Inference Systems Performance Architect
SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States · San Jose, CA
Infrastructureonsiteprincipal$245k–$325k
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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