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SambaNova

Principal Product Manager

$190K–$230K

San Jose, California, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026

Experience
7+ years combined product management and technical roles, including 3+ years as a PM on AI/ML, developer, or infrastructure products.
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.

About the job

Owns SambaNova’s end-to-end model and capability roadmap, evaluating models, setting launch priorities, and coordinating delivery and positioning across teams.

What you'll do

  • Own the model stack rank, per-chip roadmap, prioritization reviews, commitments, launches, and roadmap communications.
  • Define model feature-completeness and quality criteria; identify capability gaps and drive them to closure with engineering.
  • Test and evaluate models hands-on, build demos or prototypes, and use findings to inform roadmap decisions and messaging.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
  • 7+ years of combined product management and technical-role experience, including 3+ years as a PM on AI/ML, developer, or infrastructure products.
  • Strong working knowledge of LLM architectures, inference trade-offs, and features such as function calling, structured output, and reasoning.
  • Track record owning roadmaps and shipping; data skills for prioritization models and dashboards; hands-on model API use, evals, experiments, and simple prototypes.

Nice to have

  • Product experience at an inference provider, model lab, AI cloud, or AI hardware company.
  • Familiarity with inference stacks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM), API-compatible services, or model evaluations and benchmarks.

Pay

$190,000 — $230,000 USD base pay range

Tools

Jira, Python, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, OpenAI Chat, Responses, Anthropic

AI focus

Owns the model roadmap and capability bar for AI inference, including hands-on LLM evaluation, model launches, and prototyping.

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First seen Oct 16, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)