Custom AI inference hardware and cloud platform for sovereign, on-premise deployments
SambaNova designs proprietary silicon and system software for AI inference, positioning itself between cloud providers and enterprises that need data sovereignty. The tech stack reveals a hardware-to-software stack (MLIR, kernel drivers, PCIe Gen5/6 validation, InfiniBand) alongside inference frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX). Hiring is heavily engineering-skewed (19 of 26 roles) with senior and principal engineers driving silicon bring-up, kernel development, and performance validation—indicating active silicon iteration cycles and a push to close reliability and integration gaps before scaling enterprise adoption.
SambaNova builds custom AI inference hardware and full-stack software for organizations requiring on-premise or sovereign AI deployments. The product portfolio spans three offerings: Samba Cloud (managed inference with OpenAI-compatible APIs), SambaStack (on-premise system including silicon, platform, and foundation models), and SambaManaged (a white-label cloud for data centers and cloud providers). The company was founded in 2017 and operates from Palo Alto with 201–500 employees. Current work centers on scaling inference performance, accelerating silicon bring-up cycles, and closing product gaps in reliability and cloud integration.
SambaNova offers three products: Samba Cloud for managed inference with OpenAI-compatible APIs, SambaStack for on-premise deployment with custom silicon and foundation models, and SambaManaged for data center operators.
Core stack includes custom silicon, MLIR compiler, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Kubernetes, InfiniBand, RDMA, PCIe Gen5/6, kernel drivers, and foundation models including Llama and DeepSeek.
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