Sr. Technical Staff

Job Title

Sr. Technical Staff

Role Summary

Perform post-silicon validation and bring-up for Cerebras Wafer Scale Engines. The role focuses on testing and debugging new silicon, developing automation and debug tools, and supporting wafer bring-up and manufacturing operations.

Collaborate with hardware design, system software, silicon, and operations teams to ensure reliable system performance and manufacturability.

Experience Level

Senior — requires at least 3 years of relevant engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities include:

• Perform post-silicon validation: test, analyze, and debug issues on new Wafer Scale Engine silicon.
• Characterize high-speed serial interfaces for compliance with hardware specifications and record performance data.
• Lead wafer bring-up, burn-in, and diagnostic activities in coordination with silicon and operations teams.
• Support manufacturing operations by applying the wafer bring-up flow and troubleshooting production issues.
• Develop hardware and firmware-level debug tools and automation to accelerate validation and bring-up.
• Create and maintain automated regression test scripts and bring-up flows using Python and shell scripting.
• Collaborate with hardware and system software engineers to review specs and recommend design or test changes to improve verifiability and quality.
• Document issues, tools, and operational flows.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience:

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in roles such as Application Engineer, Sr. Technical Staff, Hardware Engineer, or similar.
• Electrical signal integrity analysis and functional/electrical characterization experience.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up and system debug, including diagnosing interactions with FPGAs, power, and cooling.
• Experience developing test automation and debug tools using scripting languages (Python, Bash).
• Familiarity with high-speed interfaces and protocols (examples: Ethernet, CPRI, Interlaken).
• Ability to develop and maintain regression tests and wafer bring-up flows for production and validation environments.

Education Requirements

Master's degree (M.S.) or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

About the Company

Company: Cerebras

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Developer of wafer-scale AI accelerators, Cerebras designs the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE)—one of the world’s largest AI chips—to deliver high-speed training and inference solutions for model labs, enterprises, and AI-native startups.