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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. Role Overview Lambda is seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to own the integrated delivery program for new data center builds, from the handoff of a selected site by Real Estate through construction, commissioning, operational readiness, and turnover to Network Deployment. You will be the single source of truth for milestones, risks, and dependencies on your sites, leading internal teams and external partners (GCs, design firms, utilities, and vendors) across site work, utilities, shell, MEP, controls, white space, inspections, and commissioning. Ambiguity is high, timelines are compressed, and the stakes are central to company growth. As we scale beyond our first sites, you will help build the playbooks and governance that let us run many concurrent deployments well. What You’ll Do - Own the integrated schedule from site handoff to Operations; break builds into workstreams with clear owners and milestones, and actively manage the critical path and schedule compression. - Drive the delivery sequence from rack requirements to engineering criteria, design, plan set, permitting, construction, commissioning, and turnover for MW-scale, high-density (including liquid-cooled) capacity. - Lead cross-functional execution with Real Estate (site assumptions, fiber, permit path), Energy and Utilities (interconnection, substation, power delivery), Engineering (requirements in the design and plan set), Procurement (long-lead equipment), Construction Management (GC schedule, field progress, inspections), Commissioning (test plans, acceptance), Operations (staffing, procedures, access), and Security, and Finance (requirements, budget, CapEx), and Legal. - Manage risk and governance: maintain risk registers, dependency logs, decision trackers, and schedule variance reports; surface permitting, utility, design, procurement, sequencing, and commissioning risks early. - Escalate with facts: status, baseline vs. forecast date, variance, impact, owner, mitigation options, and decision date. Lead schedule recovery when milestones slip. - Hold partners accountable to contractual milestones, production and shipping schedules, and commercial commitments while maintaining productive relationships. - Communicate to leadership through program reviews and concise, high-signal status updates. - Deliver clean turnover: define handover criteria and ensure white space, power, cooling, controls, cable pathways, access, and documentation are ready for Network Deployment. - Scale the function: build repeatable playbooks, dashboards, and lessons-learned loops across concurrent deployments. - Travel (~40%) to sites to validate progress and build partner relationships. Scope of Ownership - Owns: site-level delivery program management; the integrated schedule; cross-functional coordination; milestone, risk, dependency, and decision tracking; variance reporting and escalation; Operations readiness. - Partners on, but does not own: site selection and real estate; engineering design authority; construction means and methods and GC management; commissioning authority; procurement commercial strategy; network and services deployment; steady-state operations. You - Have 7+ years in data center delivery, infrastructure or construction program management, mission-critical facilities, or large capital projects. - Have delivered ground-up data centers or comparable mission-critical, industrial, semiconductor, or energy facilities, ideally multi-site on compressed timelines. - Know the full lifecycle: site handoff, permitting, design, utilities, procurement, construction, MEP, controls, commissioning, and turnover. - Run integrated schedules, critical path, dependency logs, and change control with rigor. - Understand technical tradeoffs well enough to spot risks, ask precise questions, and escalate without owning design authority. - Align partners, vendors, and engineering teams around shared deliverables, and bridge physical infrastructure with network and security teams. - Make sound decisions with incomplete information under schedule pressure, and communicate status clearly to executives. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. Nice to Have - Hyperscale, AI/GPU, cloud region, or high-density compute delivery experience. - Utility interconnection, substation, MV/HV power, and liquid cooling experience. - Work with colocation providers, GCs, EPCs, commissioning agents, and permitting authorities. - PMP, construction management, engineering, or project controls certification. Success Measures - Sites reach infrastructure turnover on the committed timeline. - Milestones across engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, procurement, and utilities are visible and accurate. - Critical path risks are escalated early with a clear owner, impact, and mitigation options. - Handoff to Operations meets defined readiness criteria, with no major gaps. Salary Range Information The 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 Lambda - Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast - Our 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 Cove - We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG - Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers - We offer 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 that we all actually use Equal Opportunity Employer 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.

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Infrastructure

24 days ago

Principal Data Center Supply Chain Lead

Lambda · San Jose, California, United States

Pay

$211k–331k

Setting

Remote

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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 San Francisco/San Jose/Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday. What You'll Do - Own the multi-year sourcing and category strategy for the equipment and construction scopes that deliver Lambda's datacenter capacity — long-lead electrical and mechanical equipment, construction, and trade packages - Partner with Construction, Design, and Development teams from site selection and basis-of-design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover, ensuring sourcing strategy and construction schedule are built against the same dates - Own procurement of long-lead datacenter infrastructure equipment — generators, switchgear, transformers, UPS, busway, chillers, air handling units, and cooling distribution — sequencing awards and deliveries to protect the critical path - Lead the contracting strategy for construction delivery: select and negotiate with general contractors, EPCs, design firms, and specialty trades, and choose the commercial model (lump sum, GMP, cost-plus, design-build) that fits each project's risk profile - Serve as Lambda's lead negotiator on the highest-value construction and equipment agreements — setting negotiation strategy, driving consensus on goals and success criteria internally and externally, and partnering with Legal on master agreement terms - Own the owner-furnished equipment strategy — deciding what Lambda buys directly versus through the contractor, and managing the logistics, storage, warranty, and installation interfaces that decision creates - Drive change order discipline across active construction projects: assess claims and schedule impacts against the underlying business case, partner with Construction Management and Legal on resolution, and adjust impact models cross-functionally - Identify systematic, long-term cost reduction opportunities across equipment and construction categories — standardization, volume aggregation across sites, early buys, and design-to-cost — and lead the cross-functional effort to realize them - Build and own strategic partnerships with OEMs, contractors, and trade partners that secure capacity and delivery slots in a constrained market, and drive innovation, prefabrication, and schedule compression - Negotiate and provide strategic oversight of delivery commitments, milestones, and SLAs across equipment vendors and construction partners; own compliance end to end and cascade expectations into the business - Set standards for procurement and contract execution across the construction program, serve as the escalation point on pricing and delivery issues, and deliver executive-level briefings on execution models, anticipated risks, and contingency plans - Partner with stakeholders, contractors, and suppliers to identify threats to schedule, cost, and safety, determine which alternative solutions or policy changes best mitigate them, and drive remediation - Oversee supplier and contractor performance management — including quality and safety deliverables — through audits, site walks, and business reviews, and ensure governance keeps sourcing and contract data current - Define and execute the strategy for industry and ecosystem engagement across the datacenter construction supply base, articulate business cases that earn leadership buy-in, and influence decisions that deploy across the portfolio You - Have deep, hands-on experience across end-to-end supply chain (planning, sourcing, logistics, fulfillment) and strategic sourcing, procurement, or category management — typically 10+ years, or 8+ with a Master's degree - Hold a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Data Analytics, Finance, or a related field, or have equivalent experience - Have owned multi-year category strategies for complex, high-spend, supply-constrained areas with material cost and continuity-of-supply impact - Are recognized as a lead negotiator — you have personally closed the hardest contracts, not directed someone else to - Have set process, policy, or governance standards that an organization adopted, and have driven policy change to mitigate real business risk - Have led through influence at scale: 3+ years of informal or indirect team leadership, coaching senior practitioners, and driving consensus across functions you do not own - Brief and persuade executives comfortably, internally and across the supplier base, and can build the business case that earns the decision - Are fluent with data and use it to anticipate risk, model change-order impact, and defend decisions - Operate well in ambiguity, on compressed timelines, in a supply-constrained market - Have worked shoulder to shoulder with construction teams — general contractors, construction managers, design and engineering firms, and specialty trades - Have led construction contracting and contract administration: selecting delivery models, negotiating GC/EPC and trade agreements, and managing change orders, claims, and closeout through to project completion - Have procured long-lead datacenter or critical-facility infrastructure equipment and sequenced it against a live construction schedule Nice to Have - Category management experience with datacenter infrastructure equipment – Generators, Switchgear, Chillers, Air Handling Units, etc. - Program management experience delivering datacenter capacity at scale, from equipment sourcing and procurement through project execution - Experience negotiating master agreements and resolving contract disputes alongside Legal in a high-growth company - Experience standing up sourcing process, governance, or supplier management practice where little existed - Experience applying AI and automation tooling to supply chain or procurement workflows Salary Range Information The 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 Lambda - Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast - Our 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 Cove - We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG - Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers - We offer 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 that we all actually use Equal Opportunity Employer 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.

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Infrastructure

49 days ago

Staff Data Center Implementation Manager

Lambda · United States

Pay

$191k–255k

Setting

Remote

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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. Travel: 50% , Travel required to various data center sites. What You’ll Do As a Data Center Implementation Manager, you will lead the end-to-end execution of multiple concurrent data center infrastructure projects, spanning Greenfield builds, colocation white space fit-outs, equipment upgrades, and lifecycle replacements. You’ll serve as the single point of contact for all construction activities on your assigned projects, coordinating closely with data center providers, MEP contractors, and internal stakeholders. Your role includes overseeing construction schedules and budgets, managing OFCI equipment procurement and installation, conducting design reviews, and driving alignment across cross-functional teams including electrical, mechanical, low voltage, and network engineering. You’ll also contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, integrating emerging technologies and design innovations into our infrastructure strategy. Key Responsibilities - Project Leadership & Oversight: - Manage the build out of multiple data center projects concurrently, from detailed design to physical build out, including Greenfield construction projects, colocation white space fitouts, equipment upgrades, and end-of-life replacements. Oversee the work of MEP Contractors and Equipment Suppliers during the build out process. - Internal Coordination with SMEs: - Coordinate with internal Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across various disciplines, including electrical, mechanical, and low voltage, to ensure project requirements, technical specifications, and solutions are properly aligned. - Budget & Schedule Coordination: - Work with our Data Center Providers and Contractors to prepare, review, and monitor project schedules, budgets, and forecasts for design and construction expenditures. - OFCI Equipment Management: - Review and evaluate OFCI (Owner-Furnished, Contractor-Installed) equipment submittals, providing recommendations to the Construction Management team and Procurement teams. - Design Reviews: - Participate in page-turn meetings with consultants, providing feedback on designs, Sequence of Operations, Basis of Design documents, and commissioning plans. - Vendor Management: - Assist with RFPs for OFCI Equipment and Data Center Whitespace Fit Outs, evaluation of proposals, selection of vendors, and oversight on alignment with project budgets and schedules. - Project Reporting: - Prepare and deliver detailed project reports to both executive leadership and project teams, track project budgets, schedules, scope objectives, and progress. - Stakeholder Communication: - Provide regular project updates to internal and external stakeholders, both informally and formally. - Design Coordination & Site Visits: - Conduct site visits during construction to review design implementation, assess construction progress, and ensure adherence to design specifications, quality standards, and project requirements. - Cross-functional Collaboration: - Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Network Engineering, Data Center Operations, HPC, Supply Chain and Technical Project Management to ensure alignment with business objectives and project deliverables. Serve as a liaison between internal teams and external contractors or vendors, ensuring clear and effective communication. - Transformation & Design Improvements: - Contribute to internal design team meetings, proposing and exploring new technologies or design concepts to enhance project outcomes. Stay up to date with industry trends and integrate innovative solutions into project designs. Ideal Candidate Profile - Proven experience managing data center construction projects, including Greenfield builds, colocation fit-outs, and infrastructure upgrades. - Strong understanding of MEP systems and construction practices, with hands-on experience coordinating with electrical, mechanical, and low voltage SMEs. - Skilled in managing OFCI equipment procurement, submittal review, and installation oversight. - Effective communicator with the ability to serve as the single point of contact for construction activities and maintain alignment across internal and external stakeholders. - Proficient in tracking and managing project schedules, budgets, and forecasts in collaboration with contractors and data center providers. - Experienced in participating in design reviews and commissioning processes, with the ability to provide meaningful technical feedback. - Comfortable conducting on-site inspections to verify construction quality, design adherence, and progress. - Familiar with vendor RFP processes, proposal evaluation, and managing vendor performance to budget and timeline expectations. - Highly organized, with a strong ability to prepare detailed project reports and communicate updates to both executive leadership and project teams. - Collaborative team player with cross-functional experience working alongside Network Engineering, Data Center Operations, HPC, Supply Chain, and TPM organizations. - Passionate about continuous improvement and staying current with industry trends, technologies, and best practices in data center design and delivery. Top Five Requirements 1. End-to-End Data Center Construction Experience: - Proven track record managing full lifecycle data center projects, colocation fit-outs, and infrastructure upgrades. 2. Strong MEP & OFCI Coordination Skills: - Deep understanding of mechanical, electrical, and low voltage systems, with experience reviewing OFCI submittals and coordinating with design and construction teams. 3. Project Budget & Schedule Management: - Demonstrated ability to manage construction budgets, track project schedules, and work with vendors and providers to meet critical deadlines and cost targets. 4. Cross-Functional Communication & Stakeholder Management: - Excellent interpersonal skills, capable of serving as the single point of contact for construction and aligning internal stakeholders, external contractors, and data center providers. 5. On-Site Construction Oversight & Quality Assurance: - Ability to perform regular site visits to monitor construction progress, validate design implementation, and ensure adherence to project specifications and quality standards. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). - 10+ years of experience managing data center construction or critical infrastructure projects. - Strong knowledge of MEP systems, including coordination with electrical, mechanical, and low voltage trades. - Proficient in reviewing technical design documents, including Basis of Design, Sequence of Operations, and commissioning plans. - Demonstrated experience managing OFCI equipment procurement, submittals, and installation processes. - Strong documentation and writing skills, with the ability to create clear, concise project documents, decision-making documents, and instructional materials. - Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively. - Strong analytical skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions and solve complex problems. - Skilled in construction schedule and budget management, including forecasting, tracking, and reporting. - Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera, Smartsheet) and construction tracking/reporting platforms. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and effectively engage with stakeholders. - Passion for continuous improvement, with a proactive mindset for integrating new technologies and design innovations. Salary Range Information The 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 Lambda - Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast - Our 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 Cove - We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG - Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers - We offer 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 that we all actually use Equal Opportunity Employer 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.

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