Director of Network Capacity Automation (AI Cloud)

Location: Hybrid, with presence in the Bellevue or San Francisco office four days per week; Tuesday is the designated work-from-home day.

Salary: $399,000–$531,000 annually in Bellevue or $443,000–$590,000 annually in San Francisco.

Company

Lambda builds AI cloud infrastructure for AI researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers, with a focus on large-scale GPU computing.

What you will do

• Own network capacity planning, delivery, turn-up, lifecycle, and readiness ahead of customer demand.
• Build and lead the organization responsible for network capacity automation, including hiring, development, retention, and team structure.
• Set the multi-year technical strategy and convert manual capacity processes into durable software pipelines.
• Establish operational standards for planning, reviewing, shipping, measuring, and learning from capacity work.
• Partner with Interconnect, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Product, Finance, and technical leadership on capacity roadmaps and dependencies.
• Represent technical direction with senior leadership, enterprise customers, and partners while improving organization-wide engineering processes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering management experience, including direct management of senior individual contributors.
• Experience building and scaling engineering organizations delivering mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity at large scale.
• Software engineering background with production systems experience and strong understanding of architecture, technical tradeoffs, and code quality.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and operating large-scale networks and distributed networking systems.
• Strong automation skills and experience accelerating delivery velocity in technically demanding environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate ambiguous goals into executable engineering plans.

Nice to have

• Experience with GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure.
• Deep familiarity with data center or cloud networking, fabric build-out, capacity modeling, or network supply chain.
• Experience with infrastructure capacity forecasting and long-lead hardware planning.
• Experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud company.

Culture & Benefits

• Cash and equity compensation.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles.
• 401(k) plan with a 2% company match for USA employees.
• Flexible paid time off.