Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) - AI Cluster

The role

The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test will innovate and execute tests on cutting edge AI infrastructure. This role focuses on testing and validating thousands of nodes in large deployments to ensure cluster reliability.

What you will do

• Innovate and execute tests on cutting edge AI infrastructure
• Define optimized test strategies and methodologies
• Build understanding of how to break large distributed systems into unit testable components
• Aim for 100% automated tests for cluster features including high availability, failure scenarios, performance, stress and security
• Champion cluster security, reliability for uptime of 99.9999% and ease of use with observability
• Test all components of AI cluster including cluster software and hardware components

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering in computer science, electrical, AI, data science or related field
• 5+ years of experience in testing one of areas like enterprise software, distributed systems, datacenter hardware and software
• Strong coding skills in one of the programming languages like python, golang and C/C++
• Strong debugging skills to debug issues in large distributed systems, hardware, and software
• Experience with debugging tools like pdb, gdb, strace and network monitors
• Strong understanding of operating systems internals like memory management, file system working, security and performance
• Strong understanding of datacenter layout, device performance characteristics like Servers, Memory, BIOS, PCIe, networking and storage
• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS, kubernetes and dockers

Nice to have

• Monitoring tools like grafana, prometheus is huge plus
• Understanding and experience of ML model training and inference is a huge plus
• Understand of ML hardware accelerators like GPU, custom accelerator ASIC is a huge plus

Benefits

• Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU
• Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research
• Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world
• Enjoy 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.