Senior Manager, Production & Fleet Operations
Originally posted 9 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role will lead the day-to-day operational management of Cerebras-managed production infrastructure, which includes large-scale AI infrastructure across cloud, colocation facilities, and customer environments.
What you'll do
- Own day-to-day operational health of Cerebras-managed production infrastructure.
- Establish consistent operational processes across clusters, sites, and operating environments.
- Coordinate physical intervention and troubleshooting between centralized Operations and onsite technicians.
- Establish and manage the operational workflow for failed Cerebras systems and components.
- Establish operational governance for maintenance activities affecting production infrastructure.
- Identify high-frequency operational activities suitable for automation.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure operations, cloud operations, fleet operations, SRE, HPC operations, or data center operations.
- 3+ years leading technical operations teams.
- Experience operating complex, highly available production infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of monitoring, telemetry, incident response, maintenance, hardware troubleshooting, and service restoration.
- Experience coordinating work between centralized operations and onsite technical teams.
- Strong infrastructure troubleshooting and operational judgment.
- Demonstrated ability to establish repeatable processes in rapidly evolving environments.
Nice to have
- AI/HPC, large-scale compute, accelerator, cloud, or distributed infrastructure experience.
- Experience with hardware-intensive production environments.
- Experience building or operating NOC/Fleet Operations capabilities.
- Experience managing hardware repair/RMA processes.
- Experience operating geographically distributed infrastructure.
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This role has been open 25 days — well below the 55-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3875
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Median days open
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$125k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (3875 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 3875 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 9 | 10043 · 105 employers |
| Median days open | 63 d | 55 d (+8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $125k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 662 open roles · median 55 d
- Lam Research · 560 open roles · median 41 d
- KLA Corporation · 309 open roles · median 61 d
- Micron Technology · 248 open roles · median 50 d
- ASML · 193 open roles · median 77 d
- ASM International · 155 open roles · median 83 d
How we counted: 3875 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 3 Nov 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 Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.