SambaNova
Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer
$234K–$286K
San Jose, California, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years (IC5) or 10+ years (IC6) of industry experience, including 3+ years building production LLM-based applications.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, or a related field.
About the job
Leads technical strategy and builds production-ready agentic AI and full-stack solutions for strategic customers on SambaNova’s platform.
What you'll do
- Design and build agentic systems, self-improving evaluation loops, and multimodal or voice applications; optimize open-model use and performance.
- Lead customer engagements from discovery and prototypes through production, advise executives, and publish reusable reference architectures and tools.
- Set technical direction for the solutions portfolio, mentor engineers, and feed customer and platform needs back to Product and Engineering.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, or a related field.
- 8+ years (IC5) or 10+ years (IC6) of industry experience in software, ML, or solutions engineering, including 3+ years building LLM-based applications that reached production.
- Proven agentic-systems experience; hands-on open-weight model serving, prompting, fine-tuning, and evaluation; expert Python and modern front-end skills, APIs, and cloud deployment.
- Experience designing LLM application evaluations and benchmarks; strong customer communication and a track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and owning strategic-account outcomes.
Nice to have
- Experience with self-improving systems, real-time voice agents, multimodal models, or document-understanding pipelines.
- Familiarity with inference frameworks, enterprise-scale RAG, MCP, agent security and guardrails, or open-source AI contributions.
Pay
$234,000 — $286,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, TypeScript, React/Next.js, LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
AI focus
Builds production agentic and self-improving AI systems using open-weight models, evaluation and observability, multimodal and document pipelines, and real-time voice applications.
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