Staff GPU Inference SDET

Cerebras Systems

$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, focusing on SDET or systems testing roles.
  • Hands-on experience with multi-node GPU clusters in public cloud or enterprise data centers.
  • Deep understanding of LLM serving engines and distributed runtime frameworks.
  • Expert-level skills in Python and experience with custom test automation frameworks.
  • Strong proficiency with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and advanced networking technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement automated test frameworks for the GPU inference stack.
  • Benchmark and stress-test LLM serving frameworks under various workloads.
  • Build tools to validate GPU performance models and track critical metrics.
  • Develop validation infrastructure for model accuracy and output correctness.
  • Engineer chaos engineering suites to test fleet resilience and automated recovery paths.
  • Integrate automated tests with telemetry tools for continuous performance monitoring.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead the quality and reliability initiatives for a new development team.
  • Engage in cutting-edge AI advancements.
  • Work with cross-functional teams, enhancing collaborative skills.
  • Access to advanced GPU infrastructures and innovative technologies.
Full Job Description
About the Role
As a Staff GPU Inference SDET, you will be the founding quality, reliability, and validation lead for a new GPU Inference Development team. Working closely with engineering leads and cross-functional systems infrastructure teams, you will design, build, and scale the end-to-end release qualification and automated test ecosystem for our GPU inference stack and rack-scale accelerated compute fleets. In this high-impact role, you will be responsible for building automated test suites to validate multi-node GPU cluster bring-up, verifying prefill worker optimizations, testing open-source and custom serving engines, and ensuring numerical correctness and performance stability under real-world streaming workloads. You will be the primary technical anchor ensuring production-grade reliability, fault isolation, and peak inference performance across accelerated GPU infrastructure.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Build GPU Release Qualification Systems:

Design and implement automated test automation frameworks, regression gates, and release qualification pipelines for the complete GPU inference stack-spanning custom API services, model-serving workers, container runtimes, serving engines, driver stacks, and firmware.

Inference Serving & Workload Validation:

Benchmark and stress-test distributed LLM serving frameworks, focusing on prefill vs. decode worker performance, continuous batching, prefix caching, KV-cache efficiency, and tensor/expert parallelism.

Performance & Performance Modeling Verification:

Build automated workload replay and benchmarking tools to validate GPU performance models. Track critical serving metrics including Time-to-First-Token (TTFT), Inter-Token Latency (ITL), request throughput, tail latency (P99), and capacity efficiency.

Numerical Correctness & Quality Gates:

Build validation infrastructure to ensure model accuracy, precision stability (FP16/FP8/quantization), determinism, and output correctness across software updates, kernel fusions, and hardware revisions.

Fault Injection & Fleet Resilience:

Engineer chaos engineering and fault-injection suites to simulate node failures, inter-node network degradation, GPU memory leaks, driver/firmware mismatches, and automated recovery paths for multi-node GPU clusters.

Observability & CI/CD Integration:

Integrate automated test pipelines with telemetry tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to turn one-off investigations into repeatable engineering gates and continuous performance monitoring.

REQUIREMENTS:

8+ years of software engineering experience as an SDET, Infrastructure Quality Lead, or Systems Test Engineer.

GPU & Cluster Infrastructure Expertise:

Hands-on experience bringing up, provisioning, and validating multi-node GPU clusters (NVIDIA or AMD ecosystem) across public cloud infrastructure or enterprise data center environments.

Inference Stack Knowledge:

Deep understanding of LLM serving engines and distributed runtimes, including prefill vs. decode disaggregation, KV-cache management, and dynamic batching.

Automation & Scripting:

Expert-level Python programming skills with extensive experience designing custom test automation frameworks, diagnostic tooling, and CI/CD integration.

Orchestration & Networking:

Strong proficiency with container orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray) and high-performance cluster interconnects (e.g., InfiniBand, RoCE, NCCL).

Failure Analysis & Debugging:

Proven background in root-cause analysis across software/hardware boundaries, stress testing, and node failure simulation in distributed systems.

NICE TO HAVES:
  • Direct experience with either AMD (ROCm / HIP) or NVIDIA software stacks.
  • Experience building workload replay tools, ML evaluation pipelines, or MLPerf Inference benchmark suites.
  • Familiarity with low-level kernel profiling tools (PyTorch Profiler, NVTX, ROCm profilers) or C++

Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Cerebras Systems

More Information Technology Jobs

Find similar Staff GPU Inference SDET jobs: