Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer
SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States · San Jose, CA
CHECKED 12H AGO
Infrastructureonsiteprincipal$234k–$286k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turn customer problems into polished, working apps in days.
- Set technical direction for the solutions portfolio.
- Serve as trusted advisor to customer CTOs and AI leaders.
What they offer
- Equity
- 95% employee medical premium coverage, 77% for dependents
- HSA with employer contribution, Dental, Vision coverage
- Disability, Life and AD&D insurance plus FSA options
- Headspace, Gympass+, One Medical and EAP well-being benefits
Ideal candidate
Hands-on technical leader who turns ambiguous customer problems into polished, production-ready applications. You love setting technical direction, raising the bar through mentorship, and guiding executives on scaling AI.
Requirements
- Experience in one or more knowledge-work verticals (financial services, legal, healthcare, public sector, scientific research)
- Familiarity with inference frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM) and hardware-aware performance tuning
- Experience with MCP, RAG at enterprise scale, and agent security and guardrails
- Open-source contributions, public demos or technical content in the AI community
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