# Sr. Technical Staff

**Company:** [Cerebras Systems](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cerebras-systems)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $250k – $275k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Bash, Signal Integrity Analysis, Hardware Bring-Up, Hardware Debug, Test Automation, High Speed Interfaces, Ethernet, Cpri, Interlaken, Fpga
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**.

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