# Senior Staff AI Accelerator Performance Architect at Cerebras Systems

- Company: Cerebras Systems
- What the company does: Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
- Company website: https://www.cerebras.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cerebras/d1754f03-8011-40ff-b85c-691abf23d59c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cerebras-systems-senior-staff-ai-accelerator-performance-architect/

## About the role

Own and evolve performance models and modeling methodologies for next-generation accelerator and system architectures. Build and extend analytical, simulation-based or trace-driven models across workloads, architectural features and product generations.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of experience in performance analysis, performance modeling or architecture exploration for CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators or other high-performance computing systems
- Strong understanding of hardware architecture developed through hardware, compiler, kernel, runtime or system-performance work
- Experience developing analytical, simulation-based or trace-driven performance models using Python, C++ or similar environments
- Solid understanding of processor architecture, memory systems, interconnects, parallel execution and hardware resource constraints
- Ability to move between kernel-level behavior and end-to-end application or system performance
- Experience profiling workloads, forming performance hypotheses and validating them with quantitative evidence

Tags: Hardware