Senior Principal Hardware Emulation Engineer

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.

The emulation team builds the pre-silicon model of SambaNova's RDU that the software, architecture, and verification teams depend on.

SambaNova is looking for a Senior Principal Engineer to build and own the hardware emulation models for our next-generation Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit — the silicon behind our AI workload acceleration systems.

Emulation is a development platform here, not a checkbox. Our software teams bring up drivers, runtime, and compiler against the emulation model months before silicon. Our architects measure performance on it. Our verification team runs on it to get through scenarios that simulation cannot reach in useful time. When the model is fast, accurate, and available, three organizations move faster; when it is not, they wait.

Building that model is the core of the job. You will work shoulder to shoulder with the RTL design team to keep the design emulation-compliant, decide where a vendor model will do and where you need to write a custom one, and own the automation that keeps the platform running tests continuously rather than by hand. This is a senior individual-contributor role, and much of its leverage comes through other teams: you will be the person design, verification, and software engineers consult on what emulation can and should do, and the one who holds our emulator vendors to account.

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