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Engineering Manager, Fleet Engineering

Lambda San Francisco, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$297K - $440K per year

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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.

Fleet Engineering owns the full lifecycle of Lambda's production systems infrastructure , new product introduction, deployment, operation, and reliability of our GPU fleet. We enable the building and running of that infrastructure with speed, ease, and quality.

The Fleet Engineering teams focus on:

  • HPC Deployments: Turning bare metal into production-ready capacity
  • Fleet Reliability: Day-2 operations across the fleet
  • Fleet Orchestration / Data: Owning our production source of truth system
  • Fleet Orchestration / Automation: Owning the workflow orchestration system
  • Fleet Foundation: Building the host enablement tooling systems

We are hiring multiple Engineering Managers for the following teams: Fleet Reliability, HPC Deployments, Fleet Foundation, Fleet Orchestration / Automation.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and grow a distributed team of top-talent engineers
  • Work cross-functionally to deliver projects and deployments on time
  • Identify opportunities for efficiency gains
  • Give stakeholders clear visibility into project progress, risks, and outcomes
  • Participate in qualification efforts for new technologies
  • Drive outcomes by managing staff allocation, project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Hold regular 1:1s, give constructive feedback, and support career development for your team
  • Contribute to reliability through participation in our Incident Management and Review programs

Requirements:

  • 3+ years leading or managing engineers in AI/ML infrastructure or another large-scale compute environment
  • Experience owning production systems with real SLAs
  • Ability to work confidently in Linux and debug across the OS, hardware, and networking layers
  • Leadership experience in technical design on medium-to-large efforts
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting instincts
  • Experience working at the intersection of hardware, software, and physical datacenter builds

Nice to Have:

  • Depth in Linux systems administration, TCP/IP networking, automation, and scripting
  • Bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management
  • Strong coding ability in at least one language
  • Experience with GPU acceleration, virtualization, cloud computing, and datacenter physical infrastructure

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

Skills

Nice to have

  • Linux systems administration
  • bare metal provisioning
  • strong coding ability
  • datacenter physical infrastructure

Ready to apply?

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