Senior HPC Compute Architect for AI Cloud

Socket.dev; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

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. This position requires presence in our San Jose or San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience architecting large-scale GPU HPC or cloud compute platforms.
• Deep knowledge of CPU/GPU architectures, memory hierarchies and accelerator topologies.
• Experience with high-bandwidth, low-latency fabrics (NVLink, InfiniBand, RoCE).
• Strong performance tuning, resource scheduling, thermal and power optimization, and compute lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Architect and define scalable compute platforms optimized for AI/ML, simulation and high-throughput workloads.
• Develop compute system standards and design patterns for consistency, performance and maintainability.
• Evaluate CPU, GPU and accelerator technologies and make trade-off decisions for density, power and cost.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to map workloads to compute capabilities across bare metal and cloud deployments.
• Lead platform introductions, guiding validation and performance characterization.
• Mentor engineers on compute performance tuning and architectural decisions.

Skills

GPU HPC

CPU/GPU architectures

high-bandwidth fabrics

Performance tuning

Compute lifecycle management

OS & orchestration

NVLink InfiniBand RoCE

Tools

Slurm

Kubernetes

GPU virtualization

Job 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. If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us. This position requires presence in our San Jose or San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s