Software Engineer - Fleet Orchestration
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.
*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco or San Jose office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
What You'll Do
Build and own fleet data systems that make Lambda's GPU datacenter hardware legible at scale — indexing, validating, and reconciling physical host state against intended logical configuration
Lead the design and implementation of automation that orchestrates GPU cluster deployments from logical design import and racking through OS provisioning, validation, and customer hand-off
Design systems that continuously validate consistency between intended and actual state across large-scale GPU environments, catching drift before it causes deployment failures or delays
Design and implement ownership, global locking, readiness gating, and action safety systems that keep fleet operations coordinated across teams and tools
Own Fleet Orc's technical contribution to new datacenter site bring-up, working cross-functionally with HPC Deployments, DC Ops, Network Engineering, and Core Infrastructure
Monitor production health, hold SLAs, and drive resolution when things drift
You
Have 5+ years of engineering experience (degree not required)
Are fluent in Python, Go, or similar — comfortable with APIs, distributed systems, and automation pipelines
Can reason about PXE boot, firmware provisioning, IPMI/BMC interfaces, and network services like DNS and DHCP from first principles
Have owned production systems with real SLAs
Can lead technical design on medium-to-large features: take an ambiguous problem, write the doc, drive alignment, and ship
Have worked cross-functionally and influenced technical decisions beyond your immediate team
Have mentored peers and left systems — and teammates — better than you found them
Nice to Have
Experience in the machine learning or AI infrastructure industry
Familiarity with datacenter physical infrastructure — racks, switches, InfiniBand fabric, power domains
Background that blends software engineering with systems or infrastructure engineering
Experience with network source-of-truth systems (NetBox or similar) or DCIM tooling
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Lambda
Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
Compensation: USD 296,000 - 395,000 per year