Senior Director of Engineering, SambaNova Systems

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading and managing engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to manage, develop, and hire strong engineers while remaining a hands-on technical contributor
• Strong technical depth in backend systems built with Python, Go, or Rust
• Experience with AI inference serving, orchestration, and the infrastructure challenges of LLM workloads at production scale
• Proven ability to drive engineering excellence across an engineering team
• Excellent communication skills: able to work effectively with engineers, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership
• Experience running iterative engineering processes in a fast-paced environment

Desirable

• The SambaStack team builds the inference serving platform enterprises and service providers use to host foundation models on RDU hardware. The platform is cloud-agnostic, and the team owns deployment, orchestration, scaling, and reliability for production inference workloads
• The SambaStack team is seeking an Engineering Director to lead a software engineering team while remaining a hands-on technical contributor
• You'll own the growth and effectiveness of your team, the technical quality of their output, and the roadmap for the inference serving platform. You'll continue to design systems and write code on the platform's hardest problems
• People & Team Leadership:
• Lead, grow, and inspire a software team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Own hiring for your team: define roles, assess candidates, and build a diverse, high-performing engineering organization
• Drive the career development of your engineers through regular 1:1s, meaningful feedback, and clear growth plans
• Set clear goals and expectations, track team progress, and remove blockers to keep the team executing effectively
• Partner with Product, ML, QA, and DevOps leadership to align team priorities with broader organizational objectives
• Technical Contribution:
• Contribute directly as a software engineer: designing systems, writing code, and leading implementation on critical platform initiatives
• Participate in and lead design reviews, providing authoritative technical guidance on major features and cross-cutting changes
• Establish and uphold engineering standards, best practices, and coding quality across the team
• Proactively identify and drive the resolution of systemic risks: performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints
• Stay current on emerging technologies and AI inference trends to inform the team's technical direction