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Staff Software Engineer, Inference API

Cerebras · Toronto, CAN

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build production inference APIs powering ultra-fast disaggregated AI serving.
  • Deliver unified request semantics across GPU prefill and Wafer-Scale decode.
  • Enable new foundation models with streaming, structured outputs and tool calling.

What they offer

  • Build breakthrough AI platform beyond GPU constraints
  • Publish and open-source cutting-edge AI research
  • Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers
  • Job stability with startup vitality and non-corporate culture

Ideal candidate

A hands-on ML systems engineer who loves turning fast-evolving model capabilities into durable production APIs and thrives at the intersection of distributed systems and user-facing design.

Requirements

  • Understanding of model-specific tokenization, chat templates, generation configuration, logits processing, stopping criteria, tool calling, structured generation, and constrained decoding
  • Experience with disaggregated prefill/decode architectures, KV-cache transfer, prefix caching, chunked prefill, memory-aware admission control, or request scheduling
  • Experience designing, building, or operating production APIs and services for machine learning, large language models, or other data-intensive applications
  • Familiarity with reduced-precision inference and quantization formats such as BF16, FP8, FP4, INT8, or INT4

Lab profile

About Cerebras

Builds wafer-scale AI chips and cloud systems for ultra-fast training and inference.

What they build

  • Wafer-scale AI chips
  • AI training systems
  • Cloud inference service

Known for

  • 56x larger chips than GPUs
  • 10x faster inference than GPU clouds
  • Industry-leading training speed
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