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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 Cloud Platform team owns the production inferencing service that serves SambaNova's models to customers on RDU accelerators, including capacity planning, deployment, monitoring, and incident response across regions in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.\nAbout the role\nAs a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be specializing in our AI Inferencing Service and will be the guardian of its reliability, performance, and scalability. You will bridge the gap between software development and operations, applying an engineering mindset to solve operational challenges. Your primary focus will be ensuring our inference endpoints have exceptional uptime, low-latency response times, and efficient resource utilization, directly impacting the experience of our customers and the success of our AI products. 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