Lambda
Senior HPC Platform Hardware Engineer
$255K–$340K
San Jose Office (Zanker) · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years required; 10+ years listed as a nice-to-have.
About the job
Leads integration, evaluation, and new product introduction of HPC hardware platforms for Lambda’s AI cloud, from lab bring-up through production deployment.
What you'll do
- Lead hardware NPI, including system bring-up, documentation, vendor engagement, production readiness, and risk closure.
- Debug hardware issues and coordinate fixes across engineering, vendors, quality, reliability, supply chain, and deployment teams.
- Translate platform architectures into hardware configurations; evaluate systems and review BOMs for accuracy and compatibility.
What they ask for
- 5 years of technical lead experience in hardware NPI and deployment for HPC, data center, or cloud infrastructure products.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of one or more AI/ML, general compute, storage, or network hardware platforms.
- Broad hardware engineering knowledge in one or more domains, such as electrical, thermal, mechanical, power, signal integrity, safety, compliance, reliability, or manufacturing.
- Experience with PLM systems and BOM structure; ability to bring up hardware in labs and triage/root-cause hardware issues.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of relevant technical lead experience.
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, accelerated compute, rack-scale servers, liquid cooling, or fleet observability and automation.
Pay
$255K – $340K (base salary)
Tools
HPC, AI/ML, x86, ARM, PLM, BOM, NVIDIA, AMD
AI focus
Integrates and enables HPC AI/ML and accelerated-compute hardware for AI cloud infrastructure.
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