The opportunity
We are hiring a Senior Performance Engineer to join our Product team. You are an expert on state-of-the-art inference performance and will serve as our resident expert on how Cerebras stacks up against alternative inference providers on both price and performance.
What you'll do
Design standardized benchmark suites for inference workloads (code: generation, summarization, multi-turn conversation, agentic tool use) that enable fair, reproducible comparisons.
Stay current with GPU optimization communities (CUDA, Triton, TensorRT) and: evaluate how new kernel fusions, flash-attention variants, and quantization techniques shift performance ceilings.
Build and continuously update a competitive pricing model covering: token-based pricing, throughput-based pricing, and enterprise contract structures across major inference providers.
Monitor industry announcements, pricing changes, and new product launches.: Synthesize findings into actionable briefs for the Sales and Product teams.
Partner with Sales to build deal-specific competitive analyses showing total: cost of ownership and performance advantages for enterprise prospects.
Collaborate with Product and Engineering to identify where competitors are: closing gaps or where Cerebras has underappreciated advantages.
What they're looking for
- Track third-party benchmarking sources (Artificial Analysis, InferenceX) and: ensure Cerebras is well-represented and accurately measured.
