Power Manufacturing Test Development Engineer
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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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will develop, implement, and optimize automated manufacturing test solutions for advanced computing hardware. You will design test strategies and fixtures, integrate test equipment and automation software, support production ramps, troubleshoot failures, improve test processes, and communicate results and risks to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in manufacturing test development, hardware validation, test automation, or production engineering.
- Proficiency in Python for test automation, hardware control, data processing, and diagnostic development.
- Hands-on experience testing electronic assemblies, computer systems, embedded hardware, or complex electromechanical products.
- Experience integrating automated test software with laboratory or manufacturing test equipment.
- Understanding of digital electronics, power electronics, communication interfaces, and hardware bring-up.
- Experience with contract manufacturers and outsourced manufacturing operations.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated test systems for advanced computing hardware.
- Design manufacturing test strategies for board-level testing, system integration, diagnostics, and final acceptance.
- Develop test procedures, specifications, fixtures, and documentation for NPI and production ramp.
- Define test coverage requirements, acceptance criteria, and pass/fail limits.
- Evaluate and implement test methodologies, instrumentation, and automation frameworks.
- Integrate test equipment, programmable power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscopes, multimeters, communication interfaces, and hardware management controllers.
- Support NPI builds, pilot production, manufacturing qualification, and high-volume production ramp.
- Troubleshoot manufacturing test failures and implement corrective actions.
- Drive improvements to test cycle time, station utilization, process repeatability, and manufacturing cost.
- Verify that test solutions are repeatable, maintainable, and suitable for production-site deployment.
- Support test station deployment, equipment qualification, operator training, and process documentation.
- Communicate test results, production risks, and improvement opportunities.