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Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer

San Jose, CAFull-time$234k2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and build agentic AI systems, self-improving loops, and full-stack vertical solutions (voice, multimodal, RAG) for strategic customers using SambaNova's RDU-based inference platform.

Role type

Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer (hands-on IC with technical leadership)

Builds

Agentic applications, self-improving evaluation loops, full-stack web interfaces, and domain-specific AI solutions (finance, legal, healthcare)

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Agentic AI / LLM Applications

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Agentic system design (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK), open-weight model expertise (LoRA/PEFT, distillation), full-stack development (Python, TypeScript, React/Next.js), LLM evaluation and benchmarking, technical leadership and mentorship

Preferred skills

Self-improving/learning systems, real-time voice agents (LiveKit, WebRTC), multimodal/vision-language pipelines, enterprise RAG and agent security, inference framework tuning (vLLM, SGLang)

Technologies

RDU, SambaRack, LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Python

Responsibilities

Design multi-agent systems with planning and tool use; build feedback loops for automated evaluation and optimization; develop production-ready web applications for knowledge workers; lead technical discovery and co-builds with customer CTOs; set technical direction for the solutions portfolio; mentor senior engineers

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship