Forward Deployment Engineer
SambaNova · Tokyo Prefecture, Japan · Tokyo, Japan
CHECKED 12H AGO
Infrastructureonsitesenior$66k–$82k
At a glance
Highlights
- Embed with strategic enterprise customers to deploy production GenAI applications.
- Optimize AI inference performance and benchmark throughput, latency and accuracy.
- Translate field learnings into product feedback and reusable deployment accelerators.
What they offer
- Equity
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account with employer contribution
- Well-being benefits including Headspace and Gympass+
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed engineer with 5+ years shipping production AI systems who thrives in the field, bridging customers and product teams to deliver real business impact with cutting-edge inference hardware.
Requirements
- 5+ years hands-on engineering experience shipping production AI/ML systems
- Deep expertise in GenAI application development including RAG, agents and evaluation
- Strong ML fundamentals in training, fine-tuning and inference optimization
- Proficiency in Python with working knowledge of C++ or CUDA a plus
- Experience deploying AI workloads on AWS, Azure or GCP with Docker and Kubernetes
- Customer-facing skills to lead discovery and present to executives
- Bachelor's or graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or Physics
- Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites
Lab profile
About SambaNova
Full-stack AI infrastructure with RDU dataflow chips for fast agentic inference.
What they build
- RDU Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- SambaRack rack-scale hardware
- Full-stack AI inference platform
Known for
- Reconfigurable dataflow architecture alternative to GPUs
- High decode performance for agentic workloads
- Full-stack hardware-software co-design
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in Palo Alto, California