Principal NLP Engineer

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

SambaNova is hiring a Principal NLP Engineer for the Applied Machine Learning (ML) team.

• Design and implement large-scale data pipelines that feed billions of high-quality tokens into LLMs.
• Continuously 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.
• 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering or science fields
• 5-10 years of hands-on engineering experience in machine learning

Additional Required Qualifications

• Experience with one or more deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe2, or Theano
• A deep 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.
• Experience in leading small teams.
• Experience in Python and/or C++.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a high-growth startup
• 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

Annual Salary Range and Level

The base salary for this position ranges from $140,000/year up to $210,000/year. This range is based on role, level, and location and reflects the salary target for new hires in the US. Individual pay within the range will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s job-related qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location.

Benefits Summary

SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 80% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits includes a full subscription to Headspace, access to One Medical, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.

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