Senior AI Performance Engineer

SambaNova · San Jose

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Company
SambaNova
Location
San Jose
Salary
$180,000 — $255,000
Posted
November 21, 2025

About this job

About the role We are seeking a talented and driven ML performance engineer to optimize and scale state-of-the-art foundation models on SambaNova's reconfigurable dataflow platform. You'll work hands-on with some of the most advanced models in the world — such as DeepSeek R1, GPT OSS, and other frontier architectures — to push the limits of throughput, latency, and efficiency. In this role, you'll bridge the gap between deep learning and systems performance, collaborating across compiler, runtime, and hardware layers to deliver world-record performance for large-scale AI inference. Responsibilities Bring up and optimize cutting-edge foundation models (e.g., DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, and others) on the SambaNova platform through the SambaNova software stack.…

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