Staff Cloud Capacity Planner
Cerebras Systems, Inc.Visit Cerebras Systems, Inc. website
Cerebras builds wafer-scale AI computing systems and a cloud inference platform for training, fine-tuning, and serving AI models.
Series F+Recently funded
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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 turn business and AI infrastructure demand into an integrated data center capacity plan. You'll determine where capacity is needed, when it must be available and which constraints could affect delivery, working with leadership, engineering, program management, supply chain, finance and commercial teams to guide site expansion, equipment planning and capacity allocation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in capacity planning, infrastructure planning, operations research, supply and demand planning or a related analytical role
- Experience building demand and supply models across multiple locations, including scenario analysis
- Understanding of data center capacity constraints across power, cooling, space, hardware, networking and deployment readiness
- Strong SQL and spreadsheet modeling skills
- Ability to convert forecasts into recommendations and influence cross-functional decisions
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, operations research, mathematics, supply chain or related field, or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain near-term and long-range demand and supply forecasts by site and region
- Reconcile customer commitments, expected growth, utilization and engineering plans, and document planning assumptions
- Maintain a clear view of installed, commissioned, allocated, available and planned capacity
- Model capacity gaps and expansion scenarios incorporating utility timelines, construction milestones, hardware availability and supplier lead times
- Recommend when to expand, reserve or rebalance capacity and partner with Finance on capital requirements and costs
- Partner with delivery TPMs to translate approved capacity plans into site requirements and milestones
- Work with Data & Tooling partners to establish planning datasets, reconciliation checks and dashboards
- Lead recurring capacity reviews and present decisions and recovery options to leadership
