Principal Engineer, SambaNova Systems

Foundation LLM

$180-210k

+ Equity

Python
Tensorflow
C++
PyTorch
Semantic
Theano
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

SambaNova Systems

Platform for artificial intelligence innovation

Open for applications

SambaNova Systems

Platform for artificial intelligence innovation

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceAnalytics

Open for applications

$180-210k

+ Equity

Python
Tensorflow
C++
PyTorch
Semantic
Theano
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceAnalytics

Company mission

To accelerate the development and deployment of artificial intelligence for everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering or science fields
  • 5-10 years of hands-on engineering experience in machine learning
  • Experience with one or more deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe2, or Theano
  • A deep theoretical or empirical understanding of deep learning
  • Experience building and deploying machine learning models
  • Strong analytical and debugging skills
  • Experience with either one of Large Language Models, Multilingual Models, Semantic Search, Summarization, Data Pipelines, Domain Adaptation (finance, legal, or bio-medical), and conversational agents
  • Experience in leading small teams
  • Experience in Python and/or C++

Desirable

  • Experience working in a high-growth startup
  • A team player who demonstrates humility
  • Action-oriented with a focus on speed & results
  • Ability to thrive in a no-boundaries culture & make an impact on innovation

What the job involves

  • This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI and the value it can unlock across every aspect of an organization’s business and operations, including innovating from strategic product pathfinding to large-scale production
  • Design and implement large-scale data pipelines that feed billions of high-quality tokens into LLMs
  • Continuously improve SambaNova’s LLM by exploring new ideas, including but not limited to new modeling techniques, prompt engineering, instruction tuning, and alignment
  • Curate and crawl the necessary dataset to induce domain specificity
  • Collaborate with product management and executive teams to develop a roadmap for continuous improvement of LLM and incorporate new capabilities
  • Work closely with the product team and our customers to translate product requirements into requisite LLM capabilities
  • Expand LLM capabilities into new languages and domains
  • Develop applications on top of LLMs including but not limited to semantic search, summarization, conversational agents, etc

Our take

SambaNova Systems is a computing startup focused on building machine learning and big data analytics platforms. Its software-defined analytics platform enables optimum performance for any ML training, inference, or analytics models.

In 2021, SambaNova Systems became the best-funded AI systems and services platform startup in the world. Its total funding reached more than $1 billion and its valuation climbed to more than $5 billion. The company has received backing from the likes of BlackRock, Intel Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), among several others, and is expanding its offices in Palo Alto to accommodate this growth.

It's this support from premier investors in the industry that validates its mission to revolutionize the AI market by making it accessible to every organization.

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Insights

Top investors

-12% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Apr 2021

$650m

SERIES D

Feb 2020

$250m

SERIES C

Total funding: $1.1bn

Company benefits

  • Flexible PTO in US
  • Parental Leave
  • Benefits (medical, dental and vision)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • 401k/Pensions
  • Gym Access
  • Flexible Working Hours

Company values

  • We work with integrity
  • Innovation that makes an impact
  • We pride ourselves on top talent

Company HQ

Palo Alto, CA

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Leadership

They studied at Stanford before spending 7 years as a Hewlett-Packard Hardware Manager, and working as Director of Engineering at inSilicon and Afara Websystems. Having spent a combined 15 years as VP of Sun Microsystems and then Oracle Corporation, they co-founded SambaNova in November 2017.

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