Software Engineer - New Grad 2026
Cerebras Systems4 months ago
Toronto, CanadaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced engineers on systems and infrastructure challenges.
- Design, implement, test, and debug software affecting system performance and reliability.
- Contribute to low-level software components interacting with hardware and networking infrastructure.
- Work across multiple layers of an integrated AI-accelerated platform.
- Participate in debugging, performance optimization, and system bring-up activities.
- Develop tools and infrastructure that improve observability, reliability, and scalability.
- Work cross-functionally with hardware, firmware, compiler, and infrastructure teams.
Requirements
- Be recently graduated or currently enrolled in a university program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, graduating in 2026.
- Demonstrate proficiency in C/C++.
- Have interest or exposure to systems/socket programming, networking, embedded systems, operating systems, device drivers, distributed systems, or network performance.
- Be interested in working close to hardware and networking and learning low-level engineering concepts.
- Demonstrate strong communication, collaboration, attention to detail, and willingness to learn.
- Preferred qualifications include Linux systems programming or debugging experience.
- Preferred qualifications include familiarity with TCP/RDMA protocols, RPCs, and packet trace tools such as Wireshark.
- Preferred qualifications include exposure to networking concepts, device drivers, embedded systems, or distributed infrastructure.
- Preferred qualifications include familiarity with performance optimization or concurrent programming concepts.
- Interest in large-scale AI infrastructure and accelerated computing systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement based in Toronto, Ontario, or Sunnyvale, California.
- Opportunities to work on a breakthrough AI platform and one of the fastest AI supercomputers.
- Opportunities to publish and open source AI research.
- Startup vitality with stated job stability.
- A non-corporate work culture supporting individual beliefs, continuous learning, growth, and inclusion.
About Cerebras Systems
Cerebras Systems designs and sells AI compute systems built around its wafer-scale WSE-3 processor, delivered as the CS-3 appliance and via the Cerebras Cloud. It targets enterprises, model labs, and government users needing fast training and inference, and offers on‑prem and cloud deployments. Privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company announced a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to deploy large-scale inference capacity.