SambaNova
Forward Deployment Engineer
Remote - US · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$138k-$170kDetected 8 days ago
PythonC++Full-Stack DevelopmentAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesMachine LearningLLMsRAGMLOpsAI OrchestrationCustomer SuccessElectrical Engineering
About the role
- SambaNova is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for our SambaStack based product portfolio in our Customer Success Organization.
- EEO Policy SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
- We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement LLM-powered workflows - including RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, fine-tuning workflows, and coding solutions - tailored to each customer's data, infrastructure, and business goals.
- Optimize AI inference performance on SambaNova hardware
- Partner with Account Executives and Solutions Engineers to shape technical sales strategy, scope engagements, and demonstrate platform differentiation during evaluations and proof-of-concepts.
- Develop reusable accelerators, reference architectures, and internal playbooks that scale learnings from one deployment to many.
- Optimize AI inference performance on SambaNova hardware; benchmark model throughput, latency, and accuracy against customer requirements and competitor baselines.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with a strong record of shipping production AI/ML systems.
- Deep expertise in GenAI application development: LLM orchestration, RAG, agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy), prompt engineering, and evaluation pipelines.
- Bachelor's or graduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent practical experience.
- Comfortable engaging directly with customers: able to run technical discovery, set expectations, push back constructively, and present to executive and practitioner audiences alike.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites - flexible based on engagement needs.
- Bonus qualifications:
Nice to have
- Experience with AI accelerators or custom silicon (TPUs etc.)
- CUDA / low-level GPU programming
- Familiarity with VLLM / SGLang
- Enterprise AI deployments in regulated industries
- Strong foundations in ML fundamentals - model training, fine-tuning, inference optimization, quantization, and performance benchmarking.
- Proficiency in Python (required)
- working knowledge of C++ or CUDA a strong plus for hardware-layer debugging.
- Experience deploying AI workloads on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and familiarity with containerization, orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and MLOps tooling.
Skills
- The era of pervasive AI has arrived.
- SambaNova Suite™ is the first full-stack, generative AI platform, from chip to model, optimized for enterprise and government organizations.
- About SambaNova
- SambaNova is disrupting the AI and high-performance computing space with an integrated hardware and software platform.
- Our SambaStack inference serving platform is pushing the boundaries of inference serving for generative AI and large language models.
Compensation
- Base Pay Range
- $138,000 - $170,000 USD
- SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits.
Benefits
- SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits.
- We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care.
- Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
Company info
- Embed directly with strategic enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy production GenAI applications on SambaNova's SN40L platform and SambaStack based product portfolio
Equal opportunity
- SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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