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Cerebras Systems
Ultra-fast AI inference hardware. Cerebras builds wafer-scale chips and rack-scale systems that deliver significantly faster inference performance than GPU-based alternatives for frontier AI models.
AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networking501-1,000 peoplecerebras.ai ↗
Updated 23 October 2026
Hiring now
From Cerebras Systems's own jobs board, checked every week.
Still mostly building the product. 86 of its 120 open roles are in engineering and research.
Where the roles are
Against its sector
Cerebras Systems has the second most open roles in AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networking, after Lumilens. 25 of the 38 active companies in this sub-sector are advertising roles.
Funding
Cerebras Systems announced a $1 billion Series H in February 2026, led by Tiger Global.
Source: Cerebras Systems's announcement
Who Cerebras Systems competes with
The other active companies we file under AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networking, sorted by how much they are hiring.
Where this fits
The silicon and the networking underneath everything else. Accelerators, interconnect, and the hardware challenging the incumbent. It is the only sub-sector on these maps where that is true.
We track hiring and team changes across all 183 companies in Model Serving & Compute.
Our talent report for this sector shows how Cerebras Systems's team compares with its competitors.
What is in it:
- Every company's team size, side by side, grouped by sub-sector
- Who grew their team over the last year, and by how much
- Who is losing people: attrition for each company, against the sector average
- Who is hiring right now, and how many open roles each has
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