Lead Engineer, Critical Facility Operations

The role

The Lead Engineer, Critical Facility Operations provides technical leadership for the safe and reliable operation of critical environments across a global footprint. This role involves supporting operational sites and upcoming builds, leading troubleshooting, and developing programs for operations and reliability.

What you will do

• Serve as a technical escalation resource for physical infrastructure operational issues.
• Assess and troubleshoot CDUs and associated cooling systems.
• Evaluate environmental monitoring and controls.
• Support electrical and mechanical incident response and lead root cause analysis.
• Review maintenance strategies, operating procedures and proposed changes.
• Support commissioning and operational acceptance of new sites.
• Translate product requirements into operating limits.
• Work with CFOps program management on program development and maturity.
• Perform operational engineering assessments of prospective sites and provider proposals.
• Support development and maintenance of operational and engineering standards.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant data center experience with substantial responsibility for live, mission-critical environments.
• Deep expertise in environmental controls, including hands-on experience with Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs) and data center cooling systems.
• Strong practical understanding of data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure and how these systems interact.
• Ability to assess interconnected systems, recognize technical limitations, and engage qualified specialists when needed.
• Working knowledge of data center white space, including servers, storage, networking equipment, racks, and associated data hall infrastructure.
• Proven experience leading technical incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), commissioning, or operational acceptance activities.
• Engineering degree, relevant technical qualification, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
• Publish and open source cutting-edge AI research.
• Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
• Job stability with startup vitality.
• Simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.

About the company

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip. The company works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.