SambaNova
Director of Product, Ecosystem
$243K–$297K
San Jose, California, United States · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in AI infrastructure, accelerators, or data center systems, including 8+ years in product management.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads SambaNova’s ecosystem strategy and partner integrations, enabling RDU to work across AI infrastructure stacks and converting those integrations into deployments and customer demand.
What you'll do
- Set integration strategy and positioning for RDU across networking, serving, storage, prefill, CPU offload, and compiler ecosystems.
- Develop partner reference architectures, certifications, software integrations, and deployment enablement.
- Drive joint go-to-market, external positioning, and ecosystem performance reporting.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in AI infrastructure, accelerators, or data center systems, including 8+ years in product management with direct ecosystem, platform, or partner-facing product ownership.
- Shipped partner-facing artifacts adopted by external teams, such as reference architectures, certification programs, or integration surfaces.
- Working fluency across the listed infrastructure domains, with depth in at least two; technical depth in network fabric topologies and inference serving stacks.
- Track record converting partnerships into deployments, demand, or revenue; fluency in inference economics and concise executive communication.
Nice to have
- Experience at both a silicon or systems vendor and a model lab or inference provider; experience delivering model-provider co-optimization.
- Contributions to or close working relationships with vLLM, SGLang, llm-d, PyTorch, or MLIR; hardware sales-cycle or joint go-to-market experience.
Pay
$243,000 — $297,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
RDU, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, vLLM, SGLang, llm-d, PyTorch
AI focus
Shapes the ecosystem and partner strategy for AI inference infrastructure, including RDU integrations, inference-engine co-optimization, model partner work, and compiler and RDU research adoption.
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