Release Qualification Team Lead

About the role

The Release Qualification Team Lead will own the weekly end‑to‑end release qualification for Cerebras' Cloud, Inference Platform, and Inference API. You will turn an ad‑hoc, reactive process into a predictable, owned discipline that scales with the business.

Key responsibilities

• Drive weekly end‑to‑end release qualification as the accountable owner.
• Build and run a dedicated release qualification team with planned triage capacity.
• Own the full release qualification lifecycle, including test planning, release planning, documentation and tooling.
• Lead triage, debugging and escalation during release windows, deciding what blocks a release.
• Expand end‑to‑end coverage across Cloud, Inference Platform and Inference API.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in software integration, development or quality engineering, with prior release qualification experience.
• Proven ownership of end‑to‑end release processes for complex, distributed systems.
• Strong track record of debugging complex issues under release‑blocking time pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional initiatives across multiple organisations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting to engineering and leadership audiences.

Required skills

• Python programming.
• Automation and building reusable test frameworks.
• Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure testing.
• Microservices deployment, debugging and orchestration at scale.
• Hardware‑backed inference services and ML workloads (LLM, multimodal).