Lambda
Senior HPC Systems Architect
$296K–$395K
San Jose Office (Zanker) +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
- Location
- San Jose Office (Zanker)
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) - Experience
- 8+ years.
About the job
Designs and leads the development, testing, and implementation of large-scale, liquid-cooled HPC systems for computational workloads and AI applications.
What you'll do
- Architect HPC systems and define requirements and performance goals with internal teams.
- Develop testing frameworks and validate system performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Document architecture and provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years designing and architecting large-scale HPC and distributed computing systems.
- Expert knowledge of HPC hardware, including GPU clusters, compute nodes, high-speed networking, and distributed storage.
- Hands-on experience with direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems.
- Experience with performance benchmarking, capacity planning, and system validation.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with AI infrastructure design.
- Familiarity with cloud or hybrid-cloud HPC architectures, or Ansible, Terraform, or Kubernetes.
Pay
$296K – $395K (base salary)
Tools
GPU clusters, InfiniBand, Ethernet, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes
AI focus
Designs HPC infrastructure for AI applications; prior AI infrastructure design experience is preferred.
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