Lead AI Solutions Architect - Agentic Systems & Open Models

Jobs in JS; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 234,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

SambaNova Systems is seeking a Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer to drive technical direction and deliver production‑grade, agentic applications. You will architect multi‑agent systems, integrate open-weight models, and lead hands‑on engagements with strategic customers across the full AI stack.

Responsibilities span design of evals, observability, and reference architectures; you will mentor the solutions team and shape the SambaStack tooling and platform roadmaps through customer feedback.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Statistics or a related field.
• 8+ years (IC5) or 10+ years (IC6) of industry experience in software, ML or solutions engineering, including 3+ years building LLM-based applications that reached production
• Proven experience building agentic systems: tool and function calling, multi-agent orchestration and frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK or equivalent
• Hands‑on experience with open-weight models: serving, prompting, fine-tuning (LoRA/PEFT) and evaluation
• Strong full-stack skills: expert Python plus modern front-end development (TypeScript, React/Next.js), APIs and cloud deployment
• Experience designing evals and benchmarks for LLM applications: covering quality, latency and cost
• Excellent customer communication: with the ability to lead workshops and explain architecture to both executives and engineers
• A track record of technical leadership across teams: setting architecture direction, mentoring senior engineers and owning outcomes for strategic accounts

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic systems with planning, tool and function calling, memory and long-running workflows for production use
• Build self-improving systems with automated evals, prompts, data generation and fine-tuning from production signals
• Set up eval harnesses, tracing and guardrails to measure quality, cost and latency

Skills

Python

TypeScript

React/Next.js

APIs

Cloud deployment

Customer communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/EE/Math/Physics

8+ years (IC5) or 10+ years (IC6) in software/ML/solutions engineering

3+ years building LLM-based production apps

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

OpenAI Agents SDK

Claude Agent SDK

Job description

SambaNova Systems is seeking a Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer to drive technical direction and deliver production‑grade, agentic applications. You will architect multi‑agent systems, integrate open-weight models, and lead hands‑on engagements with strategic customers across the full AI stack.

Responsibilities span design of evals, observability, and reference architectures; you will mentor the solutions team and shape the SambaStack tooling and platform roadmaps through customer feedback.