Full time

Exoscale; Lausanne; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomous work

Collaborative culture

Modern office

Training opportunities

Job summary

Exoscale, headquartered in Lausanne, is hiring a Hardware Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure hardware. You will work across hardware development, deployment, and operation to ensure efficiency, reliability, and performance of data center systems.

The role involves designing server and storage chassis, evaluating new technologies, and driving hardware lifecycle management in a distributed team across Europe.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of server architectures and memory/I/O.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and hardware management tools.
• Familiarity with Terraform and Ansible for IaC.
• Experience with Open Compute Project and data center hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design and specify hardware for cloud data centers and servers.
• Evaluate new hardware technologies and vendors at scale.
• Develop hardware standards and best practices.
• Plan hardware refresh cycles and capacity expansion.
• Monitor hardware performance and reliability metrics.

Skills

x86/ARM server architectures

Linux/Unix

Open Compute Project

Networking fundamentals

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ans

Tools

IPMI

BMC

Public cloud hardware

Job description

Lausanne, Switzerland | Posted on 08/03/2026

• Date Opened 08/03/2026
• Job Type Full time
• Work Experience 1-3 years

Job Description

Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.

With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business.

Join a dynamic working environment with a multi-cultural cutting-edge team distributed across Europe. With headquarters based in Lausanne, Exoscale

strives to create an environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants. As part of its ongoing efforts to grow its infrastructure footprint Exoscale is hiring a Hardware Engineer.

Job purpose:

The Hardware engineer plays a critical role in designing, deploying, and maintaining the physical infrastructure that powers our cloud services. The engineering team at Exoscale works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support. The Hardware Engineer works at the intersection of hardware and software. With an expanding customer base and new products to further advance Exoscale's product portfolio, Hardware Engineers ensures our data centers operate with maximum efficiency, reliability, and performance. As users of Exoscale itself,

Hardware Engineers also take active part in improving products This position focuses on specifying, designing and qualifying hardware for cloud data centers, including developping standards and hardware life cyle management.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:

• Design and specify hypervisor and storage chassis and servers, as well as hardware configurations.
  
• Evaluate and qualify new hardware technologies and vendors for deployment at scale.
  
• Develop hardware standards and best practices.
  
• Plan and execute hardware refresh cycles and participate in capacity expansions.
  
• Analyze hardware utilization and performance data to optimize configurations
  
• Monitor hardware performance, reliability metrics, and failure rates across the fleet.
  
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware issues in production environments
  
• Coordinate with vendors, providers and manufacturers.
  
• Drive cost optimization initiatives through hardware lifecycle management.
  
• Collaborate with site reliability and software engineers to optimize hardware-software integration.
  
• Research emerging technologies and technology watch.
  
• Strong understanding of x86/ARM server architectures, memory hierarchies, and I/O systems.
  
• Experience working in large scale data center environments.
  
• Experience with hardware automation and monitoring tools.
  
• Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems and hardware management tools (IPMI, BMC, etc.)
  
• Experience with Open Compute Project.
  
• Understanding of power and cooling systems in data centers, including liquid cooling.
  
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, routing, and switching>
  
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
  
• Are curious, autonomous and embrace learning new things everyday.
  
• Are team players and are comfortable working in a distributed team.
  
• Have good English communication skills, written and spoken.
  

What we offer:

• Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create and challenge.
  
• Collaborative culture, working alongside talented engineers in a supportive environment.
  
• Modern working atmosphere and centrally located office with great public transport connection.
  
• Team events as well as training and further education.
  

Candidates who are not familiar with all the topics above but willing to learn are encouraged to apply.

We are looking forward to your application!