SambaNova Systems

Technology

Director,SoftwareEngineering

$245–325k San Jose, California, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Director, Software Engineering at SambaNova Systems. Skills: AI infrastructure, Enterprise software, Systems architecture, People leadership. Lead software team. Grow software team”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

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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