Director, Network Capacity Automation

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range 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. One person, one GPU.If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.Note: This position requires presence in our Bellevue or San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range 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. One person, one GPU.Our vision is bold and is not an incremental exercise. We will continually re-evaluate and reinvent our current ways of working and the automation underneath all of it, while operating the existing network flawlessly for all customer workloads.Lambda has 10x'd over the last three years, and the network engineering organization is scaling to match. We're looking for a Director of Network Capacity Automation to lead one or more teams building the software that enables us to plan and deliver network capacity ahead of customer demand. This capacity is critical to ensure a flawless customer connectivity experience to our GPU cloud infrastructure. We're looking for a Director to own that outcome end to end — and to build the organization that delivers it. You'll hire and grow a talented team of software and network proficient engineers, shape team culture, and partner with technical leadership to deliver the mechanisms needed to stay ahead of our scale ambitions.This role will report to the VP of Cloud and AI Networking, working alongside a highly capable and passionate team of engineers.If you'd like to join a great team of customer obsessed engineers building the world's best AI cloud, come join us.What You'll DoOwn network capacity end to end — planning, delivery, turn-up and lifecycle — and be accountable for capacity landing ahead of demandBuild and lead the organization that delivers it: hire, develop and retain engineers and the leaders who manage them, and design the team structure as the org growsSet the multi-year technical strategy for capacity automation to ensure it continually scalesConvert manual process into durable software — the goal is a capacity pipeline that runs without heroics, not a better-organised set of runbooksOwn the operational bar for your org: how capacity work is planned, reviewed, shipped, measured and learned from when it goes wrongManage through leads and senior ICs, developing both — regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship of meaningful workPartner and support our Interconnect team who negotiate, acquire and coordinate on external connectivityPartner with Principal Engineers and technical leadership to maintain a high engineering bar across design, code quality and operational reliabilityPartner with Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Product and Finance to align capacity roadmaps, forecast demand and manage long-lead dependenciesRepresent your org's work and technical direction to senior leadership, and to enterprise customers and partners where appropriateContribute to org-wide engineering process improvements — how we plan, how we ship, how we learn from incidentsYouHave 8+ years of engineering management experience, including directly managing senior individual contributorsProven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations that deliver mission-critical, high-performance cloud connectivity serving millions of usersHave a software engineering background — you've shipped production systems and can engage credibly on architecture, technical tradeoffs, and code qualityFoster a data driven, automation first, high velocity organizationFamiliarity designing, building, scaling and operating large-scale networksFamiliarity with how to build distributed systems and large-scale networking servicesStrong automation skills and track record accelerating a business delivery velocity on a large scaleHave a track record of building high-performing teams in fast-moving, technically demanding environmentsAre skilled at translating ambiguous business and product goals into clear team priorities and executable engineering plansShow strong judgment about when to go deep technically, when to delegate, and when to escalateTrack record of successful project and product delivery in fast-paced, high-pressure environmentsExcellent communicator both written and verbal. You leverage high quality written artifacts to inform high quality decision making and get approval on problems and solution opportunitiesNice to HaveExperience in GPU cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure environmentsDeep familiarity with large-scale data center or cloud networking — fabric build-out, capacity modelling, or network supply chainExperience with infrastructure capacity forecasting and long-lead hardware planningPrior experience at a high-growth infrastructure or cloud companySalary Range InformationThe 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.About LambdaFounded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fastOur investors notably 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 CoveWe have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOGOur values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careersWe offer generous cash & equity compensationHealth, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependentsWellness and commuter stipends for select roles401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually useEqual Opportunity EmployerLambda 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.Compensation Range: $399K - $590K