SambaNova Systems
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Director,SoftwareEngineering
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“Director, Software Engineering at SambaNova Systems. Skills: AI infrastructure, Enterprise software, Systems architecture, People leadership. Lead software team. Grow software team”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12+ years software engineering, 2+ years managing engineering teams, Manage, develop, hire engineers, Hands-on technical contributor, Backend systems with Python, Go, or Rust, Kubernetes, Distributed systems principles, Build scalable, reliable services, Drive engineering excellence, Excellent communication skills, Work effectively with engineers, Work with cross-functional partners, Work with senior leadership, Iterative engineering processes, Fast-paced environment
Nice to Have
AI inference serving familiarity, Orchestration familiarity, LLM infrastructure challenges familiarity, Kubernetes ecosystem tooling familiarity, Operators, Helm Charts, ML application optimization, ML productionization, Build cloud-native platforms, Manage cloud-native platforms, Enterprise customers, AI coding assistants familiarity, Developer tooling ecosystem familiarity, High-growth AI infrastructure company experience
What You'll Do.
Inspire software team
Foster technical excellence
Foster continuous improvement
Build diverse engineering organization
Build high-performing engineering organization
Drive career development
Provide meaningful feedback
Set clear growth plans
Set clear expectations
Keep team executing effectively
Partner with Product leadership
Partner with ML leadership
Partner with QA leadership
Partner with DevOps leadership
Align team priorities
Champion healthy engineering culture
Champion inclusive engineering culture
Contribute as software engineer
Participate in design reviews
Provide authoritative technical guidance
Establish engineering standards
Uphold engineering standards
Establish best practices
Uphold best practices
Establish coding quality
Uphold coding quality
Identify systemic risks
Drive resolution of systemic risks
Identify performance bottlenecks
Drive resolution of performance bottlenecks
Identify reliability gaps
Drive resolution of reliability gaps
Identify scaling constraints
Drive resolution of scaling constraints
Grow architectural thinking
Stay current on emerging technologies
Stay current on AI inference trends
Inform team's technical direction
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional partners; Senior leadership
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills
Process & Methodology
Iterative engineering processes
Full Job Description
The era of pervasive AI has arrived. In this era, organizations will use generative AI to unlock hidden value in their data, accelerate processes, reduce costs, drive efficiency and innovation to fundamentally transform their businesses and operations at scale. SambaNova Suite™ is the first full-stack, generative AI platform, from chip to model, optimized for enterprise and government organizations. Powered by the intelligent SN40L chip, the SambaNova Suite is a fully integrated platform, delivered on-premises or in the cloud, combined with state-of-the-art open-source models that can be easily and securely fine-tuned using customer data for greater accuracy. Once adapted with customer data, customers retain model ownership in perpetuity, so they can turn generative AI into one of their most valuable assets. About SambaNova Join the company that's building the future of AI computing. SambaNova is disrupting the AI and high-performance computing space with an integrated hardware and software platform. Our SambaStack inference serving platform is pushing the boundaries of inference serving for generative AI and large language models. We are a team of passionate innovators tackling some of the world's most challenging computational problems. About the Role SambaNova is hiring a Software Engineering Manager for the SambaStack platform. We help enterprises and service providers host their own AI inference platforms, powered by our state-of-the-art RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) hardware architecture. Our cloud-agnostic, enterprise-grade inference serving platform enables seamless deployment, management, and scaling of foundation model workloads at production scale. As an Engineering Manager on the SambaStack team, you will lead a high-performing team of engineers while remaining a hands-on technical contributor. You will be responsible for the growth and effectiveness of your team, the technical quality of their output, and driving key engineering initiatives while c
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