Cerebras
Principal Network Systems Architect
Sunnyvale, CA · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- Typically 12 or more years of relevant industry experience; principal-level technical ownership from architecture into implementation or deployment.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Defines and drives the architecture and roadmap for Cerebras scale-up networks and their interfaces to scale-out and customer-facing networks, from workload analysis through implementation and qualification.
What you'll do
- Set network architecture and roadmap; define fabric topology, protocols, and switch behavior.
- Derive measurable network requirements with cross-functional teams and evaluate designs using models, simulations, prototypes, and lab data.
- Write specifications, lead design reviews, and guide decisions through implementation, bring-up, and qualification.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 or more years of relevant industry experience, including principal-level ownership of a major networking, switching, accelerator, or HPC system from architecture into implementation or deployment.
- Deep expertise in low-latency or proprietary interconnects, fabric protocols, switch architecture, or a closely related area, including data-plane concepts.
- Working knowledge of Ethernet, IP, and RDMA; conceptual familiarity with BGP and EVPN.
Nice to have
- Experience with accelerator interconnects such as NVLink, xGMI, TPU ICI, Xe Link, or UALink-class systems.
- Experience with switch ASICs, NICs or DPUs, AI/HPC communication stacks, scale-out and I/O technologies, or workload-driven modeling and simulation.
Tools
Ethernet, IP, RDMA, BGP, EVPN, NVLink, xGMI, UALink
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