# Forward Deployment 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. Join the company that's building the future of AI computing. SambaNova is disrupting the AI and high-performance computing space with an integrated hardware and software platform. Our SambaStack inference serving platform is pushing the boundaries of inference serving for generative AI and large language models. We are a team of passionate innovators tackling some of the world's most challenging computational problems. We help enterprises and service providers host their own AI inference platforms, powered by our state-of-the-art RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) hardware architectu

- **Id**: 920167
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sambanova-systems-forward-deployment-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tokyo, Japan
- **Countries**: JP
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T17:52:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T03:09:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5825
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: LLM & Generative AI, Servers & Data Center Hardware, AI Compute & Inference, AI Chips & Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 100
- **Name**: SambaNova Systems
- **Domain**: sambanova.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sambanova>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 18
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 49
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 10500000
- **Max**: 13000000
- **Currency**: JPY
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 82758

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **DSPy** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **SGLang** — Optional: no
- **TPU** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T00:06:44Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 33
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.593
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 54
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 82758
- **Is top pay**: no

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