Principal Software Engineer, SambaNova Systems

Machine Learning Infrastructure

$180-210k

+ Equity

Python
C++
C
Mid and Senior 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
C++
C
Mid and Senior 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

  • Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Intelligence, Engineering Science, or Math
  • 3+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or similar role
  • Experience with algorithms, data structures, and software development in Python and C/C++
  • Knowledge of math, probability, statistics and algorithms

Desirable

  • Familiarity with and passion for any of the following -- machine learning, compilers, parallel programming, high-performance and massively parallel systems, processor and computer architecture
  • Fleshed out GitHub repo a plus

What the job involves

  • You will play a key role in crafting highly capable generative AI models and solutions, designed to meet the diverse needs of sectors ranging from enterprise to government
  • We focus on delivering solutions that excel in accuracy, efficiency, safety, accessibility, and robustness for practical applications
  • As a senior member of our team, you will not only contribute to the evolution of generative AI capabilities but also significantly shape the future of Enterprise AI
  • Build libraries that enable developers to build, run and maintain models on SN Hardware via adapting existing open source frameworks or building on top of them
  • Deliver cutting edge LLM, Speech and multimodal technologies to production while partnering with multiple stakeholders across product, compiler, platform and ML Research teams
  • Build and maintain well understood training and inference LLM methods for productization
  • Build and maintain application code used to run evaluations on various benchmarks
  • Improve developer productivity by driving process improvements via automation or other techniques
  • Build and maintain data processing utilities for LLM training

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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