Lambda

Senior Systems Engineer - Enterprise AI Platforms

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1 month ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or San Jose, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$206k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, write, and deliver software and services for Lambda’s internal IT systems and platforms.
  • Build and scale internal AI tooling, including low-code/no-code and custom platforms integrated with LLM workflows.
  • Deploy, monitor, and optimize internal AI proxy gateways for model routing, rate limiting, latency, and inference-cost control.
  • Integrate AI agents into IT workflows such as chat bots, incident triage, log parsing, user provisioning, and ticket routing.
  • Manage deployments, serverless functions, and infrastructure pipelines while maintaining 99.9% uptime for internal systems.
  • Perform capacity planning, demand forecasting, performance analysis, system tuning, and automation of recurring operational responses.
  • Implement guardrails, data-privacy controls, and secret management for sensitive corporate data.
  • Create system documentation and collaborate asynchronously with internal teams on designs, architectures, standards, and methods.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or IT systems engineering involving building and running systems in code.
  • Experience designing and deploying internal platforms using tools such as Appsmith and custom Vercel-hosted frontends.
  • Experience integrating LLM workflows and AI agents into internal IT and operational processes.
  • Experience managing AI infrastructure, proxy gateways, API rate limits, latency optimization, and inference costs.
  • Experience with deployments, serverless functions, infrastructure pipelines, and AWS or GCP.
  • Experience implementing or managing paging, alerting, and on-call scheduling flows is preferred.
  • Interest or experience with ML/AI workloads and compute is preferred.
  • Strong communication, documentation, collaboration, initiative, and rapid-iteration abilities.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range is provided in the posting, but no specific figures are listed.
  • 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.
  • Hybrid schedule requiring presence in the San Francisco or San Jose office four days per week, with Tuesday designated as the work-from-home day.

Tech Stack

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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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