Lambda

Senior HPC Engineer - Fleet Engineering

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2 months ago
Remote, United States +3 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$227k - $356k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate monitoring and alerting for fabric, GPU, power, thermal, and job-level cluster health signals.
  • Remotely deploy and configure large-scale HPC clusters for AI workloads using automation.
  • Automate operating system, firmware, driver, and networking lifecycle management with Ansible and Terraform.
  • Create runbooks and automated remediations for common cluster failure modes.
  • Troubleshoot InfiniBand, RoCE, CLOS fabrics, 100GbE, Ethernet switching, GPU-direct, NCCL, fabric, power, and cluster issues.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response for cluster-level problems.
  • Maintain standard operating procedures and provide requirements to engineering teams focused on stability and operational efficiency.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, HPC Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role.
  • Strong understanding of modern AI infrastructure, GPU architectures, hardware performance optimization, and Linux-based distributed systems.
  • Experience configuring and troubleshooting InfiniBand, RoCE, CLOS fabrics, 100GbE, Ethernet switching, GPU-direct, and NCCL environments.
  • Solid Python and Go skills and experience collaborating with software engineering teams on internal tooling.
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ClickHouse.
  • Proficiency with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
  • Preferred experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, DeepSpeed, MLPerf, Docker, Kubernetes, HPC resources, NVIDIA hardware and firmware, data center power and thermal design, chaos engineering, and compliance frameworks including SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Benefits

  • Generous cash and equity compensation.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles.
  • 401(k) plan with a 2% company match for USA employees.
  • Flexible paid time off plan.

Tech Stack

AnsibleClickHouseDockerGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonPyTorchTensorFlowTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About Lambda

501-1,000 employees

Lambda provides GPU cloud computing and on-prem AI hardware—servers, clusters, and workstations—for teams training and serving large ML models. Its products include NVIDIA H100/A100 instances, managed clusters, and the Lambda Stack software, sold via usage-based cloud pricing and hardware sales. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company serves researchers, startups, enterprises, and hyperscalers.

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