AI Inference Core - Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 27 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Cerebras is hiring a Software Engineer to design and build the core software behind engineering infrastructure. The role focuses on Python frameworks, orchestration systems, distributed execution, scheduling, test infrastructure, and developer tooling.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Python frameworks and services used to orchestrate engineering workflows across machines and clusters. - Build reusable abstractions for scheduling, distributed execution, resource management, test execution, workflow planning, and failure recovery. - Define clear APIs, module boundaries, extension points, and data models to maintain system evolvability. - Manage concurrency, asynchronous execution, multiprocessing, state management, retries, idempotency, cancellation, and partial failures. - Debug complex issues spanning Python applications, operating systems, processes, filesystems, networking, remote machines, and distributed services. - Partner with platform, CI, release, quality, ML systems, and product engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable software designs.
What you'll need
- 5+ years of professional software-engineering experience. - Strong proficiency in Python and an understanding of runtime behavior, strengths, and limitations. - Experience designing maintainable software systems, libraries, frameworks, backend services, or developer-facing APIs. - Understanding of concurrency concepts including processes, threads, asynchronous execution, synchronization, and shared state. - Foundational understanding of operating systems, including processes, signals, filesystems, resource management, and program execution. - Foundational understanding of distributed-systems concepts such as retries, timeouts, idempotency, partial failure, coordination, and eventual consistency.
Nice to have
- Experience with Python concurrency technologies such as asyncio, multiprocessing, concurrent futures, or event-driven systems. - Experience building orchestration engines, workflow systems, schedulers, distributed job runners, or control-plane software. - Experience developing test infrastructure or extensions for frameworks such as pytest. - Familiarity with CI systems, build systems, release infrastructure, or developer-productivity tooling. - Experience with Kubernetes, containerized environments, cluster schedulers, or remote execution systems. - BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills: Python frameworks, orchestration systems, distributed execution, scheduling, test infrastructure
This role has been open 84 days — well above the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
968
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (968 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 38 | 968 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 75 | 6166 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 85 d | 52 d (+33 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: Python frameworks, orchestration systems, distributed execution, scheduling, test infrastructure
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 278 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 20 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 94 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras (this employer) · 36 open roles · median 84 d
How we counted: 968 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 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.