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Staff Software Engineer - Compute
Software Engineer
• Principal
• Remote
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Bellevue Office, EU/EMEA
Senior software engineering role driving the compute control plane for Lambda's GPU and CPU cloud infrastructure, spanning the stack from BIOS/firmware to large-scale distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- ▹Design a highly available GPU/CPU host and instance lifecycle control plane
- ▹Guide technical decisions on BIOS/firmware, boot methodology and DPU utilization
- ▹Support design of the multi-tenant security model
- ▹Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers
- ▹Collaborate with product and data center teams to scale infrastructure
- ▹Lead design reviews for mission-critical cloud software
Requirements
- ▹10+ years of experience with distributed compute control plane systems
- ▹Deep expertise in durable execution models and distributed systems
- ▹Basic knowledge of software-defined networking fundamentals
- ▹Track record leading large-scale semiconductor hardware enablement
- ▹Experience deploying net-new data centers into a global compute platform
- ▹Proficiency in C/C++, Rust, Python or Go
Nice to have
- ▹Knowledge of Nvidia's AI Factory architecture
Soft skills
Leading cross-functional initiativesTranslating vague customer requirements into concrete engineering deliverables
About the company
Lambda, "The Superintelligence Cloud," provides AI cloud infrastructure to researchers and enterprises, offering GPU-based compute at scale.
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