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Product Manager, Strategic Verticals

Cerebras Systems San Francisco, California, United States Full-time Product Management Posted Jun 10, 2026
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What it’s like to work at Cerebras Systems

AI chip design & inference · Sunnyvale

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Employee Rating
3.8
Work-Life Balance
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Open Roles
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What employees love

  • Collaborative culture with strong mentorship
  • Autonomy in small self-managed teams

What could be better

  • Top-down decisions with aggressive timelines
  • Recent layoffs and workload concerns
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About the Role

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs.

Cerebras' current customers include top 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.

Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, 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.

Our customers span leading AI Native companies, Fortune 500 Enterprises, Sovereign AI and Federal programs, and leading research institutions. Our mission is to deliver the platform that unlocks the next generation of AI applications, providing the fundamentally new capability to leverage the most intelligent models at real-time serving speeds.

Why Cerebras?

Here at Cerebras, we have built the world’s first wafer-scale compute platform and software stack, purpose-designed to accelerate generative AI by over 10-20x what is possible on legacy processors today. AI developers are limited today by the constant tradeoffs between model quality, speed, and cost, and Cerebras’ mission is to remove these limitations to unlock AI creativity and potential.

About The Role

As a founding member of the Strategic Verticals product team at Cerebras, you are the tip of the spear for our company. You’ll embed with our most strategic customers, from AI-native startups shipping 0-to-1 products to Fortune 500 enterprises transforming their industries, to translate and guide their ambitions into blazing-fast, production-ready AI solutions. 

Think of yourself as part product leader, part technical expert, and part GTM strategist: 

  1. Own the outcome – From first whiteboard session to scaled deployment, you are directly accountable for customer success, adoption, and expansion.
  2. Design for speed – Craft PoCs that showcase Cerebras’ latency super-powers, advise on model selection / fine-tuning, and benchmark end-to-end performance.
  3. Navigate complexities – pitch new ideas, align internal and customer stakeholders, unblock hurdles, and convert customer interest into long-term, thriving partnerships.
  4. Shape the roadmap – Distill customer insights into structured product feedback requirements, influencing future software features and chip and cluster designs.

Successful candidates will be passionate about creative problem solving and idea generation, learning and embedding into new domains, building relationships, and delighting customers.

You’ll have the opportunity to learn about and enable some of the most impactful AI products in the world, with industry-leading organizations across each vertical. You will get to work closely with a tight-knit product team, in a fast-moving but supportive environment. Your scope and career here will be driven by your passion, ability, and impact – not by your seniority or prior experience.

Key Responsibilities

You will:

Skills & Qualifications 

Preferred requirements

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

Location 

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:

  1. Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
  2. Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
  3. Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
  4. Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
  5. Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.

Read our blog: Five Reasons to Join Cerebras in 2026.

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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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the work-life balance like at Cerebras Systems?
Cerebras Systems has a work-life balance score of 3.8/5 based on employee reviews. This is about average for the AI/tech industry.
What is Cerebras Systems’s culture like?
Cerebras Systems is characterized by these culture values: eng-driven, learning, product-impact. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 4/5. Collaborative culture with strong mentorship
How many open roles does Cerebras Systems have?
Cerebras Systems currently has 99 open roles across departments including engineering, product, sales, and more. Roles are refreshed daily from their careers page.
Is this role remote-friendly?
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