Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer, SambaNova Systems
$200-275k
Platform for artificial intelligence innovation
Open for applications
Platform for artificial intelligence innovation
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-275k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the development and deployment of artificial intelligence for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, ideally in ML serving
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and systems design
- Experience designing and maintaining production services with strict latency, throughput, and availability requirements
- Working knowledge of modern LLM inference techniques and familiarity with open-source serving stacks such as vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or SGLang
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience collaborating across teams to deliver complex, system-level engineering solutions
What the job involves
- The ML Infrastructure team builds and operates the inference stack that serves SambaNova's models on RDU accelerators, from request scheduling and caching through the public APIs in SambaStack and SambaCloud
- We take inference techniques like speculative decoding, constrained decoding, and long-context serving from prototype to production, and own the accuracy infrastructure that gates every feature we ship
- We work alongside the ML, compiler, runtime, and product teams, since most of what we build touches all four
- The Senior Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure will be responsible for designing, building, and operating the production-grade inference infrastructure that powers SambaNova's serving stack on our Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) architecture
- SambaNova is an inference-first company, and this role sits at the heart of that mission: turning state-of-the-art inference techniques into reliable, high-throughput, low-latency services exposed to customers through SambaStack and SambaCloud
- The engineer will own end-to-end systems spanning request scheduling, advanced decoding algorithms, caching layers, API surfaces, and the accuracy infrastructure that keeps the stack trustworthy
- This role partners closely with ML, compiler, runtime, and product teams to ship inference features from prototype to production
- Design and productionize advanced inference techniques on RDU to optimize for performance and cost. Key areas include speculative decoding, constrained decoding, function/tool calling, prompt caching, and long-context inference
- Own SambaNova's integration with vLLM and adjacent serving frameworks, adapting them to RDU's architecture
- Own the public inference API surface exposed through SambaStack and SambaCloud
- Build and maintain the accuracy verification and regression infrastructure that gates every inference feature shipped to customers
- Partner with ML, compiler, runtime, and product teams to take inference features from prototype to production
- Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions as a senior individual contributor
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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Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2026
$1bn
SERIES F
Feb 2026
$350m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.5bn
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
Trimble Business Area, San Jose, 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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