CoDesign & NextGen Performance Engineer

Overview

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture enables industry-leading training and inference speeds, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This speed increase transforms AI applications by enabling real-time iteration and increased intelligent computation.

Cerebras collaborates with leading model labs, global enterprises, and AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras to deploy scale and transform key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.

This role focuses on characterizing, analyzing, and optimizing the performance of state-of-the-art AI models running on Cerebras’ breakthrough hardware. You will work across the hardware and software stack to identify bottlenecks, improve computational efficiency, and influence the design of Cerebras’ next-generation AI architecture and software systems.

• Bring up and optimize performance on new generations of the Cerebras WSE.

• Build performance models (kernel-level, end-to-end) to estimate the performance of state-of-the-art and customer ML models.

• Optimize and debug kernel micro code and compiler algorithms to elevate ML model inference speed, throughput, and compute utilization on the Cerebras WSE.

• Debug and understand runtime performance on the system and cluster.

• Develop tools and infrastructure to visualize performance data collected from the Wafer Scale Engine and our compute cluster.

• Bachelors / Masters / PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Strong background in computer architecture.

• Exposure to and understanding of low-level deep learning / LLM math.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.

• 3+ years of experience in a relevant domain (Computer Architecture, CPU/GPU Performance, Kernel Optimization, HPC).

• Experience working on CPU/GPU simulators.

• Exposure to performance profiling and debugging on any system pipeline.

• Comfort with C++ and Python.

Find out more about what it is like to work at Cerebras here.

Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!

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