Senior Manager, Production & Fleet Operations - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 9 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading the day-to-day operational management of Cerebras-managed production infrastructure. You will be instrumental in operating advanced AI infrastructure and ensuring continuous visibility into its health.
What you'll do
- Own the day-to-day operational health of Cerebras-managed production infrastructure.
- Establish consistent operational processes across clusters, sites, and operating environments.
- Develop and mature the Cerebras Fleet Operations/NOC capability.
- Determine when physical intervention is required and coordinate SiteOps/DC Ops activities.
- Establish and manage the operational workflow for failed Cerebras systems and components.
- Establish operational governance for maintenance activities affecting production infrastructure.
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.
- 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.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 53-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3718
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$126k
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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 (3718 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 3718 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 9 | 9796 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 38 d | 53 d (−15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 613 open roles · median 52 d
- Lam Research · 545 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 269 open roles · median 44 d
- KLA Corporation · 254 open roles · median 66 d
- ASML · 198 open roles · median 64 d
- ASM International · 157 open roles · median 78 d
How we counted: 3718 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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 Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.