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Senior Principal Model Bring-up Engineer

SambaNova is hiring for Senior Principal Model Bring-up Engineer in Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, United States. Staff level, $208k–$312k a year stated. First seen October 30, 2026; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
SambaNova
Where
Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, United States
Level
Staff
Pay stated
$208k–$312k a year
First seen
October 30, 2026
Listed via
Greenhouse

What the posting says

Responsibilities Bring up new LLM architectures end to end: model adaptation, checkpoint conversion, multi-chip / multi-host mapping, compile, strict numerical validation, production serving with latency / throughput numbers. Build inference features once as shared modules: continuous batching over a paged KV pool, prompt caching, chunked and incremental prefill, dynamic tensor shapes, speculative decoding (EAGLE-3, drafters, MTP), FP8 / FP4, tensor and expert parallelism. Debug where model, compiler and hardware meet; land each fix in the right shared component. Required qualifications B.S.…

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