SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of SambaNova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into SambaRack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.
Join the company that's building the future of AI infrastructure. SambaNova is developing advanced AI systems powered by our RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) architecture, combining hardware and software into an integrated platform for large-scale AI deployments.
Our products include SambaRack, a rack-scale AI infrastructure system, and SambaStack, our inference serving platform. Together, they enable customers to deploy and operate production AI environments with performance, reliability, and control.
We are a team of engineers and innovators building next-generation AI infrastructure systems designed for enterprise-scale deployments.
About the roleSambaNova is hiring a Senior Principal Engineer for the SambaRack platform.
You will help design and build the software that enables customers to monitor, control, update, and diagnose SambaRack systems safely and reliably.
This is a hands-on software development role requiring significant technical expertise in systems and infrastructure, focused on building rack-scale hardware management and infrastructure software that operates in direct contact with hardware across diverse production environments, including customer-managed and air-gapped deployments.
As a Senior Principal Engineer on the SambaRack team, you will:
- Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of rack-scale infrastructure and management software
- Introduce new features and capabilities for monitoring, control, and diagnostics of SambaRack systems
- Design and build components for hardware-software integration points across rack-scale AI systems
- Drive technical execution across critical infrastructure initiatives, tightly integrated with hardware
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role at the intersection of:
- AI infrastructure
- Distributed systems
- Hardware-software integration
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Design and build core software components that enable safe, reliable control, monitoring, and diagnostics for rack-scale AI systems
- Lead the technical design and implementation of hardware-software integration points and infrastructure services
- Improve observability, telemetry, and diagnostics capabilities across the SambaRack platform
- Proactively identify and resolve systemic risks, including performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints, before they impact customers
- Collaborate closely with Hardware Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Product teams to translate infrastructure requirements into sound technical solutions
- Contribute to and help evolve architectural standards, patterns, and best practices across the infrastructure software team
- Serve as a technical leader and mentor, fostering engineering excellence and systems-level thinking within the team
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to inform technical approach and platform direction
- Design and build new systems, components, and capabilities to solve new and interesting problems in the AI inference space
- 8-12 years of software engineering experience
- Strong experience building infrastructure, systems, or platform software
- Solid programming experience in Go, Rust, Python, or C/C++
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
- Experience designing reliable backend or control-plane services for production systems
- Experience with hardware management systems such as BMCs, Redfish, IPMI, or OpenBMC
- Experience with monitoring, telemetry, or observability systems for infrastructure platforms
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams
- Knowledge of software development best practices and coding standards
- Experience with rack management, server management, or bare-metal infrastructure platforms
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and metrics exporter design
- Familiarity with fleet management, diagnostics systems, and hardware health monitoring
- Experience supporting enterprise or air-gapped deployments
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes, Helm Charts, and the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Experience designing scalable infrastructure and distributed systems
- Familiarity with telemetry systems and infrastructure observability tooling
Base Salary Range:
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.
EEO Policy
SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
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. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.
Skills Required
- 8-12 years of software engineering experience
- Strong experience building infrastructure, systems, or platform software
- Solid programming experience in Go, Rust, Python, or C/C++
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
- Experience designing reliable backend or control-plane services for production systems
- Experience with hardware management systems such as BMCs, Redfish, IPMI, or OpenBMC
- Experience with monitoring, telemetry, or observability systems for infrastructure platforms
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams
- Knowledge of software development best practices and coding standards
- Experience with rack management, server management, or bare-metal infrastructure platforms
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and metrics exporter design
- Familiarity with fleet management, diagnostics systems, and hardware health monitoring
- Experience supporting enterprise or air-gapped deployments
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes, Helm Charts, and the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Experience designing scalable infrastructure and distributed systems
- Familiarity with telemetry systems and infrastructure observability tooling
What We Do
AI is changing the world and at SambaNova, we believe that you don’t need unlimited resources to take advantage of the most advanced, valuable AI capabilities - capabilities that are helping organizations explore the universe, find cures for cancer, and giving companies access to insights that provide a competitive edge. We deliver the world’s fastest and only complete AI solution for enterprises and governments with world-record inference performance and accuracy. Powered by the SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU), organizations can build a technology backbone for the next decade of AI innovation with SambaNova Suite. Our fully integrated hardware-software system, DataScale®, enables organizations to train, fine-tune, and deploy the most demanding AI workloads using the largest and most challenging models. Most recently, with the launch of our newest offering, SambaNova Cloud, developers can supercharge AI-powered applications on Llama 3.2 models. SambaNova was founded in 2017 in Palo Alto, California, by a group of industry luminaries, business leaders, and world-class innovators who understand AI. Today, we’ve built an incredibly smart and motivated team dedicated to making a lasting impact on the industry and equipping our customers to thrive in the new era of AI.
Why Work With Us
As a talent first company, we aim to hire the greatest and most innovative minds in the industry- driving the next generation of AI computing where no barrier is too high and the possibilities are truly limitless. We encourage our peers to take risks and take the initiative to make a lasting impact on the AI and ML industries.
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