Principal Engineer - SambaRack
SambaNova Systems2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build software components for safe, reliable control, monitoring, and diagnostics of rack-scale AI systems.
- Develop hardware-software integration points and infrastructure services for SambaRack.
- Build and improve observability, telemetry, and diagnostics capabilities.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints.
- Collaborate with Hardware Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Product teams on infrastructure requirements.
- Apply and refine architectural standards, patterns, and software engineering best practices.
- Partner with senior engineers and architects on technical designs and share knowledge with peers.
- Develop systems and capabilities for AI inference infrastructure.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of software engineering experience.
- Experience building infrastructure, systems, platform, backend, or control-plane software for production systems.
- Solid programming experience in Go, Rust, Python, or C/C++.
- Understanding of Linux, networking, concurrency, and distributed systems.
- Experience with hardware management systems such as BMCs, Redfish, IPMI, or OpenBMC.
- Experience with monitoring, telemetry, or observability systems for infrastructure platforms.
- Preferred experience with rack management, server management, bare-metal infrastructure, Prometheus, Grafana, metrics exporters, fleet management, diagnostics, and hardware health monitoring.
- Preferred experience supporting enterprise or air-gapped deployments and understanding Kubernetes, Helm Charts, and the Kubernetes ecosystem.
- Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, collaboration, and knowledge of software development best practices.
Benefits
- US-based full-time positions include medical, dental, vision, disability, life, AD&D, and flexible spending account options.
- The company covers 95% of employee medical insurance premiums and 77% of dependent premiums, with an employer-contributed HSA.
- Well-being benefits include Headspace, Gympass+, One Medical, counseling services, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- The posting states that the rewards package may also include equity and other benefits.
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.