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