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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 Post-Silicon Validation team brings up, debugs, and validates the high-speed IO and memory subsystems in SambaNova systems. We characterize and stress test silicon, root-cause issues across silicon, board, and software, and build our own debug tools and automation.\nAbout the Role\nAs a new grad Post-Silicon Validation Engineer, you'll test new RDU silicon in the lab. 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