# Staff HPC Systems Architect at Lambda

- Company: Lambda
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Location: San Jose Office (First St) · Remote · San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · Bellevue Office
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $314K–465K
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Skills: Data Center Business, HPC Architecture
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lambda/614dc105-61e2-4f78-827f-05f145211125

## Description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.



If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.



*Note: This position requires presence in our San Jose, San Francisco, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.


What You’ll Do

 - Architect and define scalable compute platforms optimized for AI/ML, simulation, and high-throughput workloads.

 - Develop compute system standards and design patterns to ensure consistency, performance, and maintainability across infrastructure.

 - Evaluate emerging CPU, GPU, and accelerator technologies, owning architectural tradeoff decisions that impact compute density, power, cooling, and total cost.

 - Collaborate with product and engineering teams to map workload requirements to compute platform capabilities across bare metal and cloud deployments.

 - Experience converting ambiguous business or customer needs into measurable platform requirements, technical specifications, acceptance criteria, and architecture decisions.

 - Define compute platform roadmaps and architectural reference designs that guide hardware selection, firmware baselines, rack-level, and cluster design.

 - Act as a technical lead during new platform introductions, guiding validation and performance characterization

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