Senior HPC Platform Hardware Engineer at Lambda
San Jose, CA
$255,000–$340,000
Jul 20, 2026
San Jose, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on technical lead role focused on introducing new HPC and AI/ML hardware into a large-scale cloud infrastructure platform. Day-to-day work covers system bring-up, hardware debugging, BOM review, vendor engagement, and cross-functional coordination to move compute, storage, and networking hardware from prototype through production readiness. Best suited to someone with deep data center or cloud hardware NPI experience across domains such as thermal, electrical, or mechanical engineering.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $119,144 (middle half $81,115–$160,963).
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Why we read it this way (8)
The job posting explicitly requires 4 days/week on-site in San Jose; the caller has instructed this be treated as fully remote and no metro be inferred — this overrides the posting's stated location requirement.
No SOC code precisely covers a hardware NPI / data-center hardware engineering role. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is the closest fit; 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is the runner-up given the infrastructure operations overlap, though neither is a perfect match for a hands-on hardware bring-up lead.
The posting states a salary range exists but does not publish the figures ('has been set based on market data'), so no compensation numbers are extracted.
Hardware domain knowledge areas (electrical, thermal, mechanical, power, signal integrity, safety, compliance, reliability, manufacturing) are engineering disciplines rather than named tools or technologies and are therefore not emitted as discrete skills.
'BOM review' and 'PLM systems' are listed in the required qualifications section and are retained as concrete named work artifacts/tool categories despite being somewhat generic — they represent real gateable experience areas called out explicitly by the posting.
The 10+ years figure appears only under 'Nice to Have'; the hard minimum of 5 years from the required section is used for total experience.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): rack-scale server design, BIOS configuration.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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