Lead Engineer, Critical Facility Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership and expertise to ensure the safe and reliable operation of critical environments across Cerebras’ global footprint.

• Act as a technical escalation point for issues related to physical infrastructure operations.

• Analyze and troubleshoot Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs) and related cooling systems, taking into account factors like flow, pressure, temperature, water quality, heat exchange, redundancy, and facility-to-equipment interfaces.

• Assess environmental monitoring and control systems, which include building management systems, electrical power monitoring, sensors, alarms, interlocks, and operational sequences.

• Assist in electrical and mechanical incident response, lead technical investigations and root cause analyses, and create corrective action plans.

• Review maintenance strategies, operating procedures, and proposed modifications for technical soundness and operational risk.

• Support the commissioning and operational acceptance of new sites.

• Convert product requirements into operating limits and contribute to product enhancements.

• Collaborate with Critical Facility Operations program management on program development and enhancement.

• Conduct operational engineering assessments of potential sites and provider proposals.

• Develop and maintain operational and engineering standards, established operating limits, and equipment-interface specifications.

• Work alongside Product Engineering, EPC, Build & Deploy, and equipment manufacturers to validate facility-to-product interfaces and explore coupled failure modes.

• Create risk-based maintenance requirements and recommendations for facility spares.

• Define and oversee functional, failover, and recovery testing.

• Establish technical baselines and ensure accurate operating documentation is maintained.

• Provide technical review and approval within delegated authority and escalate any unacceptable risks.

• Contribute to the growth of the regional engineering operations program, team, and scope; mentor engineers and site teams while leading reliability enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of relevant data center experience, with significant responsibility for live, mission-critical environments.

• In-depth knowledge of environmental controls, including hands-on experience with Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs) and data center cooling systems.

• Strong practical understanding of data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure and their interrelationships.

• Ability to evaluate interconnected systems, identify technical limitations, and engage qualified specialists as necessary.

• Familiarity with data center white space, including servers, storage, networking equipment, racks, and associated data hall infrastructure.

• Demonstrated experience in leading technical incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), commissioning, or operational acceptance activities.

• Engineering degree, relevant technical qualification, or equivalent practical experience.

• Willingness and capability to travel up to 50% of the time.

• Must meet applicable U.S. export compliance requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Job security combined with the dynamism of a startup environment.

• A straightforward, non-corporate work culture that values individual beliefs.

• Opportunities for continuous learning, professional growth, and support.

• Chance to publish and open source cutting-edge AI research.

• Opportunity to work with one of the fastest AI supercomputers globally.

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Negotiable travel expectations, especially for long-term commitments.