Staff Software Engineer Compute

43 minutes agoLeadSalary: 314K - 465KBellevue Office; San Francisco Office (Fremont St); San Jose Office (First St)Hybrid Full Time Engineering Jobs by Lambda

Lambda

Lambda is an AI infrastructure company providing GPU supercomputers and cloud capacity for AI training and inference.

Series ERecently fundedCompany intelligence

San Francisco, United States

Funding history

Senior secured term loan B facilitySenior secured credit facilitySeries E ($1.5B)

Investors

Nvidia ARK Invest Razer Bloomberg Beta J.P. Morgan

About Lambda

Lambda, Inc. builds and operates AI-focused compute infrastructure, including single-tenant Superclusters, deployable 1-Click Clusters, and on-demand GPU Instances for researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers.

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Skills

Bios C#Cloud Infrastructure Control Plane Cpu Distributed System Dpu Firmware Go Gpu Infiniband Kubernetes Linux Networking Nvme-Of Python Roce Rust Uefi

Candidate Availability

Hybrid · United States · Required

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will design and implement highly available GPU and CPU host and instance lifecycle control-plane systems. You will guide architecture and security decisions, lead engineers and design reviews, integrate hardware capabilities, translate customer needs into deliverables, and deliver resilient cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

10+ years working on distributed compute control planes for heterogeneous compute platforms
Expertise in durable execution models and distributed systems for cloud-service provisioning
Knowledge of software-defined networking fundamentals
Experience leading semiconductor hardware enablement and deployment initiatives
Experience deploying new data centers into a global compute platform
Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, Python, or Go

Responsibilities

Design and implement a highly available GPU and CPU host and instance lifecycle control plane
Guide decisions on semiconductor architecture, BIOS, firmware, boot methodologies, and DPU utilization
Guide the design of the compute-platform multi-tenant security model
Provide technical leadership and mentorship for senior engineers
Collaborate to translate customer requirements into scalable infrastructure capabilities
Translate customer technical requirements into engineering deliverables
Set engineering standards and lead design reviews for mission-critical cloud software

Benefits

Cash and equity compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
401k plan with 2% company match for USA employees
Flexible paid time off