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Inference Systems Performance Architect

SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States · San Jose, CA

Infrastructureonsiteprincipal$245k–$325k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Architect end-to-end inference performance from tokenization through decode and f
  • Build replayable benchmarks capturing real agentic production traffic for serving.
  • Define heterogeneous disaggregated inference with GPU prefill and RDU decode.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • 95% employee medical premium coverage, 77% for dependents
  • Health Savings Account with employer contribution
  • Dental, Vision and FSA options
  • Disability, Life and AD&D insurance
  • Headspace subscription and Gympass+ membership
  • One Medical membership and Employee Assistance Program

Ideal candidate

A veteran performance architect who thrives on ambiguous, first-of-kind systems problems and sets technical direction. You care about honest, production-faithful measurement and turning data into hardware and capacity decisions.

Requirements

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
  • 12+ years of experience in performance engineering
  • Direct experience with LLM inference serving, continuous batching and KV caching
  • Familiarity with inference simulation frameworks or agentic benchmarking
  • Public technical voice through talks, writing or community presence

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
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