Senior Principal Runtime Engineer
SambaNova Systems2 months ago
Stockholm, SwedenStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and implement runtime-stack features for high-performance, scalable ML inference and training applications.
- Develop system software, drivers, and kernel support for next-generation silicon.
- Design user-space libraries that maximize hardware performance and utilization.
- Build user-facing tools for analysis, job and hardware management, profiling, and debugging.
- Collaborate with Hardware, ML Application, Compiler, and DevOps teams.
- Build, test, deploy, and performance-tune distributed high-performance compute systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent, plus 3–5 years of industry experience.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and Python.
- Experience with user-space libraries, operating systems, and kernel drivers.
- Experience with highly concurrent and distributed systems focused on performance and scalability.
- Preferred: experience with PCIe, InfiniBand, RoCE, and RDMA.
- Preferred: strong communication skills and enthusiasm for helping colleagues.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including base salary, equity, and benefits.
- SambaNova covers 95% of employee medical insurance premiums and 77% of dependent premiums, with an employer-contributed Health Savings Account.
- Dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, basic and voluntary life, AD&D, and Flexible Spending Account options are available.
- Well-being benefits include Headspace, Gympass+ access to physical gyms, One Medical, counseling, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- The benefits described apply to US-based, full-time employment positions.
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.