SambaNova
AI Systems Performance Engineer - New Graduate
San Jose, California, United States · Internship
Sponsorship not specified$135k-$165kDetected 9 days ago
PythonC++Node.jsDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchNLPLLMsStatisticsElectrical EngineeringResearchProblem Solving
About the role
- You'll work hands-on with advanced AI models - such as DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, GPT OSS, Llama, Qwen, and other frontier architectures - and learn how modern AI systems achieve high throughput, low latency, and efficient large-scale inference.
- In this role, you'll work at the intersection of machine learning and computer systems, collaborating with engineers across model, compiler, runtime, and hardware teams.
Responsibilities
- Optimize AI workloads for throughput, latency, memory efficiency, and scalability.
- Develop tools, benchmarks, and performance analysis methodologies for large-scale AI inference.
- This is an ideal opportunity for a new graduate who is passionate about understanding how AI models execute on real hardware and wants to help build the next generation of high-performance AI systems.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, multimodal models, or transformer architectures.
- Familiarity with model inference, KV cache, batching, quantization, or distributed execution.
- Experience with GPU or accelerator programming using CUDA, Triton, OpenCL, or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with frameworks such as vLLM, DeepSpeed, Megatron, or TensorRT.
- Understanding of memory hierarchy, caching, parallelism, or scheduling.
- Experience profiling and optimizing the performance of software or ML workloads.
- Research publications, open-source contributions, programming competitions, or technically challenging personal projects are a plus.
- We value strong technical fundamentals, curiosity, and the ability to learn quickly.
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.
Compensation
- Base Pay Range
- $135,000 - $165,000 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 cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
- 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.
- Collaborate with machine learning, compiler, runtime, and hardware engineers to develop high-performance AI applications.
- Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
Company info
- We are seeking a talented and highly motivated AI Systems Performance Engineer to bring up and optimize state-of-the-art foundation models on SambaNova's reconfigurable dataflow platform.
Equal opportunity
- SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Apply directly at SambaNova →Create a free account for alerts like thisView SambaNova immigration profile
This listing is sourced directly from SambaNova's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.