Principal AI Solutions Engineer, SambaNova Systems
Offers equity
Platform for artificial intelligence innovation
Open for applications
Platform for artificial intelligence innovation
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Offers equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the development and deployment of artificial intelligence for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or Statistics
- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering or ML engineering
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with deep learning and machine learning systems
- Proficiency in Python or C++ programming
- Experience with modern ML frameworks:
- PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
- Real-world experience deploying LLM-based applications
- Strong client communication and presentation skills
- Experience with benchmarking methodologies and performance optimization
Desirable
- Experience with multi-modal AI systems (vision, audio, text)
- Hands-on experience with distributed training/inference frameworks:
- VLLM, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM
- Experience building agentic AI systems (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, etc.)
- Knowledge of enterprise AI deployment patterns
- Experience with technical partnerships and customer-facing roles
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Principal AI Solutions Engineer to join our Product and Solution Engineering team, driving product adoption through advanced AI solutions development, agentic AI implementation, and performance benchmarking. This role combines deep technical expertise with customer-facing responsibilities, supporting our Customer Driven Product Program (CDPP) and Product QA initiatives
- This senior technical role provides customer-facing architecture leadership essential for scaling SambaNova's enterprise adoption:
- Customer Reference Architectures: Design and document production-ready patterns for enterprise AI deployments
- SambaStack Tooling: Develop tooling and automation for SambaStack deployment and management
- Agentic AI Solutions: Build customer-facing agentic solutions that accelerate time-to-value
- US Timezone Coverage: Enable global coordination with customers and partners across time zones
- Impact: Senior technical leadership for customer-facing architecture work. Drives adoption through reference implementations and best practices documentation
- AI Solutions Development: Develop robust, efficient, and scalable AI solutions for enterprise customers
- Agentic AI Implementation: Lead the design and implementation of agentic AI systems and multi-agent architectures
- Performance Benchmarking: Conduct comprehensive performance benchmarking and optimization of AI models and systems
- Customer Engagement: Lead technical enablement for CDPP customers through workshops and hands-on implementation sessions
- Model Integration: Integrate latest model architectures into SambaNova's platform stack
- End-to-End Solutions: Create complete ML application solutions from concept to production deployment
- Inference Optimization: Enable high-throughput, low-latency inference deployments for customer workloads
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to drive platform improvements
- Technical Thought Leadership: Contribute to reference architectures, best practices, and technical documentation
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 revolutionise the AI market by making it accessible to every organisation.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2026
$350m
SERIES E
Apr 2021
$650m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO in US
- Parental Leave
- Benefits (medical, dental and vision)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401k/Pensions
- Gym Access
- Flexible Working Hours
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Rodrigo Liang
(Co-Founder & CEO)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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