# Senior System Administrator

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. About the role SambaNova is scaling from rack-scale systems to global AI compute clusters, and the Linux fleet underneath that growth has to be provisioned, upgraded, and kept running without drift. We're looking for a Senior System Administrator to own that layer end to end, across our own data centers and the environments we run for customers. Responsibilities In this role you'll deploy and operate a heterogeneous fleet that runs from x86 servers to several different AI accelerators, and keep it healthy as the hardware mix changes. You'll administer multiple infrastructures serving

- **Id**: 4288354
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sambanova-systems-senior-system-administrator>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:32:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T04:10:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4142
- **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**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.632
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 190000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 190000

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **DHCP** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **LDAP** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Red Hat** — Optional: no
- **Debian** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T22:34:42Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23 · green card filings: 30; Filings 12m: 23

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T04:40:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 190000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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