Senior Performance Engineer, Inference

Cerebras Systems · Headquarters/Sunnyvale Office

Cerebras Systems is hiring a Senior Performance Engineer, Inference in Headquarters/Sunnyvale Office. The role focuses on operating systems & kernel, compilers & runtimes, graphics, gpu & compute, low-latency & performance.

Key responsibilities

• Design standardized benchmark suites for inference workloads (code generation, summarization, multi-turn conversation, agentic tool use) that enable fair, reproducible comparisons.
• You will build, run, and maintain reproducible benchmarks that measure Cerebras inference performance for real customer workloads.
• This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services.

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