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About the Role
Design the connectivity for Lambda’s next data center, backbone route, and customer interconnect. You will collaborate with carrier engineers and equipment partners to translate capacity, latency, and resilience requirements into buildable infrastructure. Your decisions will directly impact the growth of AI training and inference systems by influencing network routes, carrier reach, and future capacity.
Responsibilities
- Develop physical and optical connectivity designs for data centers, points of presence, backbone routes, and customer interconnects.
- Translate customer and network requirements into routes, capacity plans, equipment needs, and acceptance criteria.
- Compare dark fiber, wavelength, internet transit, and interconnection options based on latency, resilience, total cost, delivery time, and expansion potential.
- Validate route diversity and identify dependencies that could compromise a design.
- Work with carrier engineering teams to develop routes, extend reach, and resolve constraints.
- Evaluate suppliers, gather technical proposals and quotes, and recommend options with clear tradeoffs.
- Work with optical and network equipment partners to find alternatives when fiber availability, equipment lead times, or cost pose risks.
- Provide Supply Chain with a defined technical scope for negotiations and contracting.
- Produce a complete design package for Network Engineering approval.
- Work with Delivery on the build schedule, dependencies, and acceptance requirements.
- Resolve design questions during delivery and manage revisions.
- Collaborate with Site Selection and network planning on carrier access, backbone capacity, and future expansion.
- Incorporate lessons from completed projects into reusable designs and standards.
Requirements
- Experience designing or developing carrier, cloud, or data center connectivity, with designs that have progressed from requirements into delivery.
- Practical knowledge of dark fiber, wavelength services, optical transport, and internet interconnection.
- Ability to assess physical route diversity, equipment dependencies, and capacity needs beyond route maps.
- Experience working directly with carrier engineers, colocation providers, or equipment suppliers to solve design constraints.
- Ability to compare supplier options on technical fit, delivery risk, and total cost, and explain recommendations.
- Clear design documentation that engineering reviewers and delivery teams can use.
Skills
- Network Planning
- Network Delivery
- Optical Connectivity Design
- Data Center Connectivity
- Backbone Route Design
- Customer Interconnect Design
- Carrier Engineering Collaboration
- Equipment Partner Collaboration
- Capacity Planning
- Latency Analysis
- Resilience Planning
- Dark Fiber
- Wavelength Services
- Optical Transport
- Internet Interconnection
- Route Diversity Assessment
- Supplier Evaluation
- Technical Proposal Analysis
- Cost Analysis
- Design Documentation
- Long-haul Optical Networks (Nice to Have)
- DWDM Systems (Nice to Have)
- Private Cloud Connectivity (Nice to Have)
- Internet Exchanges (Nice to Have)
- Large Compute Deployments (Nice to Have)
- Carrier Solutions Engineering (Nice to Have)
- Route Mapping Tools (Nice to Have)
- Capacity Planning Tools (Nice to Have)
Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Bellevue, WA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Benefits
- Generous cash & equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
- Flexible paid time off plan
About the Company
- Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure, serving tens of thousands of customers ranging from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers.
- Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
- Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees and growing fast.
- Investors include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove.
- Has research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG.
- Publicly available values: https://lambda.ai/careers
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.