Runtime Engineer - New Grad
SambaNova Systems2 days ago
Base Salary
$131k - $196k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain kernel drivers for next-generation SambaNova silicon.
- Build user-space libraries that efficiently use hardware resources.
- Identify and resolve networking bottlenecks within and across nodes.
- Build profiling, debugging, job-management, and hardware-management tools.
- Test and deploy runtime features on large multi-node systems.
- Collaborate with hardware and compiler teams to diagnose and resolve performance issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong programming skills in C, C++, Rust, and Python.
- Experience with high-speed networking such as RDMA, RoCE, or InfiniBand.
- Experience with distributed communication libraries such as MPI, NCCL, or UCX.
- Experience writing Linux kernel drivers or other system-level software.
- Experience with Linux and debugging tools such as GDB.
- Preferred: M.S. or Ph.D. in a relevant field, PCIe familiarity, profiling or performance-analysis experience, systems/networking/performance-engineering internship or research experience, and open-source project ownership or contributions.
Benefits
- US-based full-time employees receive base salary plus equity and benefits.
- SambaNova covers 95% of employee medical insurance premiums and 77% of dependent premiums, with an employer-contributed HSA.
- Benefits include dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, life, AD&D, and flexible spending account plans.
- Well-being benefits include Headspace, Gympass+ access to physical gyms, One Medical, counseling services, and an Employee Assistance Program.
About SambaNova Systems
SambaNova Systems builds full-stack AI infrastructure—custom accelerator chips, systems, and foundation models—delivered as on-prem appliances and cloud APIs for enterprises, governments, and data centers. Its offerings include the SambaNova Suite, Samba Cloud, and on-prem SambaStack, powered by its Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) architecture, including the SN40L chip. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company is privately held.