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Cerebras SystemsCerebras SystemsSunnyvale, CA

Sr. Technical Staff

Performs post-silicon validation, testing, and debugging of wafer-scale AI chips and high-speed interfaces. Develops automation scripts in Python/Bash and collaborates on hardware bring-up and system diagnostics. Requires Master's in EE/CE and 3+ years experience.

250k – 275k
HybridHardware Engineering

About the role

Job Duties

  • Post silicon validation of Cerebras Wafer Scale Engines. Test and debug issues on new silicon.
  • Test, analyze, and characterize high-speed serial interfaces to verify compliance with hardware specifications, record performance data, and recommend design modifications to optimize functionality.
  • Work with the silicon and operations team to test, bring-up and run burn-in on wafer scale systems.
  • Support manufacturing operations to utilize the wafer bring up flow. Perform wafer bring-ups, diagnose and debug problems encountered.
  • Develop and implement hardware to ensure compliance with design specifications.
  • Collaborate with hardware design engineers and system software engineers to review specifications and to recommend changes that will improve the quality and verifiability of the hardware designs.
  • Create and maintain automated regression test scripts, using Python and/or bash, that ensure that all tests are run and pass after each change to the design, testbench, tests, or reference model.
  • Work with system team members to diagnose system related failures. Understand the key system interfaces to FPGA’s, power and cooling, and apply that knowledge to the debug of silicon features.
  • Development of debug tools in Python to program and analyze the behavior of the Wafer Scale Engine.
  • Development of wafer bring up flow utilizing Python and shell scripts to capture the steps required to bring up a wafer in a logical easy to use flow.
  • Documentation of issues found, tools and flow.

Minimum Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 3 years of experience as Application Engineer, Sr. Technical Staff, Hardware Engineer, or a related occupation required.

Required Skills

  • Electrical Signal Integrity Analysis
  • Hardware Bring-up & Debug
  • Functional and Electrical characterization
  • Test automation using scripting language
  • High Speed Interfaces & Protocols including Ethernet, CPRI, or Interlaken

Additional Information

Salary Range: $250,000.00 per year to $275,000.00 per year
Telecommuting permitted.

Skills

PythonBashSignal Integrity AnalysisHardware Bring-UpHardware DebugTest AutomationHigh Speed InterfacesEthernetCpriInterlakenFpga

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