SambaNova Systems
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How SambaNova Systems hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
32 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
SambaNova Systems scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 32 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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Overview
SambaNova Systems is an American artificial intelligence company founded in 2017 by Stanford professors Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Re together with former Oracle executive Rodrigo Liang. It designs the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit, a processor whose datapath is configured to match a model's computation graph rather than executing fixed instructions, and pairs it with a three-tier memory system that keeps very large models resident. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company sells complete systems and a hosted cloud service to enterprises and governments that want to run frontier open models on their own terms rather than through a public model provider.
News
RDU Next-Gen AI Chip for Inference at Scale
RDU chips from SambaNova are purpose-built for agentic inference. The SN50 is the only chip with the speed and throughput required for agentic AI.
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Rodrigo Liang, SambaNova CEO: A Fortt Knox Conversation
Rodrigo Liang, SambaNova's co-founder and CEO, argues in a Fortt Knox 1:1 that efficient general-purpose inference chips win as enterprises "wake up" and repatriate AI on-prem for privacy and cost. He touts a $1B raise at $11B and a multiyear Intel pact t
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Inference chip startup SambaNova valued at $11B in $1B funding round
Inference chip startup SambaNova valued at $11B in $1B funding round - SiliconANGLE
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SambaNova CEO: Strongly considering IPO, likely in U.S.
SambaNova CEO and Co-founder Rodrigo Liang, discusses the AI chip startup's latest funding round, as well as its IPO plans at the RAISE summit in Paris, France.
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SambaNova hits $11 billion valuation as investors back Nvidia chip challengers
SambaNova is valued at $11 billion after fresh financing led by General Atlantic, as AI chip startups look to challenge Nvidia.
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
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Why are AI bills exploding? Sara Hooker says companies are deploying armies of agents that aren't actually learning
After years of pursuing ever larger models, AI leaders are increasingly focused on efficiency, adaptability, and the rising cost of inference.
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SambaNova CEO on IPO prospects: We're excited for what the next 12 months will bring
Rodrigo Liang, co-founder and CEO of SambaNova, says he is "really excited" about the IPO market and it is only natural for the company to be considering all possible financing paths. He also discusses the token speed and energy efficiency of heterogenous
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at SambaNova Systems over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
157
Postings analysed
76
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python53%
C++21%
Rust14%
SystemVerilog14%
Frameworks & libraries
SGLang12%
CUDA8%
DSPy5%
UVM5%
Databases
Memcached3%
Redis3%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes22%
Linux17%
AWS11%
vLLM11%
AI & ML
LLM24%
Claude11%
DeepSeek5%
Llama5%
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Full SambaNova Systems tech stack
157 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$240k
Typical range
$83k – $350k
Open positions
46
44
Jobs
Middle
4.5%
Senior
38.6%
Staff
6.8%
Principal
27.3%
Architect
22.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 2 | $197k | $190k – $204k |
| Senior | 17 | $200k | $83k – $255k |
| Staff | 3 | $193k | $123k – $240k |
| Principal | 12 | $258k | $230k – $300k |
| Architect | 10 | $325k | $215k – $350k |
Highest paying role
AI Hardware System Architect
$350k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at SambaNova Systems
By role, level and city, against the market · 46 jobs with pay
Products
SambaManaged
SambaManaged is the turnkey deployment offering that stands up inference capacity inside an existing data centre. It targets operators who want AI capacity without redesigning power and cooling.
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SambaFlow
SambaFlow is the compiler and runtime that maps model graphs onto the reconfigurable dataflow architecture. It handles the spatial placement that gives the hardware its efficiency.
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DataScale
DataScale is the rack-scale system that packages the company's processors, memory and software into deployable infrastructure. Governments and enterprises install it inside their own data centres.
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Cloud
SambaNova Cloud is the hosted inference service running open frontier models at high token throughput. Developers access it through an API compatible with common client libraries.
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SN40L
The SN40L is the company's reconfigurable dataflow processor with a three-tier memory design that holds very large models on a single node. It is built for both training and high-throughput inference.
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People
Rodrigo Liang
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Rodrigo Liang co-founded SambaNova in 2017 and leads it as chief executive. He previously ran Oracle's SPARC processor and ASIC development organisation.
Kunle Olukotun
Co-Founder & Chief Technologist
Kunle Olukotun co-founded SambaNova and serves as its chief technologist. A Stanford professor, he led the Stanford Hydra project and is widely credited as a pioneer of multi-core processor design.
Christopher Re
Co-Founder
Christopher Re co-founded SambaNova and is a Stanford computer science professor and MacArthur Fellow. His research on data-centric machine learning shaped the company's software approach.
Oyekunle Olukotun
Director
Lip-Bu Tan
Director
Dave Munichiello
Director
Wendell Brooks
Director
Amy Chang
Director
Anthony Lin
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
59
12 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
31 days
faster than 39% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
21% ▼
Marketing
14% ▲
Backend
11% ▼
Product
7% ▲
Sales
7% ▲
Solutions
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Marketing (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Santa Clara
Oct 2026
Added GA4 to stack
Sep 2026
Added PHP to stack
Sep 2026
Added WordPress to stack
Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack
Sep 2026
Added Canva to stack
Sep 2026
Added Asana to stack
Sep 2026
Added OpenAI to stack
Sep 2026
Removed Windows from stack
Sep 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tokenomics to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
15
Hiring now
7
Countries
10
Busiest office
San Jose
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Palo Alto
United States
HQ
San Jose
United States
Plant / site
San Jose, CA
43 open roles 39 posted in 90 days 44% engineering 2% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $254k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Product, Marketing
Austin
United States
Engineering / R&D
Austin, TX
8 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 88% engineering 13% remote 200-500 est. staff $258k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, DevOps, Networking
Bengaluru
India
Engineering / R&D
Bengaluru, India
6 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 83% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Solutions
London
United Kingdom
Sales office
London, UK
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff $214k Avg Salary
hires for Frontend, Marketing, Customer Success
Tokyo
Japan
Support & operations
Tokyo, Japan
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $103k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Solutions
Stockholm
Sweden
Engineering / R&D
Stockholm, Sweden
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
Santa Clara
United States
Regional office
Santa Clara, CA
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Regional office
Dubai, UAE
Seoul
South Korea
Regional office
Korea
Istanbul
Turkey
Regional office
Istanbul, Turkey
Ankara
Turkey
Regional office
Ankara, Türkiye
Toronto
Canada
Regional office
Toronto, ON, Canada
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Regional office
Cambridge, UK
Jobs
$190k – $230k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
vLLM
Quantization
Function Calling
AI Agents
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
Mixture of Experts
OpenRouter
OpenAI
Anthropic
Hugging Face
Structured Outputs
Speculative Decoding
Prompt Caching
Tool Use
Machine Learning
Management
Jira
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$245k – $325k per year • In office • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • San Jose
Python
Go
Rust
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
Helm
Kubernetes
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≈ $190k – $385k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Master's Degree • San Jose
AI Agents
Apply
$250k – $350k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 15+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Austin • San Jose
Python
Rust
C++
AI Agents
Machine Learning
Apply
$250k – $330k per year • In office • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • San Jose
AI Agents
InfiniBand
NVLink
DevOps
HPC
BGP
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$250k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
AI Agents
TPU
DevOps
HPC
Apply
$234k – $286k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
LangGraph
LangChain
Claude
Qwen
DeepSeek
DSPy
LoRA
Model Context Protocol
vLLM
Gemma
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Function Calling
AI Agents
Speech Recognition
SGLang
TensorRT
PEFT
TensorRT-LLM
Llama
Transformers
CrewAI
LLM
RAG
Synthetic Data
OpenAI Agents SDK
OCR
Text-to-Speech
LiveKit
LLM Evaluation
LLM Guardrails
Voice Agents
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
Model Distillation
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
WebRTC
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$167k – $204k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
PHP
WordPress
AI/ML
AI Agents
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Asana
Jira
Apply
$196k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Jose
Python
Multimodal AI
Function Calling
AI Agents
OpenAI
Prompt Caching
Tool Use
DevOps
GitHub
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$67k – $83k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Tokyo
Python
C++
LangChain
DSPy
LlamaIndex
CUDA Toolkit
Fine-tuning
Quantization
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
SGLang
LLM
RAG
CUDA
TPU
Multi-Agent Systems
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Apply
$216k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
Groq
AI Agents
LLM
Cerebras
TPU
InfiniBand
NVLink
AWS Trainium
DevOps
AWS
Web3
Tokenomics
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$243k – $297k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
vLLM
CUDA Toolkit
AI Agents
SGLang
PyTorch
CUDA
ROCm
MLIR
DevOps
Prometheus
Kubernetes
Grafana
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Financials
Total raised
$2.2B
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
8
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | $678M | — | Details |
| Series D | 2021 | $676M | $5.1B | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | $158.1M | — | Details |
| Series C | 2020 | $250M | $2.5B | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2019 | $141.6M | — | Details |
| Series B | 2019 | $150M | — | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2018 | $56.6M | — | Details |
| Series A | 2018 | $56M | — |
Key Investors
Walden International
Walden International co-led SambaNova's Series A round. The firm specialises in semiconductor and technology investments across the United States and Asia.
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BlackRock
BlackRock joined SambaNova's Series D financing. The asset manager has taken positions across several AI hardware companies.
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Intel Capital
Intel Capital invested in SambaNova's growth rounds. The arm funds semiconductor and computing infrastructure companies.
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GV
GV, Alphabet's venture arm, backed SambaNova from its Series B onwards. The firm invests across deep technology and life sciences.
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SoftBank Vision Fund
SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 led SambaNova's Series D at a five billion dollar valuation. The round was one of the largest ever raised by an AI chip company.
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