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.

Working at SambaNova

This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI and the value it can unlock across every aspect of an organization’s business and operations, including innovating from strategic product pathfinding to large-scale production. We are excited to have talents on board, pushing towards democratizing the modern NLP capability in real-world use cases.

What you’ll be doing

Work alongside the team that are designing and implementing large-scale data pipelines that feed billions of high-quality tokens into LLMs.
Continuously help improve SambaNova’s LLM by exploring new ideas, including but not limited to new modeling techniques, prompt engineering, instruction tuning, and alignment.
Curate and crawl the necessary dataset to induce domain specificity.
Collaborate with product management and executive teams to develop a roadmap for continuous improvement of LLM and incorporate new capabilities.
Work closely with the product team and our customers to translate product requirements into requisite LLM capabilities.
help expand LLM capabilities into new languages and domains.
Develop applications on top of LLMs including but not limited to semantic search, summarization, conversational agents, etc.

We would love for you to have:

7+ years of hands-on engineering experience in machine learning would be preferable
Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering, any of the Sciences or equivalent
Experience in Python and/or C++
Experience with one or more deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe2, or Theano
Experience working in a high-growth startup

In addition to this, if you have any of the following experience, it would be welcomed:

A thorough theoretical or empirical understanding of deep learning
Experience building and deploying machine learning models
Strong analytical and debugging skills
Experience with either one of Large Language Models, Multilingual Models, Semantic Search, Summarization, Data Pipelines, Domain Adaptation (finance, legal, or bio-medical), and conversational agents.

At SambaNova we pride ourselves on all working together with one common goal so qualities we look for when hiring are:

A team player who demonstrates humility
Action-oriented with a focus on speed & results
Ability to thrive in a no-boundaries culture & make an impact on innovation

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Benefits Summary for US-Based Full-Time Direct Employment Positions

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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.

Submission Guidelines

Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at SambaNova Systems, you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified.

If you are a new, recent (within the last two years), or upcoming college graduate and are interested in opportunities with SambaNova Systems, please apply through our university job listings.

EEO Policy

SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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