Staff Software Engineer — AI Cloud Compute Leader

AI Chopping Block; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

401k Plan with company match

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Compute pillar to define the technical vision for the next-gen GPU/CPU host lifecycle and control plane. You will bridge high-level distributed systems with hardware integration to enable reliable cloud provisioning at massive scale.

The role requires deep knowledge of BIOS/firmware, Linux kernel internals, DPU capabilities, and CSP operations, with hands-on leadership guiding multiple engineers toward

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building compute control plane distributed systems for deploying and lifecycle managing heterogeneous compute platforms.
• Deep expertise in durable execution models and distributed systems used in cloud-service provisioning.
• Basic knowledge of software defined networking for secure, multi-tenant distributed systems.
• Proven track record leading large-scale semiconductor hardware enablement and deployment initiatives.
• Proven experience deploying net-new data-centers into a global compute platform.
• Proficiency in one or more of: C/C++, Rust, Python, Go.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing a highly available GPU/CPU host and instance lifecycle control plane.
• Guide decisions on semiconductor architecture, BIOS/firmware, boot methodologies, and DPU utilization.
• Lead design of multi-tenant security model for compute platform.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across multiple teams.
• Collaborate with product and data center teams to translate requirements into scalable infrastructure capabilities.
• Work with customers to translate requirements into concrete engineering deliverables.
• Set engineering standards and lead design reviews for mission-critical cloud software at scale.

Skills

Distributed systems

Compute control plane

Durable execution models

C/C++

Rust

Python

Go

Linux kernel

Tools

QEMU

KVM

SR-IOV

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Compute pillar to define the technical vision for the next-gen GPU/CPU host lifecycle and control plane. You will bridge high-level distributed systems with hardware integration to enable reliable cloud provisioning at massive scale.

The role requires deep knowledge of BIOS/firmware, Linux kernel internals, DPU capabilities, and CSP operations, with hands-on leadership guiding multiple engineers toward