Lambda
Staff HPC Systems Architect
$314K–$465K
San Jose Office (First St) +2 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- San Jose Office (First St)
San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
Bellevue Office - Experience
- 7+ years.
About the job
Architects large-scale HPC and cloud compute platforms for AI/ML, simulation, and high-throughput workloads, guiding platform design, validation, and performance decisions.
What you'll do
- Define compute platform standards, roadmaps, and architectural reference designs across hardware, firmware, racks, and clusters.
- Evaluate CPU, GPU, and accelerator technologies and make tradeoffs involving performance, density, power, cooling, and cost.
- Lead platform introductions and validation, translate workload needs into requirements, and mentor engineers and stakeholders.
What they ask for
- 7+ years architecting large-scale 10k–100k+ GPU HPC or cloud compute platforms.
- Deep knowledge of CPU/GPU architectures, memory hierarchies, and accelerator topologies.
- Experience designing systems using high-bandwidth, low-latency fabrics, including NVLink, InfiniBand, and RoCE.
- Strong understanding of performance tuning, resource scheduling, thermal and power optimization, and compute lifecycle management.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML workloads and compute performance characteristics.
- Familiarity with HPC orchestration tools such as Slurm or Kubernetes.
Pay
$314K – $465K USD base salary
Tools
NVLink, InfiniBand, RoCE, Slurm, Kubernetes
AI focus
Architects compute platforms optimized for AI/ML workloads and evaluates their performance characteristics.
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