

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