Runtime Engineer - New Grad
About The Position
SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform to customers worldwide. Its technology is built around the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit), a chip based on a dataflow architecture, and SambaRack, rack-scale hardware for deploying AI models. The Runtime team owns the lowest layer of the SambaNova software stack, which communicates directly with hardware. It develops user libraries, drivers, networking, and system tools for ML training and inference across SambaStack and SambaCloud. As a new-grad Runtime Engineer, you will write production code in C, C++, Rust, and Python across drivers, user-space libraries, networking, and system tools. You will help bring up drivers on next-generation silicon, test and deploy runtime features on large multi-node systems, and investigate performance bottlenecks with hardware and compiler teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong programming skills in C, C++, or Rust and Python.
- Experience with high-speed networking such as RDMA, RoCE, or InfiniBand.
- Experience with distributed communication libraries such as MPI, NCCL, or UCX.
- Experience writing Linux kernel drivers or other system-level software.
- Experience with Linux and debugging tools such as GDB.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Familiarity with PCIe.
- Experience with profiling or performance analysis tools.
- Internship or research experience in systems software, networking, or performance engineering.
- Ownership of or contributions to open-source projects.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain kernel drivers for next-generation SambaNova silicon.
- Build user-space libraries that use hardware resources efficiently.
- Find and fix networking bottlenecks within and across nodes.
- Build tools for profiling, debugging, and job and hardware management.
- Test and deploy runtime features on large multi-node systems.
- Work with hardware and compiler teams to diagnose and fix performance issues.
Benefits
- Equity.
- Employee medical insurance with 95% of premiums covered.
- Dependent medical insurance with 77% of premiums covered.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Basic life, voluntary life, and AD&D insurance plans.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for health care, limited purpose, and dependent care.
- Headspace subscription.
- Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms.
- One Medical membership.
- Counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
