Staff Technical Program Manager, Data Center New Product Introduction
Cerebras · Sunnyvale, CA
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## About Cerebras Cerebras Systems builds the world’s largest AI chip—an architecture designed to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds, enabling real-time iteration and agentic computation. Cerebras works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and AI-native startups. ## About the Team The Cerebras Data Center team brings the infrastructure behind our AI systems online. We work across facility design, power and cooling, hardware, networking, supply chain, deployment, and operations to deliver reliable capacity. As our infrastructure expands, we build programs and repeatable processes that help teams execute across multiple sites. ## About the Role Cerebras is seeking a **Staff Technical Program Manager** to lead **Data Center New Product Introduction (NPI)**—preparing new AI systems and infrastructure designs for reliable deployment at scale. You will connect **hardware and systems engineering** with **facility design, supply chain, networking, commissioning, and operations** to turn new technical requirements into a repeatable deployment approach. You will own the integrated readiness program from early requirements and initial deployments through operational acceptance and broader rollout. **Success looks like:** identifying integration risks early, closing readiness gaps, and ensuring each new introduction can be deployed and supported consistently across sites. ## Responsibilities - Own the cross-functional NPI plan for new system generations, rack configurations, and supporting infrastructure, with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, and readiness criteria. - Translate engineering specifications into deployment requirements (power, cooling, space, rack layout, networking, cabling, installation, serviceability, and site interfaces). - Drive design and readiness reviews; surface gaps between product design, facility capabilities, and operational requirements. - Coordinate initial deployment and validation plans (site readiness, equipment availability, installation sequencing, test coverage, issue triage, and acceptance evidence). - Maintain an integrated risk and issue register; drive resolution of compatibility, quality, configuration, and schedule blockers. - Lead change control across specifications, bills of materials, firmware/software dependencies, deployment procedures, and site requirements—assessing downstream impacts before rollout. - Define repeatable deployment packages (approved configurations, acceptance checklists, runbooks, training, spares requirements, and operational handoff). - Drive readiness recommendations and executive escalations; incorporate lessons learned into subsequent rollouts and track improvements in deployment cycle time and issue recurrence. ## Required Qualifications - Experience leading complex NPI, systems integration, hardware infrastructure, or deployment programs from early requirements through production/operational readiness. - Track record of Staff-level program ownership across engineering and operations teams, resolving ambiguous requirements and driving decisions across organizational boundaries. - Technical understanding of data center systems and how compute, networking, power, cooling, rack integration, and facility readiness relate. - Experience defining readiness gates, validation plans, acceptance criteria, and issue resolution processes for new technology introductions. - Ability to manage configuration dependencies, engineering changes, critical p
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