Network Planning & Design Architect

Lambda; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness and commuter stipends

401k Plan with 2% company match

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is hiring for a technical individual contributor role on the Network Planning and Delivery team in a hybrid in‑office setting (SF or Bellevue). You will design the connectivity behind Lambda’s data centers and interconnects, collaborating with carrier engineers and equipment partners to meet latency, capacity and resilience requirements.

You’ll translate requirements into routes and capacity plans, drive designs through Network Engineering approval, and guide

Qualifications

• Experience designing or developing carrier, cloud or data center connectivity.
• Practical knowledge of dark fiber, wavelength services, optical transport and internet interconnection.
• Ability to assess physical route diversity, equipment dependencies and capacity needs beyond what a route map shows.
• Experience working directly with carrier engineers, colocation providers or equipment suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Develop physical and optical connectivity designs for data centers, points of presence, backbone routes and customer interconnects.
• Translate customer and network requirements into routes, capacity plans, equipment needs and acceptance criteria, within Network Engineering and HPC architecture.
• Compare dark fiber, wavelength, internet transit and interconnection options on latency, resilience, total cost, delivery time and room for expansion.
• Validate route diversity and identify shared conduits, building entrances, fiber extensions and other dependencies that could compromise a design.
• Work with carrier engineering teams to develop routes, extend reach and resolve coverage, site access or capacity constraints.
• Evaluate new and existing suppliers, gather technical proposals and budgetary quotes, and recommend options with clear tradeoffs.
• Work with optical and network equipment partners on alternatives when fiber availability, equipment lead times or cost put a build at risk.
• Give Supply Chain a defined technical scope for negotiations and contracting, including supplier assumptions and unresolved risks.

Skills

Carrier connectivity design

Data center networking

Route planning

Supplier collaboration

Network engineering

Capacity planning

Tools

Route mapping tools

Capacity planning tools

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is hiring for a technical individual contributor role on the Network Planning and Delivery team in a hybrid in‑office setting (SF or Bellevue). You will design the connectivity behind Lambda’s data centers and interconnects, collaborating with carrier engineers and equipment partners to meet latency, capacity and resilience requirements.

You’ll translate requirements into routes and capacity plans, drive designs through Network Engineering approval, and guide