Engineering Manager, Fleet Engineering

The posting, as Lambda wrote it

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.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

About the Role

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:

• HPC Deployments — Turns bare metal into production-ready capacity: ensure firmware leveling, system burn-in to shake out early failures, and validation of server performance and correctness, through to the InfiniBand fabric and GPU clusters.
• Fleet Reliability — Day-2 operations across the fleet. Keeps systems healthy and keeps as much of the fleet in service for as much of its useful life as possible.
• Fleet Orchestration / Data — Owns our production source of truth system. Synchronizes data from upstream systems and holds the line on correctness and quality, because everything automated downstream depends on it.
• Fleet Orchestration / Automation — Owns the workflow orchestration system which people use to safely work on fleet systems for workflows that include: locking hosts, running firmware leveling jobs, OS installs, burn-in and validation, and reporting on work in flight and its results.
• Fleet Foundation — Builds the host enablement tooling systems: OS and ZTP switch provisioning, firmware management, out-of-band access, and power management.

The work is highly cross-functional, carries executive visibility, and has a direct impact on Lambda and our customers. Fleet Engineering is at the forefront of delivering on-time, high-quality GPU capacity while driving efficiency at scale.

We are hiring multiple Engineering Managers for the following teams: Fleet Reliability, HPC Deployments, Fleet Foundation, Fleet Orchestration / Automation. This is a single application for all of them: you apply once, we get to know you, and we match you to the team where your strengths land best.

We value diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skills, and we're excited to hear from candidates who bring a unique perspective. If you don't exactly meet this description but believe you may be a good fit, please still apply and help us understand your readiness for this role. Your application is not a waste of our time.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow a distributed team of top-talent engineers responsible for the deployment and operation of production systems infrastructure.
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er physical infrastructure: racks, switches, InfiniBand fabric, power domains.

• Network source-of-truth or DCIM tooling (NetBox or similar), and data quality practice at scale.
• Building Linux distributions, or managing OS customization and imaging.
• Incorporating AI-assisted development tools into engineering workflows — code generation, debugging, test development, documentation.
• Customer awareness, empathy, and diplomacy.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
• We offer 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 that we all actually use

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.