Staff Mechanical Engineer
Lambda Labs · San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · San Jose Office (First St)
CHECKED 3H AGO
Infrastructureremotestaff$349k–$465k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own mechanical design standards for large-scale AI data centers.
- Design central plants and direct-to-chip liquid-cooling infrastructure.
- Translate GPU cluster thermal needs into facility cooling requirements.
What they offer
- Equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Wellness and commuter stipends
- 401k plan with 2% company match
- Flexible paid time off
Ideal candidate
Mechanical engineer with mission-critical cooling background who cares about efficiency, reliability, and scale and enjoys partnering across engineering, construction, and operations to deliver AI data centers.
Requirements
- Experience designing mechanical systems for data centers, mission-critical facilities, central plants, or large industrial environments
- Understand hydronic systems, heat transfer, chilled-water systems, heat rejection, pumping, filtration, and water treatment
- Can develop and review P&IDs, mechanical layouts, equipment schedules, specifications, and calculations
- Understand mechanical redundancy, failure domains, maintainability, and operational requirements
- Can evaluate system performance across changing weather conditions and compute loads
- Understand applicable mechanical, plumbing, energy, and safety codes and standards
- Can balance cooling performance, efficiency, water consumption, reliability, cost, and schedule
- Communicate clearly across engineering, construction, operations, vendors, and executives
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent practical experience
- remote policy
- Work from home on Tuesdays, in office 4 days per week
Lab profile
About Lambda Labs
The Superintelligence Cloud delivering GPU compute infrastructure for AI researchers and enterprises.
What they build
- GPU cloud infrastructure
- On-demand GPU instances
- Managed Kubernetes for AI workloads
Known for
- AI cloud infrastructure at scale
- HPC platform and hardware engineering
- Data center operations and networking
Key facts
- Serves tens of thousands of customers
- Offices in San Francisco, San Jose and Bellevue
- Data center in Quebec City, Canada