Lead Engineer, Critical Facility Operations
Cerebras builds wafer-scale AI computing systems and a cloud inference platform for training, fine-tuning, and serving AI models.
About Cerebras Systems, Inc.
Cerebras Systems is an AI-infrastructure company founded in 2015. It sells rack-scale wafer-scale computing systems and provides cloud-based, API-accessible AI inference alongside on-premises deployments.
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About the Role
You will provide technical leadership and authority for the safe, reliable operation of critical data center environments across a global footprint. You will serve as a technical escalation point, troubleshoot CDUs and cooling systems, evaluate environmental controls, lead incident investigations and root cause analysis, support commissioning of new sites, and work with product and engineering teams to improve facility-to-product interfaces. Expect heavy travel to sites in the first year, with up to 50% travel.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant data center experience with responsibility for live, mission-critical environments
- Deep expertise in environmental controls, including hands-on experience with CDUs and data center cooling systems
- Strong understanding of data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure
- Ability to assess interconnected systems and engage specialists when needed
- Working knowledge of data center white space including servers, storage, networking, racks
- Proven experience leading incident response, RCA, commissioning, or operational acceptance
- Engineering degree, relevant technical qualification, or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical escalation resource for physical infrastructure operational issues
- Assess and troubleshoot CDUs and associated cooling systems
- Evaluate environmental monitoring and controls, including building management systems, power monitoring, sensors, alarms and interlocks
- Support electrical and mechanical incident response, lead root cause analysis and develop corrective actions
- Review maintenance strategies, operating procedures and proposed changes
- Support commissioning and operational acceptance of new sites
- Translate product requirements into operating limits and influence product improvements
- Partner with CFOps program management on program development, providing technical validation
- Perform operational engineering assessments of prospective sites and provider proposals
- Support development of operational and engineering standards and equipment-interface requirements
- Partner with Product Engineering, EPC, Build & Deploy and manufacturers to validate facility-to-product interfaces
- Develop risk-based maintenance requirements and facility-spares recommendations
- Define and witness functional, failover and recovery testing
- Establish technical baselines and maintain operating documentation
- Provide technical review and approval, escalate unacceptable risks, and stop work when conditions are unsafe
Benefits
- Fully remote work