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Senior AI Performance Engineer

SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States

Senior AI Performance Engineer is open at SambaNova in San Jose, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $180K - $255K. Posted on Nov 21, 2025, and still on SambaNova’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.

About the role

We are seeking a talented and driven ML performance engineer to optimize and scale state-of-the-art foundation models on SambaNova's reconfigurable dataflow platform. You'll work hands-on with some of the most advanced models in the world — such as DeepSeek R1, GPT OSS, and other frontier architectures — to push the limits of throughput, latency, and efficiency. In this role, you'll bridge the gap between deep…

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SambaNova has 75 open roles right now, 4 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Marketing & Community and Operations. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $218K. See all its roles

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