Principal Engineer - SambaRack
SambaNova SystemsResponsibilities
- 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
Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI Capacity At SambaNova, we're empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing. Our Mission To give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow. Our Technology We give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise. Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier. SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the world's largest organizations. SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days. At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.