Principal Engineer - SambaRack

The era of pervasive AI has arrived. In this era, organizations will use generative AI to unlock hidden value in their data, accelerate processes, reduce costs, drive efficiency and innovation to fundamentally transform their businesses and operations at scale.

SambaNova Suite™ is the first full-stack, generative AI platform, from chip to model, optimized for enterprise and government organizations. Powered by the intelligent SN40L chip, the SambaNova Suite is a fully integrated platform, delivered on-premises or in the cloud, combined with state-of-the-art open-source models that can be easily and securely fine-tuned using customer data for greater accuracy. Once adapted with customer data, customers retain model ownership in perpetuity, so they can turn generative AI into one of their most valuable assets.

Join the company that's building the future of AI infrastructure. SambaNova is developing advanced AI systems powered by our RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) architecture, combining hardware and software into an integrated platform for large-scale AI deployments.

Our products include SambaRack, a rack-scale AI infrastructure system, and SambaStack, our inference serving platform. Together, they enable customers to deploy and operate production AI environments with performance, reliability, and control.

We are a team of engineers and innovators building next-generation AI infrastructure systems designed for enterprise-scale deployments.

SambaNova is hiring a Principal Engineer for the SambaRack platform.

You will help build the software that enables customers to monitor, control, update, and diagnose SambaRack systems safely and reliably.

This is a hands-on software development role requiring solid technical expertise in systems and infrastructure, focused on building rack-scale hardware management and infrastructure software that operates in direct contact with hardware across diverse production environments, including customer-managed and air-gapped deployments.

As a Principal Engineer on the SambaRack team, you will:

• Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of components within rack-scale infrastructure and management software

• Build new features and capabilities for monitoring, control, and diagnostics of SambaRack systems

• Design and build components for hardware-software integration points across rack-scale AI systems

• Support technical execution of infrastructure initiatives, tightly integrated with hardware

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of:

• AI infrastructure

• Distributed systems

• Hardware-software integration

• Design and build software components that enable safe, reliable control, monitoring, and diagnostics for rack-scale AI systems

• Contribute to the technical design and implementation of hardware-software integration points and infrastructure services

• Build and improve observability, telemetry, and diagnostics capabilities for the SambaRack platform

• Identify and help resolve performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and scaling constraints within owned components

• Collaborate with Hardware Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Product teams to implement infrastructure requirements as sound technical solutions

• Apply and help refine architectural standards, patterns, and best practices within the infrastructure software team

• Partner with senior engineers and architects on technical designs, and share knowledge with