SambaNova

Software Architect

San Jose, California, United States · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$245k-$325kDetected 14 days ago

PythonGoDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentKubernetesHelmDevOpsMachine LearningLLMsLLMOpsCommunicationMentoring

About the role

SambaNova is hiring a Software Architect for the SambaStack platform.
Our cloud-agnostic, enterprise-grade inference serving platform enables seamless deployment, management, and scaling of foundation model workloads at production scale.
As a Software Architect on the SambaStack team, you will define the technical direction of the platform, shaping how it evolves to meet the demands of the world's most demanding enterprise AI workloads.

Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the SambaStack inference platform, ensuring it meets enterprise-grade standards for scalability, reliability, and performance.
Define and drive architectural strategy across engineering teams, aligning long-term platform direction with product and business objectives.
Lead design reviews for major new capabilities and cross-cutting system changes, providing authoritative technical guidance and raising the quality bar across the SambaStack engineering organization.
Partner with ML Engineers, Product Managers, QA, and DevOps to translate complex, ambiguous requirements into sound architectural decisions.
Serve as a technical thought leader and mentor, growing the architectural thinking and design skills of Software Engineers across the team.
We help enterprises and service providers host their own AI inference platforms, powered by our state-of-the-art RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) hardware architecture.
You will own the cross-cutting architectural decisions that span teams and shape the platform's long-term trajectory.
Systems architecture and design

12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in a role with organization-wide technical influence.
Track record of mentoring more junior engineers and elevating team-wide engineering quality.

Submission Guidelines
Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at SambaNova Systems, you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified.
SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Able to clearly articulate complex architectural decisions to both engineering and non-technical audiences.
Deep familiarity with AI inference serving, orchestration, and the infrastructure challenges of LLM workloads at production scale.
Experience designing systems for custom or novel hardware accelerators (e.g., dataflow architectures, GPUs, TPUs).
Background in ML application optimization and productionization.
Familiarity with AI coding assistants and the developer tooling ecosystem.
Experience at a high-growth AI infrastructure company.
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.

Base Pay Range
$245,000 - $325,000 USD
SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and 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.
Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions

Proactively identify and resolve systemic risks, including performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints, before they impact customers.

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