AI Inference Core - Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Job summary

Responsibilities

We are hiring a Software Engineer to design and build the core software behind Cerebras engineering infrastructure.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain Python frameworks and services used to orchestrate engineering workflows across machines and clusters.
• Build reusable abstractions for scheduling, distributed execution, resource management, test execution, workflow planning, and failure recovery.
• Define clear APIs, module boundaries, extension points, and data models that allow infrastructure systems to evolve without becoming difficult to maintain.
• Reason about concurrency, asynchronous execution, multiprocessing, state management, retries, idempotency, cancellation, and partial failures.
• Debug complex issues spanning Python applications, operating systems, processes, filesystems, networking, remote machines, and distributed services.

What they're looking for

• 5+ years of professional software-engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and a solid understanding of the language’s strengths, limitations, and runtime behavior.
• Experience designing maintainable software systems, libraries, frameworks, backend services, or developer-facing APIs.
• Good judgment around software architecture, abstraction boundaries, design patterns, extensibility, and long-term maintainability.
• Understanding of concurrency concepts such as processes, threads, asynchronous execution, synchronization, and shared state.

Tech stack

• Python
• Kubernetes