Network Infrastructure Delivery Manager
San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · Bellevue · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Fremont St) · Bellevue
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
About the role
- You will lead network implementation across data centers, network edges, points of presence and backbone routes, from design planning through acceptance and handover.
- Your work will include new deployments, equipment refreshes, lab builds, proofs of concept and new product introductions.
- You will help Engineering turn approved designs into working infrastructure, resolve delivery problems and verify that what was contracted and approved was delivered to spec and on schedule.
Responsibilities
- Support Engineering during design planning to check supplier lead times, equipment availability and site readiness, and keep implementation plans aligned as designs change.
- Drive deployments, refreshes, end-of-life replacements, labs and special projects, coordinating Engineering, Product, HPC, Solutions Engineering and account technical teams.
- Coordinate fiber paths outside and inside facilities, site access, optics and local technicians with Data Center Operations, and place and track approved cross-connect orders.
- Maintain schedules, dependencies and recovery plans, keeping the project management office informed of network milestones and their impact on overall deployments.
- Own implementation drawings for the network edge, working with Network Engineering on the design plan and bringing technical changes to Engineering for approval.
- Own contracted circuit delivery through activation, visit sites, coordinate physical and logical validation, and resolve gaps against the approved design.
- Build close out packages with as-built drawings, meet-me-room records, test results, approvals, service records and support contacts for Operations.
- Manage service changes, upgrades, disconnections and carrier escalations with Engineering and Operations, following supplier issues through restoration and documented root cause.
- Provide Supply Chain with service dates and records for billing corrections or credits, obtaining Supply Chain approval before proceeding with new commercial terms.
- Develop implementation runbooks, playbooks and acceptance checklists, administer network delivery tools and supplier portals, and raise risks early to track improvements through completion.
Requirements
- Experience leading network implementation in data centers, at the network edge or across carrier networks, including changes to live infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with fiber routes, cross-connects, equipment installation and physical site readiness.
- Ability to read network designs, review physical and logical test results, and identify gaps between approved scope and delivered work.
- Experience coordinating engineers, site teams and suppliers through concurrent projects, including stalled deliveries and service escalations.
- Working knowledge of optical transport, lit services, wavelengths and dark fiber, including acceptance requirements.
- Experience maintaining close out packages and drawings, reporting risks and resolving issues.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience delivering labs, proofs of concept, new products or equipment refreshes.
- Ability to interpret optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) traces.
- Experience administering NetBox, Jira or carrier portals.
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
Workplace
- Requires presence in the San Francisco or Bellevue office location 4 days per week
- Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday
Skills
- NetBox
- Jira
- Carrier Portals
- Optical Time-domain Reflectometer (OTDR)
