CoDesign & NextGen Performance Engineer

Cerebras Systems

$100K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with a strong background in computer architecture.
  • Understanding of low-level operations in deep learning and LLM math.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Over 3 years of experience in fields such as Computer Architecture, CPU/GPU Performance, Kernel Optimization, or HPC.
  • Experience with CPU/GPU simulators.
  • Familiarity with performance profiling and debugging.
  • Proficiency in C++ and Python.

Responsibilities

  • Optimize performance on new generations of the Cerebras WSE.
  • Create performance models for state-of-the-art and customer ML models.
  • Optimize and debug kernel micro code and compiler algorithms for ML model efficiency.
  • Analyze and diagnose runtime performance on systems and clusters.
  • Develop visualization tools for performance data from the Wafer Scale Engine.

Benefits

  • Innovative work environment with cutting-edge technology.
  • Opportunity to influence next-generation AI architecture.
  • Engagement in cross-disciplinary projects between hardware and software teams.
  • Focus on performance optimization leading to visible impact on AI applications.
Full Job Description
About The Role

This role focuses on characterizing, analyzing, and optimizing the performance of state-of-the-art AI models running on Cerebras' breakthrough hardware. You will work across the hardware and software stack to identify bottlenecks, improve computational efficiency, and help influence the design of Cerebras' next-generation AI architecture and software systems.

Responsibilities
  • Bring up and optimize performance on new generations of the Cerebras WSE.
  • Build performance models (kernel-level, end-to-end) to estimate the performance of state of the art and customer ML models.
  • Optimize and debug our kernel micro code and compiler algorithms to elevate ML model inference speed, throughput and compute utilization on the Cerebras WSE.
  • Debug and understand runtime performance on the system and cluster.
  • Develop tools and infrastructure to help visualize performance data collected from the Wafer Scale Engine and our compute cluster.


Skills & Qualifications
  • Bachelors / Masters / PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
    Strong background in computer architecture.
  • Exposure to and understanding of low-level deep learning / LLM math.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
  • 3+ years of experience in a relevant domain (Computer Architecture, CPU/GPU Performance, Kernel Optimization, HPC).
  • Experience working on CPU/GPU simulators.
  • Exposure to performance profiling and debug on any system pipeline.
  • Comfort with C++ and Python.

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