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Senior Principal Runtime Engineer

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

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build high-performance distributed runtime for AI training and inference at scale.
  • Power next-gen RDU-based systems for agentic and long-running AI workloads.
  • Collaborate across hardware, compiler and ML teams on full-stack AI platform.

What they offer

  • Equity as part of total rewards package
  • 95% employee medical premium coverage, 77% for dependents
  • HSA with employer contribution plus dental and vision coverage
  • Disability, life and AD&D insurance plus FSA options
  • Headspace, Gympass+, One Medical and EAP well-being benefits

Ideal candidate

A systems-minded engineer with 5+ years building distributed high-performance software who thrives at the hardware-software boundary and cares about performance, reliability and scaling AI workloads.

Requirements

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems, networking or cloud infrastructure
  • Proven experience building, testing and tuning software for distributed, high-performance systems
  • In-depth knowledge of user libraries and runtime stacks
  • Solid understanding of switching and routing and switch/router configuration and debugging
  • Significant experience with RDMA and RoCE networking stacks and congestion management
  • Hands-on experience with kernel drivers and system-level software interfacing with hardware
  • Expertise designing systems for massive parallel ML training and inference workloads
  • Deep understanding of hardware-software interaction and accelerator design
  • Familiarity with distributed systems architecture and scaling compute resources

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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