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