Senior HPC Platform Hardware Engineer

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers.

Hardware Engineering at Lambda is responsible for building and scaling the physical infrastructure behind the Superintelligence Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the hands-on technical lead for integrating OEM and white-label HPC AI/ML, general purpose compute, storage, and network hardware into Lambda’s HPC platform reference architectures.
• Drive the end-to-end process of new product introduction (NPI) for hardware systems, including system bring-up, documentation, vendor technical engagement, production readiness, and closure of hardware risks.
• Identify, debug, and resolve hardware issues across different hardware engineering domains during hardware NPI; support closure of critical fleet issues that require hardware design, vendor corrective action, or platform configuration changes.
• Partner with HPC architects to translate platform blueprints into concrete hardware selections and system configurations.
• Partner with the supply chain team on new vendor evaluation and QBR/HBR feedback on established vendors.
• Own the hardware platform through NPI, working with PMO to de-risk execution, drive cross-functional closure of hardware readiness issues, and ensure platforms reach production on schedule.
• Collaborate with the quality team and fleet reliability team during hardware NPI and after production to continuously improve product quality and reliability at scale.
• Work cross-functionally with fleet engineering, deployment, operation and datacenter engineering teams to ensure on-time delivery and deployment, quality, compatibility, performance, and scalability of new systems.
• Serve as the technical lead to evaluate, enable, and prototype new hardware in labs.
• Review BOMs to ensure configuration accuracy, component compatibility, and alignment of key commodities and components to Lambda platform requirements.

Requirements

• 5 years of technical lead experience on hardware NPI and deployment for HPC, data center, or cloud infrastructure products, familiar with hardware NPI processes.
• Possess deep knowledge and hands-on experiences in one or many of the following hardware platforms: AI/ML, general compute (x86 and ARM), storage systems, or network switches.
• Broad hardware engineering domain knowledge in one or many of the below areas: electrical, thermal, mechanical, power, signal integrity, safety, compliance, reliability and manufacturing.
• Are comfortable working hands-on in labs to enable and bring up new hardware systems.
• Experiences in identifying, triaging and root causing hardware issues during NPI and at scale in the fleet.
• Experience in PLM systems and BOM structure.
• Collaborate well cross functionally to deliver production-ready hardware solutions.
• Strong ownership and can do attitude, self-starter who feels comfortable working in ambiguity.

Nice to Have

• 10+ years of technical lead experience on hardware NPI and deployment for HPC, data center, or cloud infrastructure products, familiar with hardware NPI processes.
• Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure and accelerated compute hardware (e.g., NVIDIA, AMD, Intel).
• Experience in rack scale server development and liquid cooling designs.
• Exposure to fleet observability, BMC/BIOS/Network configuration and automation.
• Background in performance tuning, benchmarking, and systems validation workflows.
• Can interpret platform-level architecture requirements and select or adapt OEM and white-label solutions to fit.
• Prior experience contributing to reference designs or large-scale infrastructure blueprints.
• Are experienced with vendor-led product development cycles and can drive hardware evaluation, risk mitigation, and feedback into roadmap decisions.

Benefits

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan