Staff HPC Hardware Engineer

Lambda

full-time

Posted on: 8/23/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $349,000 - $581,000 per year

Lead

Cloud

About the role

Serve as the technical lead for integrating OEM and white-label compute, storage, and network hardware into Lambda’s HPC platform reference architectures.
Drive the end-to-end process of new product introduction (NPI) for hardware systems, including evaluation, validation, documentation, and production readiness.
Partner with architects to translate platform blueprints into concrete hardware selections and system configurations.
Work cross-functionally with design, engineering, operations, and vendor engineering teams to ensure compatibility, performance, and scalability of new systems.
Identify and resolve hardware issues across thermal, power, firmware, and mechanical domains during evaluation and bring-up cycles.
Provide technical guidance during vendor engagements and benchmarking of next-generation platforms.

7+ years of experience in hardware integration or systems engineering for HPC, data center, or cloud infrastructure environments.
Deep knowledge of server hardware platforms (x86 and ARM), PCIe accelerators, storage devices, and network fabrics.
Experience with vendor-led product development cycles and ability to drive hardware evaluation, risk mitigation, and feedback into roadmap decisions.
Ability to interpret platform-level architecture requirements and select or adapt OEM solutions.
Comfortable working hands-on in labs with rack-scale deployments, BIOS/firmware tuning, and performance validation.
Strong collaboration across architecture, design, engineering, and vendor teams to deliver production-ready hardware solutions.