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What they do

SambaNova builds a full-stack platform to run AI models. Its own chip, the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit), uses a dataflow design instead of a GPU. RDUs go into SambaRack hardware, and customers use them through SambaCloud and SambaStack. Stanford professors Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Ré helped start it in Palo Alto in 2017.

What they value

• Move fast: ideas come to life in weeks, not years.
• Put customers first, with quality products and service.
• Grow through mentorship and deep technical work.
• Collaborate, with acceptance, trust, and cooperation.

Where they hire

Of 72 Postings, 52 name San Jose and 16 name Austin, and many list both. Eight are in Bengaluru, four in Tokyo, two in London, and one in Stockholm. A data center technician works on site near Santa Clara. Five Postings are open to remote work in the US. No Posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

The board has 72 Postings, and most are technical.

• Software: 26 Postings. Compiler, runtime, kernel and driver, machine learning, AI performance, and cloud platform engineers and architects. Bengaluru has architects and principal engineers for SambaRack, SambaStack, and the cloud platform.
• Hardware: 16 Postings for chip design. RTL design, design verification, physical design, design for test, post-silicon validation, and rack systems.
• Marketing: 12 Postings, including product, partner, and field marketing, developer advocacy, and analyst relations.
• Customer success and sales: forward deployment engineers in the US, Bengaluru, and Tokyo, a customer success manager, a network solutions architect, and sales leaders in the US and London.
• Product: product managers and an AI solutions engineer.
• New graduates: eight roles, in AI performance, compilers, runtime, cloud platform, ML infrastructure, and chip design.

What they look for

Most senior Postings ask for many years, from 5+ up to 12 or 15. Python is named in 40 Postings and C++ in 17. Cloud and platform roles ask for Kubernetes, Terraform, and on-call work. Chip roles ask for SystemVerilog and UVM. Machine learning roles name PyTorch and inference tools such as vLLM and SGLang. New graduate roles ask for a B.S. in computer science or electrical engineering, and prefer an M.S. or Ph.D.