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Location
Remote (US)
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Datacenters
Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services.
This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.
Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.
The Role
Reporting to the Director of Critical Facility Operations, the Lead Engineer, Critical Facility Operations provides technical leadership and authority for the safe, reliable operation of Cerebras’ critical environments across our global footprint. This role combines extensive data center operating and engineering experience with deep expertise in critical cooling and environmental controls, including coolant distribution units (CDUs), and strong experience with data center mechanical and electrical infrastructure. This role will immediately support operational sites and coming builds, lead complex troubleshooting and turn their experience into program development and improvements in operations, availability and liaison with our product teams for end-to-end resilience and reliability.
Responsibilities
Serve as a technical escalation resource for physical infrastructure operational issues, partnering with site teams, lessors, equipment manufacturers and service providers, as well as internal partners.
Assess and troubleshoot CDUs and associated cooling systems, including flow, pressure, temperature, water quality, heat exchange, redundancy and facility-to-equipment interfaces.
Evaluate environmental monitoring and controls, including building management systems, electrical power monitoring, sensors, alarms, interlocks and sequences of operation.
Support electrical and mechanical incident response, lead technical investigation and root cause analysis, and develop corrective actions with clear verification criteria.
Review maintenance strategies, operating procedures and proposed changes for technical adequacy, operational risk and effects on redundancy.
Support commissioning and operational acceptance of new sites through review of test evidence, maintainability, controls performance, documentation and unresolved deficiencies.
Translate product requirements into operating limits and influence product improvements.
Work in partnership with CFOps program management on program development and maturity, providing technical expertise and validation (engineering approval).
Perform operational engineering assessments of prospective sites and provider proposals, identifying limitations in redundancy, maintainability, controls, recovery capability and contractual operating commitments.
Support development and maintenance of growing operational and engineering standards, approved operating limits and equipment-interface requirements, including electrical distribution, liquid cooling, and controls.
Partner with Product Engineering, EPC, Build & Deploy and equipment manufacturers to validate facility-to-product interfaces, investigate coupled failure modes, and translate operating experience into product and facility improvements.
Develop risk-based maintenance requirements and facility-spares recommendations; assess provider maintenance scopes and completed-work evidence for technical adequacy.
Define and witness appropriate functional, failover and recovery testing, verifying that control sequences, alarms and redundancy behave as intended under normal and degraded conditions.
Establish technical baselines and maintain accurate operating documentation, including system dependencies, approved settings, procedures and engineering deviations; assess fleet exposure to recurring defects and equipment obsolescence
Provide technical review and approval within delegated authority, escalate unacceptable risks, and require work to stop when conditions are unsafe or outside approved operating limits during delivery and/or operations.
How the role will grow
As our portfolio expands, this role will evolve and help grow the regional engineering operations program, team and scope, and has the opportunity to grow as an individual contributor or in a leadership position: setting technical operating practices, mentoring engineers and site teams, leading reliability improvement across sites, and contributing to global standards and future facility requirements. This role will involve heavy travel to sites in the first year of the role. Travel expectations, especially long-term are negotiable.
Team environment and culture
Cerebras is scaling at a tremendous pace and requires a team player who can handle a balance between driving maturity for the future and handling near-term ambiguity with a bias toward getting things done for the good of the team, with the goal of building and maturing the program over time into a resilient, effective and efficient operations organization. The ideal candidate will strike a balance between contributing, making sound decisions when needed, and providing data, information and clarity for others to make sound decisions, and be able to navigate between the three.
Qualifications
10+ years of relevant data center experience, with substantial responsibility for live, mission-critical environments.
Deep expertise in 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 how these systems interact.
Ability to assess interconnected systems, recognize technical limitations, and engage qualified specialists when needed.
Working knowledge of data center white space, including servers, storage, networking equipment, racks, and associated data hall infrastructure.
Proven experience leading technical incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), commissioning, or operational acceptance activities.
Engineering degree, relevant technical qualification, or equivalent practical experience.
Location:
Fully remote, with up to 50% travel required.
Why Join Cerebras
People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras, we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:
Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!
Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.
Location
Remote (US)
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Datacenters
Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services.
This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.
Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.
The Role
Reporting to the Director of Critical Facility Operations, the Lead Engineer, Critical Facility Operations provides technical leadership and authority for the safe, reliable operation of Cerebras’ critical environments across our global footprint. This role combines extensive data center operating and engineering experience with deep expertise in critical cooling and environmental controls, including coolant distribution units (CDUs), and strong experience with data center mechanical and electrical infrastructure. This role will immediately support operational sites and coming builds, lead complex troubleshooting and turn their experience into program development and improvements in operations, availability and liaison with our product teams for end-to-end resilience and reliability.
Responsibilities
Serve as a technical escalation resource for physical infrastructure operational issues, partnering with site teams, lessors, equipment manufacturers and service providers, as well as internal partners.
Assess and troubleshoot CDUs and associated cooling systems, including flow, pressure, temperature, water quality, heat exchange, redundancy and facility-to-equipment interfaces.
Evaluate environmental monitoring and controls, including building management systems, electrical power monitoring, sensors, alarms, interlocks and sequences of operation.
Support electrical and mechanical incident response, lead technical investigation and root cause analysis, and develop corrective actions with clear verification criteria.
Review maintenance strategies, operating procedures and proposed changes for technical adequacy, operational risk and effects on redundancy.
Support commissioning and operational acceptance of new sites through review of test evidence, maintainability, controls performance, documentation and unresolved deficiencies.
Translate product requirements into operating limits and influence product improvements.
Work in partnership with CFOps program management on program development and maturity, providing technical expertise and validation (engineering approval).
Perform operational engineering assessments of prospective sites and provider proposals, identifying limitations in redundancy, maintainability, controls, recovery capability and contractual operating commitments.
Support development and maintenance of growing operational and engineering standards, approved operating limits and equipment-interface requirements, including electrical distribution, liquid cooling, and controls.
Partner with Product Engineering, EPC, Build & Deploy and equipment manufacturers to validate facility-to-product interfaces, investigate coupled failure modes, and translate operating experience into product and facility improvements.
Develop risk-based maintenance requirements and facility-spares recommendations; assess provider maintenance scopes and completed-work evidence for technical adequacy.
Define and witness appropriate functional, failover and recovery testing, verifying that control sequences, alarms and redundancy behave as intended under normal and degraded conditions.
Establish technical baselines and maintain accurate operating documentation, including system dependencies, approved settings, procedures and engineering deviations; assess fleet exposure to recurring defects and equipment obsolescence
Provide technical review and approval within delegated authority, escalate unacceptable risks, and require work to stop when conditions are unsafe or outside approved operating limits during delivery and/or operations.
How the role will grow
As our portfolio expands, this role will evolve and help grow the regional engineering operations program, team and scope, and has the opportunity to grow as an individual contributor or in a leadership position: setting technical operating practices, mentoring engineers and site teams, leading reliability improvement across sites, and contributing to global standards and future facility requirements. This role will involve heavy travel to sites in the first year of the role. Travel expectations, especially long-term are negotiable.
Team environment and culture
Cerebras is scaling at a tremendous pace and requires a team player who can handle a balance between driving maturity for the future and handling near-term ambiguity with a bias toward getting things done for the good of the team, with the goal of building and maturing the program over time into a resilient, effective and efficient operations organization. The ideal candidate will strike a balance between contributing, making sound decisions when needed, and providing data, information and clarity for others to make sound decisions, and be able to navigate between the three.
Qualifications
10+ years of relevant data center experience, with substantial responsibility for live, mission-critical environments.
Deep expertise in 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 how these systems interact.
Ability to assess interconnected systems, recognize technical limitations, and engage qualified specialists when needed.
Working knowledge of data center white space, including servers, storage, networking equipment, racks, and associated data hall infrastructure.
Proven experience leading technical incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), commissioning, or operational acceptance activities.
Engineering degree, relevant technical qualification, or equivalent practical experience.
Location:
Fully remote, with up to 50% travel required.
Why Join Cerebras
People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras, we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:
Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!
Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote lead operations engineer jobs.
- Five or more years of operations or process engineering experience in a relevant industry
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams or managing direct reports
- Proficiency with Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement methodologies
- Experience with ERP or operations management systems such as SAP or Oracle
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, industrial engineering, or a related technical field
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred by most employers
Tips for Your Remote Lead Operations Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote lead operations engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through location-filtered listings.
Show async communication skills up front
Remote employers for this role screen for written clarity early. Use your cover letter and application materials to demonstrate how you document runbooks, write incident postmortems, and communicate system status to distributed stakeholders without defaulting to a call.
Highlight remote-ready tooling on your resume
Name the specific platforms you use to run operations remotely, such as PagerDuty, Terraform, Datadog, or Confluence. Remote hiring managers scan for these to confirm you can contribute without an office environment and in-person handoffs.
Prepare for async-first remote interviews
Many remote-first companies run initial screens via recorded video questions or written take-homes before a live call. Practice explaining past incidents and system improvements in writing, since your ability to communicate asynchronously often determines whether you advance.
Remote Lead Operations Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote lead operations engineer job?
Target companies built around distributed teams, such as remote-first SaaS firms and cloud infrastructure providers, because they hire lead operations engineers to manage systems and processes without on-site oversight. Remote employers screen hard for async written communication, self-directed project management, and hands-on experience with incident response and automation tooling. Candidates who document past reliability improvements or operational wins in concrete terms consistently stand out.
Which companies hire remote lead operations engineers?
Remote lead operations engineer roles are posted by Target, Humana, and Arcfield and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first technology firms, distributed logistics platforms, and cloud-native companies are the most consistent sources of these openings.
Can you get a remote lead operations engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level lead operations engineer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to troubleshoot and prioritize independently from day one. Focus on companies with strong async documentation cultures, which tend to invest more in onboarding remote hires. Showing a home lab setup, open-source contributions, or a portfolio of automation scripts gives hiring managers something concrete to evaluate instead of a resume gap.
Do you need a degree for remote lead operations engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in this role weigh demonstrated systems knowledge, hands-on operational experience, and relevant certifications in areas like cloud infrastructure or DevOps practices more heavily than a diploma. A history of leading incident response, reducing downtime, or building reliable deployment pipelines can carry more weight than a degree on its own.
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