Lambda
Senior HPC Engineer - Fleet Engineering
$227K–$356K
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +3 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
San Jose Office (First St)
Remote, USA
Bellevue Office - Experience
- 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, HPC Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role.
About the job
Builds and operates large-scale AI HPC clusters, automating deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and incident response.
What you'll do
- Build cluster-health monitoring and alerting; deploy and configure HPC clusters remotely using automation.
- Automate cluster lifecycle management and create runbooks and remediations for common failures.
- Troubleshoot cluster networking, GPU, fabric, and power issues; participate in on-call and lead incident response.
What they ask for
- Strong understanding of AI infrastructure, GPU architectures, and hardware performance optimization.
- Strong Linux systems knowledge in distributed environments and experience configuring and troubleshooting InfiniBand, RoCE, CLOS fabrics, 100GbE, Ethernet/switching, GPU-direct, and NCCL.
- Solid understanding of Python and Go; experience with monitoring and alerting tools and automation/configuration management tools.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills and attention to detail.
Nice to have
- Experience with machine learning frameworks and benchmarking tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, DeepSpeed, or MLPerf.
- Knowledge of containerization/orchestration, NVIDIA hardware and firmware, data center power and thermal design, reliability testing, or compliance frameworks.
Pay
$227K – $356K USD base salary
Tools
Ansible, Terraform, Linux, InfiniBand, RoCE, NCCL, Python, Go
AI focus
Supports AI workloads by operating GPU-based HPC infrastructure and optimizing its performance and reliability.
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