Principal Place and Route (PnR) Engineer

Nova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of Samba

Nova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into Samba

Rack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.

The Place and Route team writes the software that maps dataflow graphs onto Samba

Nova’s Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Our tools partition each graph, place the pieces on the chip’s compute and memory units, and route the communication between them. The quality of that mapping sets the throughput of the compiled program, including large language model inference and training.

We are looking to grow our team with highly motivated engineers who want to utilize advanced algorithms to solve challenging problems. About the Role You will develop and tune the partitioning, placement, and routing algorithms that map customer workloads onto the RDU. You will work with the compiler team, hardware architects, and performance engineers to model new hardware constraints and trace throughput gaps back to mapping decisions.

Your changes will ship in production releases and