Hardware Research Analyst

The role

This individual contributor will produce original research and technical content regarding AI hardware and software. You will investigate system workings, build demos, run benchmarks, and explain technical developments to developers and the industry.

What you will do

• Analyze AI hardware, software, infrastructure trends, and industry announcements.
• Write articles and research that make complex ideas accessible.
• Build demos and run reproducible benchmarks to test claims and investigate performance.
• Synthesize technical and financial information from primary sources and expert conversations.
• Partner with Developer Relations, Engineering, and New Media to develop content.
• Represent Cerebras at industry conferences.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, coding, and writing.

Required qualifications

• A strong portfolio of externally published technical writing, research, or other substantive technical content.
• Deep expertise in AI hardware or software, including architectural and system tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated experience building demos or running benchmarks.
• Clear technical writing and communication.
• Strong research judgment.
• Good editorial judgment about what makes technical content original, useful, and engaging.
• The ability to learn unfamiliar technical subjects, collaborate with experts, incorporate critical feedback, and deliver under a deadline.
• Strong familiarity with AI tools and sound judgment about where independent verification is necessary.

Nice to have

• Experience combining technical and financial analysis to explain developments in AI infrastructure.
• Experience turning conference findings or conversations with technical experts into published research.

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, 56 times larger than GPUs. The company works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.