senior software engineering Hardware Engineer ic Bachelor's
$175,000 – $275,000
USD per year

About this role

Cerebras Systems is hiring a senior-level Hardware Engineer in the software engineering function based in Sunnyvale, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, C#, LLMs, Networking. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $175,000–$275,000 per year.

Role
Hardware Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Education
Bachelor's degree
Department
Silicon
AI Summary
Lead front-end design engineer driving RTL design, micro-architecture, and synthesis for next-generation Wafer Scale Engine chips. Requires deep RTL expertise, vendor management, and collaboration across verification, physical design, and software teams to deliver high-performance, power-efficient semiconductor solutions.

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Job description

from Cerebras Systems careers

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs.

Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.

Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.

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