Senior Optical Engineering Manager (AI)

Location: Dublin, Ireland; remote workplace

Salary: €152K–€190K annual salary

Company

Lambda is an AI cloud infrastructure company serving AI researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers with GPU cloud computing.

What you will do

• Own optical networking planning, delivery, operation, and capacity landing ahead of demand.
• Build and lead the optical engineering organization, including hiring, development, retention, and organizational design.
• Set the multi-year strategy for optical capacity automation and convert manual processes into durable software pipelines.
• Establish operational standards for planning, reviewing, shipping, measuring, and learning from capacity work and incidents.
• Partner with Interconnect, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Product, Finance, Principal Engineers, technical leadership, customers, and partners.
• Represent technical direction to senior leadership and contribute to company-wide engineering process improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of optical engineering management experience.
• Proven experience building and scaling engineering organizations delivering mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity serving millions of users.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and operating large-scale networks.
• Strong automation skills and a record of accelerating business delivery velocity at large scale.
• Experience building high-performing teams in fast-moving, technically demanding environments.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business and product goals into clear priorities and executable engineering plans.
• Strong judgment about when to work deeply on technical issues, delegate, or escalate.
• Successful project and product delivery in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the use of high-quality written artifacts for decision-making and approvals.

Nice to have

• Experience with GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environments.
• Familiarity with large-scale data center or cloud networking, including fabric build-out, capacity modelling, or network supply chain.
• Experience with infrastructure capacity forecasting and long-lead hardware planning.
• Prior experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud company.

Culture & Benefits

• Data-driven, automation-first, high-velocity engineering environment.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Generous cash and equity compensation.
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles.
• 401(k) plan with a 2% company match for USA employees.
• Flexible paid time off plan.