Cerebras Systems builds the world’s largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation. Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.

SDET Technical Lead to establish and lead Release Integration Testing (RIT) within Release & Feature Qualification for AI Inference Core. You will define the quality strategy across the pre-release and release cycle, from feature and model integration through branch stability, release qualification, deployment, and post-release learning. You will work across AI frameworks, runtime, compiler, kernels, distributed systems, infrastructure, and hardware to make release risk visible and actionable.

This is a technical‑leadership role, not a coordination‑only position. You will design test architecture, lead difficult debugging and release decisions, mentor engineers, and write software and automation alongside the team. Require evidence across unit, simulation, benchmark, feature, and integration testing, with explicit coverage gaps before release entry.

Cross-stack test strategy: Define risk-based E2E and regression coverage for features spanning components, organizations, software layers, infrastructure, and hardware. Establish measurable health standards for master and release branches, and coordinate inference-impacting rollout across multiple product and release projects. Hands-on technical authority: Lead through code, test architecture, difficult debugging, quality metrics, and evidence-based release decisions.

Raise the technical bar, mentor engineers, and align feature, infrastructure, integration, qualification, and release teams. Define the RIT strategy, engagement criteria, ownership boundaries, entry and exit criteria, coverage expectations,



and escalation thresholds for AI Inference Core. Engage early on high-risk inference changes; identify dependencies and interaction risks across runtime, host, device programming, memory, scheduling, model execution, infrastructure, and hardware.

Own the inference-path readiness gate by reviewing unit, simulation, benchmark, feature-test, and integration evidence, documenting gaps, and approving integration readiness before release entry. promote durable feature tests and add risk-based scenarios to release regression. Improve master and release-branch stability through actionable health metrics, failure classification, release-quality reporting, dashboards, qualification workflows, and release pipelines. Lead first-pass regression and rollout triage, coordinate owners through resolution, drive RCA, place missing coverage at the correct layer, and plan rollout across multiple product and release projects.

Partner with and mentor SDETs, feature teams, Integration, Core Infra, release owners, and deployment teams; between active engagements, advance automation efficiency, diagnostics, probes, and roadmap test planning. Strong software-engineering fundamentals and programming ability in Python, C++, Go, or a similar language. Demonstrated technical leadership in software quality, test infrastructure, systems validation, release engineering, or complex software integration.

Experience designing automation and test architecture for distributed, systems-level, infrastructure, or AI software. Strong understanding of risk-based testing, release readiness, regression strategy, failure analysis, and quality metrics.



Clear communication and sound judgment during high-pressuer release situations, including the ability to explain technical risk to engineering and leadership audiences.

Experience with software/hardware co-design, hardware accelerators, compilers, kernels, runtimes, or low-level systems.

Experience with AI infrastructure, model deployment, LLMs, multimodal workloads, or large-scale compute clusters.

Experience building test frameworks, distributed test systems, release pipelines, dashboards, or internal developer tooling.

Experience with performance testing, profiling, observability, fault injection, reliability, or production failure analysis. Track record of taking a quality or release capability from zero to one and scaling it across teams. Familiarity with containers, cluster orchestration, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, or high-performance computing.

Cross-component risks are found earlier, debug cycles are shorter, and coverage ownership is explicit. Test automation and release infrastructure shorten feedback loops without sacrificing signal quality. Engineers across the organization are more effective because RIT provides solid technical direction, tooling, and mentorship.

This role follows a hybrid schedule and requires in-office presence three days per week. Fully remote work is not available.

Office locations: People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras, we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. 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. Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.

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📌 AI Inference Core - SDET Technical Lead, Release Integration Testing (Winnipeg)
🏢 Cerebras Systems
📍 Winnipeg