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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 27 days SambaNova Systems's roles stay open a median of 33 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of SambaNova Systems's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at SambaNova Systems
- high 21 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
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
As a Software Architect on the SambaStack team, you will define the technical direction of the SambaNova Suite inference platform, ensuring it meets enterprise-grade standards for scalability and performance. Your role involves leading architectural strategy, conducting design reviews, mentoring engineers, and evaluating emerging technologies to enhance the platform's capabilities in AI inference.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in a role with organization-wide technical influence
- Proven track record of owning large-scale distributed systems architectures end-to-end from design to production
- Expertise building backend systems in Python, Go, or Rust
- Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes, including Operators, Helm Charts, and cluster-scale resource management
- Strong command of distributed systems principles: consistency, fault tolerance, observability, and performance at scale
- Demonstrated experience setting technical direction across multiple teams and driving cross-functional alignment
Nice to have
- Deep familiarity with AI inference serving, orchestration, and the infrastructure challenges of LLM workloads at production scale
- Experience designing systems for custom or novel hardware accelerators (e.g., dataflow architectures, GPUs, TPUs)
- Background in ML application optimization and productionization
- Experience building cloud-native platforms for enterprise customers with stringent SLA and compliance requirements
- Familiarity with AI coding assistants and the developer tooling ecosystem
Worth weighing
- No specific benefits listed for this position, only general US-based benefits mentioned
- Base salary range provided, but no additional compensation details or bonuses mentioned
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Listed by SambaNova Systems on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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