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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.\nAbout the Team\nThe AI Performance team brings up and optimizes foundation models such as DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, and GPT OSS on SambaNova's dataflow platform. We profile and tune models across the compiler, runtime, and hardware layers to improve inference throughput and latency.\nAbout the Role\nAs a new grad AI Performance Engineer, you'll bring up new open source models on the SambaNova stack and work to make them run faster. 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