Senior Principal Runtime Engineer
SambaNova Systems · San Jose, California, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days SambaNova Systems's roles stay open a median of 69 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of SambaNova Systems's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at SambaNova Systems
- high 57 stale, 2 reposted of 57 open
- Hiring momentum
- 68 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
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About this role
The Senior Principal Runtime Engineer at SambaNova will work on developing a high-performance, distributed software execution environment for AI and ML applications. Responsibilities include building and enhancing features for ML inference and training, optimizing networking for distributed systems, and collaborating across teams to improve hardware and software integration. The role requires significant experience in software engineering, particularly in distributed systems and hardware interaction.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, often with emphasis on distributed systems, networking, or cloud infrastructure
- Proven experience building, testing, and tuning software for distributed, high-performance systems
- In-depth knowledge of user libraries, and runtime stacks
- Solid understanding of Switching and Routing and ability to configure and debug switches and routers for maximum application performance
- Significant experience with RDMA and RoCE networking stacks, such as RDMA based verbs and congestion management
Nice to have
- Experience designing or working closely with custom hardware accelerators (ASICs, FPGAs, etc.) and understanding low-level interactions
- Knowledge of SDN, DPDK, SONiC, or modern networking frameworks and background with distributed communication libraries (e.g., UCX, MPI, NCCL)
- Familiarity with deploying high-performance systems in distributed, cloud, or data center environment
What you get
- Competitive total rewards package, including base salary and equity
- 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
- 77% premium coverage for dependents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Focus on high-performance distributed systems may require deep technical expertise and experience
- Role involves cross-functional collaboration, which may require strong interpersonal skills
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Listed by SambaNova Systems on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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