Lambda
lambda.ai
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$89M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$14.6M
Venture round · Feb 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
249
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Aug 2025
Hiring now
85
+25 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Airstreet, Alumni Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
32 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
37/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2026
Formerly We at Lambda, Inc. (lambdal.com)
Aug 12
Took on debt financing $926M
2025
Team shrank to 249 was 315 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Feb 14, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $14.6M · SEC Form D
Aug 5, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $74.4M · SEC Form D
2012
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.33%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt Financing | Aug 2026 | $926M | — | datacenterdynamics.com |
| Venture round | Feb 2024 | $14.6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Aug 2020 | $74.4M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Lambda Inc. | its site |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Benhamin NelsonExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Austen AllredExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Ximena FloresExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Airstreet 
Alumni Ventures 
G Squared 
Link Ventures 
Mercato Partners 
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How Lambda hires
Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
45 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
57%
Reposted roles
0%
Lambda scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 57% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 45 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Founded in 2012 by Stephen Balaban and Michael Balaban, Lambda is an artificial intelligence compute and deep learning infrastructure provider headquartered in San Jose, California. The company specializes in cloud-based GPU instances, multi-node GPU superclusters, bare-metal deep learning servers, and high-performance hardware optimized for training, fine-tuning, and serving inference for complex AI foundation models.
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AWS Lambda Pushes Serverless toward Long-Running Workloads
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Lambda Signs White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, Reinforcing Commitment to Community Benefits & Grid Reliability
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AWS Lambda now supports 90-minute function timeout on Lambda Managed Instances - AWS
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The truth behind the Anthropic deal
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lambda over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
138
Postings analysed
135
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
Python27%
SQL9%
Go5%
C++4%
Frameworks & libraries
NCCL8%
CUDA4%
PyTorch3%
OpenTelemetry2%
Databases
ClickHouse2%
BigQuery2%
Google BigQuery2%
DynamoDB1%
Cloud & platforms
AWS Lambda100%
AWS100%
Linux29%
Kubernetes22%
AI & ML
LLM3%
Claude1%
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Full Lambda tech stack
138 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$331k
Typical range
$88k – $540k
Open positions
83
75
Jobs
Intern
1.3%
Middle
4%
Senior
53.3%
Staff
25.3%
Principal
5.3%
Architect
10.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 1 | $96k | $96k |
| Middle | 3 | $285k | $207k – $330k |
| Senior | 40 | $335k | $88k – $540k |
| Staff | 19 | $430k | $225k – $465k |
| Principal | 4 | $469k | $331k – $500k |
| Architect | 8 | $393k | $275k – $465k |
Highest paying role
Senior Director, Product Management - Platform
$540k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Lambda
By role, level and city, against the market · 83 jobs with pay
Products
Lambda Stack
A preconfigured software distribution bundling drivers, frameworks and libraries. Getting a GPU environment working correctly consumes days of expert time, and removing that friction was the company's original insight.
lambdalabs.com
Workstations and Servers
GPU workstations and rack servers sold to research teams and enterprises. It is the business the company started with and it still serves customers whose data is not permitted to leave their own premises.
lambdalabs.com
Inference API
Hosted endpoints serving open models on the company's own hardware. It reaches developers who want model access without provisioning, configuring or operating any infrastructure of their own whatsoever.
lambdalabs.com
Private Cloud
Dedicated multi-node GPU clusters reserved for a single customer. Large training runs need guaranteed interconnected capacity rather than instances scheduled wherever they happen to fit in a shared pool.
lambdalabs.com
GPU Cloud
On-demand and reserved GPU instances for training and inference. Pricing well below the hyperscalers is possible because the company offers almost none of the surrounding managed services those platforms bundle in.
lambdalabs.com
People
Benhamin Nelson
Executive Officer
Austen Allred
Executive Officer, Director
Ximena Flores
Executive Officer
Jessica Verrilli
Director
John Danner
Director
Stephen Oskoui
Director
Elias Torres
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
86
21 opened / 23 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
46 days
faster than 29% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
17% ▼
Backend
13% ▼
Finance
13% ▼
Product
8% ▲
Operations
7% ▲
Industrial Engineering
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Product (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Threat Modeling to stack
Oct 2026
Added STRIDE to stack
Oct 2026
Added DLP to stack
Oct 2026
Added Discord to stack
Oct 2026
Added Confluence to stack
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Figma to stack
Oct 2026
Added Adobe After Effects to stack
Oct 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Sep 2026
Added FinOps to stack
Sep 2026
Added Atlantis to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Reno
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
12
Countries
4
Busiest office
San Jose
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HQ
Lambda HQ
55 open roles 63 posted in 90 days 49% engineering 4% remote 200-500 est. staff $331k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Finance, DevOps
2510 Zanker Road, San Jose, California 95131
San Francisco
United States
Plant / site
68 open roles 81 posted in 90 days 46% engineering 3% remote 200-500 est. staff $350k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product, Finance
500 108th Ave NE, Suite 800
Bellevue
United States
Engineering / R&D
37 open roles 41 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 3% remote 50-200 est. staff $393k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product, DevOps
500 108th Ave NE, Suite 800
Bengaluru
India
Plant / site
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Finance, Enterprise Apps
New York
United States
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $280k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Legal
Elk Grove Village
United States
Plant / site
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $183k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
Kansas City
United States
Plant / site
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $119k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Atlanta
United States
Plant / site
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $119k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Quebec
Canada
Plant / site
1 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $88k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Querétaro
Mexico
Plant / site
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Operations
Austin
United States
Plant / site
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $119k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Reno
United States
Plant / site
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
Earlier presence
Vernon, United States
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