Working at SambaNova

This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI and the value it can unlock across every aspect of an organization’s business and operations, including innovating from strategic product pathfinding to large-scale production. We are excited to have talents on board, pushing towards democratizing the modern NLP capability in real-world use cases.

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing

• Work alongside the team that are designing and implementing large-scale data pipelines that feed billions of high-quality tokens into LLMs.
• Continuously help improve SambaNova’s LLM by exploring new ideas, including but not limited to new modeling techniques, prompt engineering, instruction tuning, and alignment.
• Curate and crawl the necessary dataset to induce domain specificity.
• Collaborate with product management and executive teams to develop a roadmap for continuous improvement of LLM and incorporate new capabilities.
• Work closely with the product team and our customers to translate product requirements into requisite LLM capabilities.
• help expand LLM capabilities into new languages and domains.
• Develop applications on top of LLMs including but not limited to semantic search, summarization, conversational agents, etc.

We would love for you to have:

• 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience in machine learning would be preferable
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering, any of the Sciences or equivalent
• Experience in Python and/or C++
• Experience with one or more deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe2, or Theano
• Experience working in a high-growth startup

In addition to this, if you have any of the following experience, it would be welcomed:

• A thorough theoretical or empirical understanding of deep learning
• Experience building and deploying machine learning models
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Experience with either one of Large Language Models, Multilingual Models, Semantic Search, Summarization, Data Pipelines, Domain Adaptation (finance, legal, or bio-medical), and conversational agents.

At SambaNova we pride ourselves on all working together with one common goal so qualities we look for when hiring are:

• A team player who demonstrates humility
• Action-oriented with a focus on speed & results
• Ability to thrive in a no-boundaries culture & make an impact on innovation

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