AI and Automation Engineer - Business Systems - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 2 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The AI and Automation Engineer designs, builds, and operates secure AI solutions and enterprise automations for Cerebras, translating complex Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, and enterprise requirements into reliable agents, applications, integrations, and controlled workflows.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, deploy, and support production AI agents, orchestration services, enterprise applications, and reusable platform components.
- Create reusable patterns for agents, tools, APIs, Model Context Protocol servers, prompts, retrieval, evaluations, and human-review workflows.
- Design and support secure connections between AI services and approved enterprise platforms, beginning with NetSuite and extending to data, procurement, contracts, HR, CRM, and other systems.
- Build reliable integrations using APIs, MCP, webhooks, event-driven services, SFTP, and enterprise integration platforms.
- Evaluate models, agent frameworks, connectors, and enterprise platforms through structured proofs of concept and documented technical recommendations.
- Partner with Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Business Operations, IT, and Security to identify high-value use cases and translate requirements into controlled solutions.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience in software, platform, integration, solution engineering, enterprise applications, or related technical roles with hands-on production ownership.
- Strong Python and TypeScript or JavaScript skills, with practical experience building APIs, services, and enterprise applications.
- Hands-on experience building production AI systems using agents, tool use, retrieval, structured outputs, evaluations, and monitoring.
- Practical experience with leading LLM platforms and agent frameworks such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, LangChain, or Semantic Kernel.
- Experience designing integrations with MCP or comparable tool protocols, enterprise authentication, permission-aware access, and distributed-system reliability patterns.
- Working knowledge of enterprise Finance processes including close, reporting, procure to pay, order to cash, forecasting, and management reporting.
- Working knowledge of software engineering practices including version control, peer review, environment management, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI or automation solutions for Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, or other controlled enterprise processes.
- Experience integrating AI services with ERP, data, procurement, contract, HR, CRM, or enterprise workflow platforms.
- Experience with cloud platforms, event-driven or serverless architectures, and enterprise integration platforms.
- Experience implementing SOX controls or operating in a public-company, IPO-readiness, or audit-regulated environment.
- Experience in semiconductor, hardware, manufacturing, or another operationally complex environment.
Skills: AI solution architecture, Build AI agents, orchestration services, enterprise applications, AI platform strategy, LLM platforms and agent frameworks, secure, primarily read-only AI connections to approved business systems
This role has been open 43 days — below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 39 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 76 | 6141 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 80 d | 50 d (+30 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: AI solution architecture, Build AI agents, orchestration services, enterprise applications, AI platform strategy, LLM platforms and agent frameworks, secure, primarily read-only AI connections to approved business systems
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras (this employer) · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.