Software development jobs in Canada

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Counted Sep 21, 2026

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Open jobs: 4,103
Employers: 1,528

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $116,403Across 445 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $139,403Across 122 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $55.65Across 70 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 10%413 listings
Hybrid: 40%1,641 listings
On-site: 49%2,008 listings

Not specified: 1% (41 listings)

Employers hiring include Amazon (117), Genetec (63), RBC (60).

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These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

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Cerebras Systems

Staff Software Engineer, Inference API

Remote, Canada

Job type: Full-time
Workplace: Remote
Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial individual-contributor ownership of production software or distributed systems.
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 21, 2026

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Original job description

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.

About the Role

Cerebras is building a new generation of disaggregated AI inference systems that combine GPU-accelerated prefill with ultra-fast decode on the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine.

We are hiring a Software Engineer to build and evolve the ML API layer that makes this heterogeneous serving system accessible, reliable, and easy to use. You will work across our inference APIs, model integration layer, request-routing services, vLLM-based GPU runtime, and Cerebras inference platform to deliver a consistent experience across models and accelerator backends.

This role sits at the intersection of machine learning systems, API design, model serving, and distributed systems. You will enable new model architectures and inference capabilities, define stable user-facing behavior, and ensure that features such as streaming, sampling, tool use, structured outputs, multimodal inputs, and model configuration behave correctly and consistently in production.

You will work closely with model enablement, compiler, runtime, cloud infrastructure, product, and customer-facing teams. This is a hands-on software engineering role for someone who enjoys turning rapidly evolving ML capabilities into durable, production-quality APIs.

Responsibilities

Build production ML inference APIs. Design, implement, and maintain APIs for chat completions, text generation, streaming, model configuration, tool calling, structured outputs, multimodal inputs, and other emerging inference capabilities.
Deliver a unified serving experience. Create consistent request and response semantics across GPU prefill, Cerebras decode, and other heterogeneous inference backends.
Enable new models and capabilities. Integrate emerging foundation models, tokenizers, prompt formats, sampling methods, attention variants, multimodal inputs, and model-specific features into the serving platform.
Own API compatibility and evolution. Maintain compatibility with widely adopted inference interfaces while designing Cerebras-specific extensions. Establish clear versioning, deprecation, validation, and backward-compatibility practices.
Integrate with model-serving runtimes. Extend and integrate custom inference services with vLLM, PyTorch, Hugging Face libraries, the AMD ROCm stack, and Cerebras runtime components.
Support disaggregated inference. Build the control and data paths required to coordinate GPU prefill with Cerebras decode, including request routing, state transfer, error handling, retries, and lifecycle management.
Improve serving performance. Optimize streaming behavior, time to first token, request latency, throughput, batching, serialization, tokenization, scheduling, and communication between serving components.
Ensure functional and numerical correctness. Build validation systems for tokenization, sampling, logits, generated outputs, precision changes, model upgrades, determinism, and compatibility across serving backends.
Strengthen reliability and observability. Define end-to-end service indicators and build structured logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, health checks, and diagnostic tooling for production inference traffic.
Develop testing and qualification infrastructure. Create conformance tests, workload-replay tools, model-validation suites, performance benchmarks, integration tests, and release gates.
Improve developer experience. Build intuitive configuration, SDKs, documentation, examples, debugging tools, and self-service workflows for internal developers, customers, and partners.
Collaborate across the stack. Partner with compiler, runtime, kernel, cloud, product, and solutions teams to translate model and customer requirements into scalable serving capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial individual-contributor ownership of production software or distributed systems.
Strong programming ability in Python and experience developing performance-sensitive or highly concurrent services in C++, Go, or a similar systems language.
Hands-on experience with a model-serving framework such as vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server, Hugging Face Text Generation Inference, or an equivalent internally developed platform.
Understanding of modern LLM inference concepts, including tokenization, prompt formatting, sampling, streaming generation, continuous batching, KV-cache management, and model configuration.
Experience integrating software across service, framework, runtime, and infrastructure boundaries.
Experience building stable APIs with clear validation, error handling, observability, compatibility, and versioning practices.
Experience with Linux, containers, Kubernetes or comparable orchestration systems, CI/CD, and operating latency-sensitive services in production.
Ability to diagnose correctness, reliability, and performance issues across multiple components of a distributed serving system.
Strong communication and cross-functional execution skills, with the ability to turn ambiguous model or product requirements into production-quality software.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience designing or maintaining OpenAI-compatible, gRPC, REST, or streaming inference APIs.
Experience modifying or contributing to vLLM, SGLang, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, or another open-source ML systems project.
Experience enabling new transformer, Mixture-of-Experts, diffusion, embedding, reranking, or multimodal model architectures.
Understanding of model-specific tokenization, chat templates, generation configuration, logits processing, stopping criteria, tool calling, structured generation, and constrained decoding.
Experience with disaggregated prefill/decode architectures, KV-cache transfer, prefix caching, chunked prefill, memory-aware admission control, or request scheduling.
Experience designing, building, or operating production APIs and services for machine learning, large language models, or other data-intensive applications.

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.

Find out more about what it's like to work at Cerebras here!

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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Responsibilities

You will build and evolve the ML API layer to make heterogeneous serving systems accessible, reliable, and easy to use. This involves designing APIs for chat completions, streaming, and model configuration while ensuring consistent performance across various accelerator backends.

Requirements

Candidates must have 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python and a systems language like C++ or Go. Hands-on experience with model-serving frameworks and a solid understanding of LLM inference concepts are required.

Skills

Python
C++
Go
Distributed systems
API design
Machine learning
vLLM
PyTorch
Hugging Face
Kubernetes
Linux
LLM inference
Performance optimization
Cloud infrastructure
Software engineering

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Keywords

Software Engineering
Inference API
Machine Learning
Distributed Systems
Python
C++
Go
vLLM
PyTorch
Hugging Face
Triton Inference Server
TensorRT-LLM
LLM
API Design
Kubernetes
Linux
CI/CD
Streaming
Tokenization
Model Serving
Latency Optimization
Observability
gRPC
REST
Transformer
Mixture-of-Experts
Multimodal
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Paths
Performance Benchmarking

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