AI Inference Core - Technical Lead Manager, Release Qual & Integration - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 27 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As Technical Lead Manager for Release Qual & Integration, you will establish and lead Release Integration Testing within Release & Feature Qualification for AI Inference Core. You will define the quality strategy across the pre-release and release cycle, spanning AI frameworks, runtime, compiler, kernels, distributed systems, infrastructure, and hardware.
What you'll do
- Define the Release Integration Testing strategy, engagement criteria, ownership boundaries, entry and exit criteria, coverage expectations, and escalation thresholds for AI Inference Core. - Own the inference-path readiness gate by reviewing unit, simulation, benchmark, feature-test, and integration evidence before release entry. - Lead integrated inference end-to-end validation across features and the cloud-to-wafer stack, promoting durable feature tests and adding risk-based scenarios to release regression. - Improve master and release-branch stability through actionable health metrics, failure classification, dashboards, qualification workflows, and release pipelines. - Lead first-pass regression and rollout triage, drive root cause analysis (RCA), place missing coverage at the correct layer, and plan rollouts across multiple release projects. - Partner with and mentor SDETs, feature teams, Integration, Core Infra, and release owners while designing test architecture and writing software alongside the team.
What you'll need
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and programming proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language. - Demonstrated technical leadership in software quality, test infrastructure, systems validation, release engineering, or complex software integration. - Experience designing automation and test architecture for distributed, systems-level, infrastructure, or AI software. - Proven ability to break down ambiguous cross-stack failures, form hypotheses, gather evidence, and drive issues to resolution. - Strong understanding of risk-based testing, release readiness, regression strategy, failure analysis, and quality metrics.
Nice to have
- Experience with software/hardware co-design, hardware accelerators, compilers, kernels, runtimes, or low-level systems. - Experience with AI infrastructure, model deployment, LLMs, multimodal workloads, or large-scale compute clusters. - Experience building test frameworks, distributed test systems, release pipelines, dashboards, or internal developer tooling. - Experience with performance testing, profiling, observability, fault injection, reliability, or production failure analysis. - Experience managing geographically distributed teams across multiple regions and time zones. - Familiarity with containers, cluster orchestration, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, or high-performance computing.
Skills: SDET Technical Lead, Release Integration Testing, quality strategy, test architecture, release cycle
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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| 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: SDET Technical Lead, Release Integration Testing, quality strategy, test architecture, release cycle
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.