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Lambda

Cloud-based GPU services for AI training

Senior Data Center Operations Systems Engineer

Full-Time
CA$83.2k - CA$124.8k/yr+ Equity compensation
Senior
Québec City, QC, Canada
In PersonOn-site in the Quebec City data center five days per week; shift work. Travel for new data center openings as needed.
IT OperationsSystem Administration

About the job

Requirements
  • Have strong past experience with critical infrastructure systems supporting data centers, such as power distribution, airflow management, environmental monitoring, capacity planning, data center infrastructure management software, structured cabling, and cable management.
  • Be familiar with carrier direct internet access circuit testing and turn-ups, fiber testing, and troubleshooting.
  • Have basic knowledge of cable optics and their different uses.
  • Have a solid understanding of single- and three-phase power theories.
  • Understand power distribution unit balancing and why it is important.
  • Be familiar with multiple cable media types and their uses.
  • Know cold-aisle and hot-aisle containment.
  • Have a solid understanding of server hardware and the boot process.
  • Be able to structure, collaborate on, and iteratively improve complex maintenance methods of procedure.
  • Be willing to travel as needed for the bring-up of new data center locations.
Responsibilities
  • Ensure new server, storage, and network infrastructure is properly racked, labeled, cabled, and configured.
  • Troubleshoot hardware and software issues in advanced GPU and networking systems.
  • Document and update data center layouts and network topology in data center infrastructure management software.
  • Work with supply chain and manufacturing teams to ensure timely system deployment and project plans for large-scale deployments.
  • Manage a parts depot inventory and track equipment through the delivery, storage, staging, deployment, and handoff process in each data center.
  • Partner with hardware support teams to resolve data center hardware incidents involving higher-level troubleshooting, report findings, and disseminate solutions across the operations organization.
  • Work with the return merchandise authorization team to ensure faulty parts are returned and replacements are ordered.
  • Follow installation standards and documentation for placement, labeling, and cabling to drive consistency and discoverability across data centers.
  • Work with product management, support, and other teams to align operational capabilities with company goals.
  • Translate business priorities into technical and operational requirements.
  • Support cross-functional projects where infrastructure plays a critical role.
Desired Qualifications
  • Have 3 or more years of experience with critical infrastructure systems supporting data centers, such as power distribution, airflow management, environmental monitoring, capacity planning, data center infrastructure management software, structured cabling, and cable management.
  • Have experience with or knowledge of network topology, configurations, and 400-gigabit InfiniBand architectures.
  • Have experience with or knowledge of DDP or SCM cluster storage systems.
  • Have 3 or more years of experience working with and reporting from ticketing systems such as Jira and Zendesk.
  • Have advanced experience with Linux administration.
  • Have experience with high-performance computing GPU systems, air- or water-cooled, especially NVIDIA NVL72.

About the company

Lambda Labs provides cloud-based GPU services for AI training and inference. Its AI Developer Cloud runs on NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper hardware to train large language models and generative AI, offering on-demand and reserved GPUs billed by the hour (for example, $1.99/hour for H100). It differentiates itself through competitive pricing, high availability, and an integrated ML stack with Lambda Stack for easy installation of PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, cuDNN, and NVIDIA drivers, plus Lambda Echelon for owning infrastructure with hosting and support. Its goal is to make scalable AI development and deployment affordable by providing flexible GPU access, reliable hosting, and streamlined software deployment for teams working with large models.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$9.1B

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • October 1, 2026, Lambda closed $1 billion fixed-rate debt for contracted deployments.
  • August 31, 2026 Reuters reported Anthropic's $35 billion Lambda deal for Texas capacity.
  • May 2026 leadership changes installed Michel Combes and John Donovan for scale execution.

What critics are saying

  • Lambda's growth now depends on Nvidia chip allocation and pricing, tightening margins immediately.
  • October 1 financing secures three deployments; one canceled off-take strains highly levered infrastructure economics.
  • A failed hyperscale customer ramp, especially Anthropic, threatens refinancing and a pre-IPO exit.

What makes Lambda unique

  • Lambda pairs bare-metal GPU clouds with on-prem hardware and software, simplifying full-stack AI deployment.
  • At GTC 2026, Lambda announced early Vera Rubin NVL72 bare-metal instances for H2 2026.
  • Lambda runs production-scale infrastructure, including Quantum-X InfiniBand Photonics on 10,000-GPU GB300 clusters.

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Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Unlimited Paid Time Off

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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The Wall Street Journal
Oct 6th, 2026
Exclusive | AI-Computing Startup Lambda Is Raising $4 Billion in Final Round Before Planned IPO

The Nvidia-backed company is targeting an IPO in 2027.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 1st, 2026
Anthropic signs $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for Texas data centre

Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud-computing agreement with Nvidia-backed Lambda, the Wall Street Journal reported. The deal gives Anthropic access to computing capacity from a Texas data centre being developed by Hut 8, a Bitcoin miner turned data centre operator. Nvidia secured capacity at the facility, whilst Lambda will deploy Nvidia chips and provide computing resources to Anthropic. The arrangement's financial terms remain unclear. Anthropic's annualised revenue run rate reportedly reached $65 billion by end-July. The structure highlights Nvidia's expanding role beyond selling AI chips. Anthropic previously agreed to spend $45 billion over six years with another Nvidia-backed provider, Nscale. In April, Amazon announced Anthropic plans to spend over $100 billion on AWS technology over the next decade.

Associated Press
Aug 27th, 2026
Lambda closes $926M term loan B to fund GPU infrastructure for investment-grade customer

Lambda has closed a $926 million senior secured term loan B facility to fund GPU infrastructure for an investment-grade customer. The facility, priced at SOFR + 3.00% and issued at 99.5% of principal, received a Baa2 rating from Moody's. This marks Lambda's first large-scale private cloud GPU asset-backed financing and the first broadly syndicated, investment-grade-rated term loan B by a private neocloud. The facility matures on 31 December 2030 and is secured by the GPU servers and related infrastructure it funds. The closing follows Lambda's $1 billion senior secured credit facility announced in May 2026. Morgan Stanley acted as lead left arranger, bookrunner, and administrative agent, with MUFG serving as joint bookrunner.

The Next Web
Aug 25th, 2026
Lambda is raising up to $3bn before an IPO, months after borrowing $917m for chips

Nvidia-backed Lambda is in talks for up to $3bn in pre-IPO financing at a valuation of $12bn or more, ahead of a listing next year.

AD HOC NEWS
Aug 11th, 2026
Nvidia arranges $500B AI infrastructure credit, raising Ouroboros risk concerns over chipmaker-lender overlap

Nvidia is arranging over $500 billion in AI infrastructure credit alongside Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR, raising concerns about circular financing. The chipmaker may secure up to $125 billion of the total itself. A recent $917 million credit facility with Lambda demonstrates how the system works: customers lacking liquidity can access capital arranged through the consortium to purchase Nvidia hardware. CEO Jensen Huang aims to transform the company's graphics chips into an "investable asset class". Critics warn of an "Ouroboros dilemma" — when manufacturers arrange loans for customers to buy their own products, creating a closed loop vulnerable to collapse if actual AI service demand lags infrastructure buildout. Nvidia shares closed at €188.50 on Monday, down 2.67%. The company reports second-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings on 26 August.