ASIC Network Architect
About this role
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.
About the role
SambaNova Systems is looking for a talented and motivated ASIC Network Architect to help us solve the most challenging and impactful problems in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Responsibilities
As a ASIC Network Architect at SambaNova, you'll be responsible for defining the next generation of silicon networking solutions to enable state-of-the-art scale-up competitiveness for supercomputer scale AI/ML systems including:
- Conduct research and development in state of the art networking solutions
- Define and own networking architecture specifications of performant, robust and efficient communications for the next generation super-pod scale ML hardware
- Define and own the ML networking roadmap, leading a cross functional effort between software, systems, and silicon
- Collaborate with executive leadership to align network initiatives with product competitiveness requirements
- Stay on top of and contribute to industry standards representing SambaNova
Required Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- 10+ years of industry experience in ML silicon development in GPU, ML accelerator or networking ASIC
- Proven track record of successful full-cycle development and delivery from planning to product in networking for such silicon solutions
Knowledge & Skills
- Track record of ownership and definition of various networking and routing protocols
- Deep understanding and hands-on experience defining various networking topologies for large machine clusters.
- Deep understanding of congestion management, QoS, security isolation
- Deep understanding of networking reliability, availability and serviceability
- Capable of abstracting and analyzing network performance from real world application data
- Capable of breaking down networking requirements into silicon, packaging, system SW, RunTime and Compiler SW requirements
- Strong hands-on analytical and debug skills to make progress on challenging problems in an ambiguous and highly dynamic environment
- Strong coding skills with C++, Python, or Rust
Leadership & teamwork
- Highly motivated, self-driven, independent, organized and strong collaboration and communication skills
- Cross-functional team leadership experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years of industry experience in ML / supercomputer / public cloud / networking industries
- Good understanding of ASIC development cycles
- Knowledge of machine learning architecture and/or computer architecture
- Experience in building or proficiently using network simulators
- Experience in leading silicon, packaging, system HW, system SW cross-functional teams
- Experience in conducting perf and perf/tco trade-off analysis on different interconnect choices
- Familiarity with off the shelf optical IP and optical switches
- Understanding / hands-on experience in end to end optical systems
- Hands-on experience in working with IP/Switch hardware vendor to enhance / customize solutions
Base Salary Range:
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.
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.
Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
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.
Company at a glance
Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI Capacity
At SambaNova, we're empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing.
Our Mission
To give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow.
Our Technology
We give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise.
Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier.
SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the world's largest organizations.
SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days.
At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.
Top Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Basic life insurance
- Voluntary life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Headspace subscription
- Gympass+ membership
- One medical membership
- Counseling services
- Equity
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