Responsibilities

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.
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.

Lead Engineer, Critical Facility Operations at Cerebras · LumiJobs

Lead Engineer, Critical Facility Operations

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Company

Cerebras

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