Senior Principal Model Bring-up Engineer is open at SambaNova in Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $208K - $312K. Posted on Oct 29, 2026, and still on SambaNova’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
You will bring new open-weight LLMs, including dense, mixture-of-experts, and hybrid Mamba/attention architectures, up on SambaNova’s RDU dataflow accelerators and into production serving. That means adapting the model, mapping it across chips and hosts, compiling it, and validating it numerically against the reference. You also build inference features like continuous batching, speculative decoding, and FP8/FP4 as…
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