AI Inference Core - Senior SW Engineer for Platform & DevOps - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 27 July 2026 by the employer.
Build the software systems that power engineering workflows across Cerebras for their AI Inference Core.
About the role
This role involves building and operating the platform layer behind Cerebras engineering infrastructure, focusing on the AI Inference Core.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD systems supporting build, test, integration, qualification, and release workflows.
- Build and operate Kubernetes-based platforms and services used by engineering teams.
- Develop deployment systems, internal tools, and self-service workflows for repeatable, reviewable, and safe infrastructure changes.
- Improve infrastructure reliability, capacity, performance, cost efficiency, monitoring, and operational readiness.
- Debug issues spanning CI pipelines, Kubernetes workloads, networking, storage, authentication, operating systems, and distributed applications.
- Perform root-cause analysis and implement lasting fixes rather than relying on repeated manual intervention.
What you'll need
- 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, or software engineering.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated software-delivery workflows.
- Experience deploying and operating services using Kubernetes and containerized environments.
- Experience with a major cloud platform, preferably AWS, and programmatic infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong understanding of Linux or Unix operating-system fundamentals.
- Understanding of networking concepts such as DNS, routing, load balancing, proxies, ports, TLS, and service connectivity.
- Proficiency in Python, Shell, or another language used to build infrastructure automation and operational tooling.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and incident investigation.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate issues spanning applications, infrastructure, networking, and operating systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, specifically Terraform.
- Experience with Kubernetes controllers, operators, custom resources, Helm, Argo CD, or similar platform technologies.
- Experience managing artifact repositories, package registries, build caches, or software-distribution infrastructure.
- Familiarity with build systems, dependency management, and reproducible-build practices.
- Experience supporting hybrid environments spanning cloud infrastructure, on-premises systems, and specialized hardware.
- Experience with identity and access management, secrets, certificates, TLS, or mTLS.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure products.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills: CI/CD systems, Kubernetes, deployment automation, cloud infrastructure, observability
This role has been open 83 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 | 36 | 968 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 73 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 84 d | 52 d (+32 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: CI/CD systems, Kubernetes, deployment automation, cloud infrastructure, observability
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.