Cerebras
Principal ML Investigator
Sunnyvale, CA · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Dec 12, 2025
- Experience
- No number of years specified.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science or related field.
About the job
Build and lead a machine-learning research team, setting its agenda and developing algorithms and models for Cerebras hardware and production use.
What you'll do
- Build a team and organize advanced development topics into a cohesive research agenda.
- Adapt algorithms and model architectures to Cerebras hardware; train, tune, and evaluate models for production scenarios.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners on research and next-generation hardware and software architectures.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong grasp of ML theory in one or more listed areas.
- Proven experience engineering ML systems for scale or production deployment.
- Experience leading a team of researchers or engineers.
Nice to have
- Track record of patents or publications in top-tier conferences or journals.
- Experience with LLMs, distributed training, training-speed optimization, or analytical system-performance modeling.
Tools
Cerebras platform, GPT family, Llama, Triton
AI focus
Research and advanced development in post-training and reinforcement learning, dataset curation, LLM pretraining, sparsity, and domains including coding and reasoning agents, generative language, image, and video.
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