Director, Compliance
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Cerebras Systems
Sunnyvale, CA, US
Summary
As Director of Compliance, you will oversee the international trade compliance program and manage complex contract compliance initiatives. The role requires extensive experience in regulatory frameworks and the technology sector.
Job Description
Director, Compliance
Sunnyvale, CA
Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our 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.
About The Role
As Director, Compliance at Cerebras, you will have a broad and critical mandate that includes structuring and administering our international trade compliance program, as well as complex contract compliance programs (including government programs) and assisting with privacy, ethics, anti-corruption and other regulatory compliance. You will partner closely with all departments to ensure that the company’s products and operations comply with U.S. and international laws, public company regulatory obligations, and contractual commitments.
This role will afford you the opportunity to work on high visibility and cutting edge legal and compliance issues at the intersection of AI and advanced compute. The ideal candidate has deep experience in export-controlled technology environments, government-regulated industries, and fast-scaling global organizations.
This role will report directly to the General Counsel.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain a global compliance program aligned with U.S. and global export control regimes, including EAR and OFAC.
- Support ECCN classification and technical export analyses for advanced semiconductor and AI hardware products.
- Monitor and educate on regulatory developments at the intersection of AI and advanced compute.
- Design, implement and maintain compliance programs for complex commercial agreements, including government contracts and programs.
- Assist with other critical compliance matters, including privacy, supply chain, environmental, code of conduct and ethics, and anti-corruption.
- Build a scalable compliance training program for global employees.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on compliance risk and strategy.
Skills And Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in legal, compliance or regulatory roles.
- Experience in semiconductors, advanced compute, cloud infrastructure, aerospace/defense, or other export-controlled industries strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with export and sanctions programs, as well as some experience and interest in federal programs.
- Hands-on experience with building and scaling enterprise compliance and training programs in high-growth environments.
- Ability to communicate plainly and translate complex regulatory requirements into operational controls.
- Can-do attitude and strong work ethic; no task is beneath you and no problem is unsolvable. Ability to operate unsupervised with attention to detail.
Fully remote candidates will be considered.
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.
