Staff Software Engineer (AI Cloud)

Location: Hybrid, with presence in the Bellevue, San Francisco, or San Jose office 4 days per week; Tuesday is the designated work-from-home day.

Salary: $314,000–$419,000 annually in Bellevue or $349,000–$465,000 annually in San Francisco/San Jose.

Company

Lambda provides AI cloud infrastructure for researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers, focused on making large-scale compute broadly accessible.

What you will do

• Design and implement a highly available GPU and CPU host and instance lifecycle control plane.
• Define technical approaches spanning semiconductor architecture, BIOS/UEFI, firmware, boot methodologies, and DPU utilization.
• Design secure multi-tenant compute platform capabilities.
• Lead technical direction, mentorship, design reviews, and engineering standards across multiple teams.
• Collaborate with product, data center organizations, and customers to turn technical requirements into scalable infrastructure deliverables.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building resilient distributed systems for deploying and managing heterogeneous compute platforms in data centers.
• Deep expertise in durable execution models and distributed systems for cloud-service provisioning.
• Experience leading semiconductor hardware enablement and deploying new data centers into a global compute platform.
• Knowledge of software-defined networking fundamentals and secure multi-tenant systems.
• Proficiency in one or more of C, C++, Rust, Python, or Go.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of NVIDIA AI Factory components and software, including GPU/CPU hosts, SuperNICs, ConnectX, BlueField DPUs, DOCA, and CUDA.
• Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, device drivers, KVM, QEMU, SR-IOV, DPDK, or SPDK.
• Experience with cloud-provider Kubernetes offerings, InfiniBand, RoCE, or NVMe-oF.

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.