Lambda
Data Center Standards Architect
San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
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About the role
- Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
- This role is ideal for someone who has led engineering teams or large technical programs and now wants to operate as a high-leverage individual contributor shaping how a fast-growing infrastructure organization works.
- Salary Range Information The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors.
Responsibilities
- Define and own Lambda's data center engineering standards for high-density AI and GPU infrastructure environments.
- Create repeatable reference architectures, design patterns, technical specifications, and deployment standards that improve speed, quality, reliability, and consistency across data center builds.
- Develop the engineering "operating system" for data center scale, including standards libraries, design review processes, decision records, quality gates, commissioning criteria, acceptance checklists, exception processes, and operational handoff frameworks.
- Lead cross-functional architecture reviews for new data center designs, expansions, retrofits, and infrastructure programs.
- Identify organizational bottlenecks and design systems, tools, and workflows that reduce ambiguity, improve accountability, and help teams execute at scale.
- Build governance mechanisms for standards adoption, including exception management, risk reviews, lifecycle ownership, metrics, and continuous improvement loops.
- Act as a technical advisor to senior engineering and infrastructure leadership on data center strategy, design tradeoffs, resiliency, operational risk, and scalability.
- Mentor engineers and technical leaders across the organization by raising the bar for systems thinking, documentation, design rigor, and operational excellence.
- Communicate clearly through written standards, technical narratives, architecture diagrams, design reviews, and executive-level recommendations.
- Are energized by building the systems that allow other engineers and operators to move faster and make better decisions.
Requirements
- Have experience designing or scaling standards, processes, tools, or governance systems across a complex engineering organization.
- Have a track record of raising the technical bar for teams through better processes, better documentation, better decision-making frameworks, and better engineering discipline.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-density compute environments, liquid cooling, advanced thermal management, or next-generation data center design.
- Familiarity with DCIM, BMS, EPMS, telemetry platforms, infrastructure observability, or workflow automation tools.
- Experience creating internal platforms, tooling, dashboards, or knowledge systems that help engineering organizations scale.
- Experience leading technical governance forums, architecture review boards, standards councils, or large-scale engineering transformation programs.
- Background in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, infrastructure architecture, or a related field.
Skills
- Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
- One person, one GPU.
Compensation
- 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.
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
Benefits
- We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Company info
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Equal opportunity
- 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.
- Equal Opportunity Employer
Visa & Work Authorization
- ational 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
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