Principal AI Solutions Engineer

SambaNova Systems • Austin, TX

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About The Position

We are seeking a Principal AI Solutions Engineer to join our Product and Solution Engineering team, driving product adoption through advanced AI solutions development, agentic AI implementation, and performance benchmarking. This role combines deep technical expertise with customer-facing responsibilities, supporting our Customer Driven Product Program (CDPP) and Product QA initiatives.
This senior technical role provides customer-facing architecture leadership essential for scaling SambaNova's enterprise adoption:
Customer Reference Architectures: Design and document production-ready patterns for enterprise AI deployments
SambaStack Tooling: Develop tooling and automation for SambaStack deployment and management
Agentic AI Solutions: Build customer-facing agentic solutions that accelerate time-to-value
US Timezone Coverage: Enable global coordination with customers and partners across time zones
Impact: Senior technical leadership for customer-facing architecture work. Drives adoption through reference implementations and best practices documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or Statistics
• 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering or ML engineering
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with deep learning and machine learning systems
• Proficiency in Python or C++ programming
• Experience with modern ML frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
• Real-world experience deploying LLM-based applications
• Strong client communication and presentation skills
• Experience with benchmarking methodologies and performance optimization

Nice To Haves

• Experience with multi-modal AI systems (vision, audio, text)
• Hands-on experience with distributed training/inference frameworks: vLLM, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM
• Experience building agentic AI systems (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, etc.)
• Knowledge of enterprise AI deployment patterns
• Experience with technical partnerships and customer-facing roles

Responsibilities

• AI Solutions Development: Develop robust, efficient, and scalable AI solutions for enterprise customers
• Agentic AI Implementation: Lead the design and implementation of agentic AI systems and multi-agent architectures
• Performance Benchmarking: Conduct comprehensive performance benchmarking and optimization of AI models and systems
• Customer Engagement: Lead technical enablement for CDPP customers through workshops and hands-on implementation sessions
• Model Integration: Integrate latest model architectures into SambaNova's platform stack
• End-to-End Solutions: Create complete ML application solutions from concept to production deployment
• Inference Optimization: Enable high-throughput, low-latency inference deployments for customer workloads
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to drive platform improvements
• Technical Thought Leadership: Contribute to reference architectures, best practices, and technical documentation

Benefits

• SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits.
• We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care.
• Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level