Senior Principal Runtime Engineer

SambaNova Systems
Stockholm, Sweden2026-08-28

About the job

The Runtime team at Sambanova is a seasoned engineering team with a proven track record of delivering cutting-edge system software solutions for AI and machine learning applications in the enterprise & commercial landscape. Runtime is responsible for the lowest levels of the SambaNova stack, efficiently interacting with the hardware to provide the best application performance and maximize hardware utilization. We are searching for a software engineer who will work on all parts of the runtime stacks, supporting AI, ML, and scientific applications in high-performance distributed systems.

Responsibilities

Work on design and implementation of new and enhanced features of the runtime stack to support high performance and scalable ML inference and training applications

System software (drivers and kernel) support for the next generation silicon

Design user-space libraries for high performance and high utilization of HW resources

User-facing tools (analysis, job and HW management, profiling, debugging, etc) for Datascale systems

Collaborate with other teams including Hardware, ML Application, Compiler, DevOps

Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent and with 3-5 years of industry experience

Proficiency in C/C++ and Python

Experience with user space libraries, operating systems, and kernel drivers

Experience working with highly concurrent and distributed systems, with a focus on performance and scalability

Preferred

Experience with different types of fabrics, such as PCIe, Infiniband, and RoCE

Experience with fast networking stacks, such as RDMA

Good communication skills and enthusiasm to help colleagues