Principal Place and Route (PnR) Engineer

Highlights

• Map dataflow graphs onto SambaNova's RDU to set throughput for LLM inference.
• Tune partitioning, placement and routing for LLM inference at varying batch sizes.
• Ship PnR changes in production releases with directly measured performance impact.

What they offer

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

Ideal candidate

Motivated problem-solver with graduate training who loves turning NP-hard mapping challenges into practical, high-throughput solutions and collaborating with compiler and hardware teams.

Requirements

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 3+ years developing optimization or graph algorithms in industry or research
• Expert knowledge of graph, partitioning, combinatorial optimization or MILP solvers
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ with familiarity in Python
• Experience designing large, highly parallel, performance-sensitive systems
• Ability to learn hardware architecture and apply it to improve performance
• Experience solving NP-hard problems with heuristics, approximation or pruned exact methods