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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