Senior Principal Hardware Emulation Engineer
SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of SambaNova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into SambaRack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.
About the team
The emulation team builds the pre-silicon model of SambaNova's RDU that the software, architecture, and verification teams depend on.
About the role
SambaNova is looking for a Senior Principal Engineer to build and own the hardware emulation models for our next-generation Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit — the silicon behind our AI workload acceleration systems.
Emulation is a development platform here, not a checkbox. Our software teams bring up drivers, runtime, and compiler against the emulation model months before silicon. Our architects measure
