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Machine Learning Engineer - New Grad

SambaNova is hiring for Machine Learning Engineer - New Grad in Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, United States. Junior level, $131k–$197k a year stated. First seen November 4, 2026; open as of November 12, 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
Junior
Pay stated
$131k–$197k a year
First seen
November 4, 2026
Listed via
Greenhouse

What the posting says

Responsibilities Train, evaluate, and tune speculative decoding models (Dspark/Dflash, Medusa/Eagle-style heads, and multi-token prediction) to increase acceptance rates on production workloads. Develop and implement optimization techniques, including quantization, sparsity, distillation, pruning, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning, to quantify the trade-offs between model quality, latency, and resource efficiency. Build and evaluate agentic systems: tool calling, multi-step planning, retrieval, and long-context reasoning on top of our serving stack. Design rigorous evaluations and…

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