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Lightning AI

Lightning AI

New York, NY

AI cloud platform for building and deploying models

35 open roles
AI51-200Series CFounded 2019Salary transparent

About

Lightning AI builds an end-to-end platform including AI Studio for coding, training, and deploying AI models from the browser with zero setup, powered by PyTorch Lightning. It serves developers and AI teams needing GPU infrastructure, distributed training, and inference. This enables fast iteration and scaling of AI products without infrastructure management hassles.

Tech stack

PythonKubernetesGoLinuxPyTorchAWSPrometheusCUDATerraformAnsibleGrafanaOpenTelemetryReactJavaScriptGCP

Open roles

35
Lightning AI

Accounting Manager, Revenue Operations

Lightning AISan Francisco, CA

Own monthly/quarterly revenue close and ASC 606 accounting for consumption-based GPU cloud contracts. Manage CRM-to-cash data flow, billing/AR operations, and build scalable revenue processes.

140k – 190k/yrOn-site8+ YOEFinance & Accounting
Lightning AI

Global Tax Lead

Lightning AISan Francisco, CA

Leads the corporate tax function for a multi-entity AI infrastructure company, overseeing compliance, ASC 740 tax accounting, M&A support, property and indirect taxes, and tax risk management. Requires 8+ years of corporate tax experience and strong U.S. federal, state, and multi-state expertise.

185k – 200k/yrHybrid8+ YOEFinance & Accounting
Lightning AI

Senior Accountant

Lightning AINew York, NY +2

Own full-cycle accounts payable, procure-to-pay operations, capital expenditure tracking, accruals, and compliance for infrastructure spend at a high-growth AI company. Requires 4+ years AP/P2P experience, bachelor's in accounting/finance, and strong controls mindset in a capital-intensive environment.

140k – 190k/yrHybrid4+ YOEFinance & Accounting
Lightning AI

Director of Customer Experience

Lightning AINew York, NY

Lead the customer experience organization for Lightning AI's developer-first AI platform. Build and manage a global team of Technical Account Managers and Support Engineers, own strategy for onboarding through expansion, drive adoption/retention metrics, and translate customer insights to product/engineering while engaging technically with ML and infrastructure teams.

155k – 220k/yrHybrid10+ YOECustomer Success
Lightning AI

VP of Customer Success

Lightning AINew York, NY

Lead and scale the Customer Success function at Lightning AI. Build CS processes, manage a team of CSMs/TAMs, drive adoption/retention/expansion for technical AI customers, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales leadership.

200k – 250k/yrHybrid8+ YOECustomer Success
Lightning AI

Director of Sales Development

Lightning AINew York, NY

Lead, coach, and scale an SDR team to generate high-quality enterprise pipeline for AI and technical products through disciplined outbound motions, playbooks, and detailed coaching of early-career sellers. Requires 4+ years B2B sales experience including 1+ year managing SDRs.

160k – 215k/yrHybrid4+ YOESales Development
Lightning AI

VP of Strategy and Operations

Lightning AINew York, NY

VP of Strategy and Operations partnering with the CEO and executive team to define strategic direction, evaluate growth opportunities, track metrics, lead cross-functional initiatives, improve operational efficiency, and align teams across Product, Sales, Engineering, Finance, and Customer Success for scalable growth.

180k – 250k/yrHybrid8+ YOEBusiness Operations
Lightning AI

VP of Solution Engineering

Lightning AINew York, NY

Lead and scale the Solutions Engineering organization to support enterprise sales, technical evaluations, and customer expansion for Lightning AI's AI infrastructure and ML platform. Requires 12+ years in technical pre-sales leadership with 5+ years managing field teams, deep enterprise selling expertise, and strong cross-functional partnership skills.

250k – 400k/yrHybrid12+ YOESales Engineering
Lightning AI

VP of Sales

Lightning AINew York, NY

Lead and scale an enterprise sales team selling AI infrastructure and developer platforms to technical buyers (ML, infrastructure, engineering leaders). Own pipeline, forecasting, coaching on complex deals, and building repeatable GTM processes in a fast-paced startup.

450k – 500k/yrHybrid8+ YOESales Engineering
Lightning AI

Senior Backend Engineer, Managed Kubernetes & Slurm

Lightning AINew York, NY +2

Design, build, and operate backend services and control planes in Go or Python to manage Kubernetes and Slurm clusters on large-scale GPU infrastructure. Requires significant production backend experience and deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes or Slurm.

180k – 250k/yrHybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Lightning AI

Revenue Enablement Manager

Lightning AISan Francisco, CA

Revenue Enablement Manager responsible for outbound prospecting, lead qualification, pipeline building, and collaborating with product/engineering/marketing to optimize sales processes for technical AI/ML products. Requires 5+ years in sales roles closing technical deals, CRM proficiency, and familiarity with AI ecosystems.

180k – 250k/yrHybrid5+ YOERevenue Operations
Lightning AI

Senior Network Engineer

Lightning AINew York, NY +2

Senior Network Engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and optimizing large-scale NVIDIA InfiniBand fabrics and UFM for AI/ML GPU clusters. Requires 10+ years data center networking experience with deep expertise in InfiniBand, spine-leaf architectures, automation, and HPC environments.

170k – 210k/yrOn-site10+ YOEDevOps / SRE
Lightning AI

Senior Product Designer

Lightning AINew York, NY

Senior Product Designer collaborating with product and engineering teams to craft user journeys, prototypes, and interfaces for an AI platform. Requires 5+ years designing technical/B2C products, strong portfolio, Figma proficiency, and familiarity with AI/ML concepts.

160k – 200k/yrOn-site5+ YOEProduct Design
Lightning AI

Data Center Technician

Lightning AIPuyallup, WA +3

Maintain and troubleshoot hardware, servers, storage, and networking in data centers. Rack, cable, configure infrastructure; diagnose issues; create documentation and standards. Requires 2+ years data center experience, strong Linux skills, networking knowledge.

80k – 90k/yrOn-site2+ YOEHardware Engineering
Lightning AI

Senior Operations Specialist

Lightning AINew York, NY +1

Senior Operations Specialist embedding with teams at Lightning AI to identify friction, build and deploy AI-powered internal tools, automations, and scalable workflows. Requires 4+ years ops experience, end-to-end project ownership, and hands-on skills building AI agents and automations.

140k – 160k/yrHybrid4+ YOEBusiness Operations
Lightning AI

Senior Technical Program Manager

Lightning AIUnited States

Lead complex cross-functional infrastructure programs spanning network, compute, storage, datacenter, and hardware rollouts. Requires 8+ years TPM experience in infrastructure/cloud/distributed systems, strong program planning, dependency/risk management, and ability to drive execution across engineering and operations teams in ambiguous environments.

160k – 220k/yrRemote8+ YOETechnical Program Management
Lightning AI

Manager, Data Engineering

Lightning AINew York, NY

Lead data engineering and analytics engineering teams to design and own ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, quality, and governance. Requires 10+ years data engineering experience including 4+ years managing teams, deep expertise in SQL/Python/modern data stack, and partnering with DS/Product/Eng.

188k – 275k/yrHybrid10+ YOEData Engineering
Lightning AI

IT Asset Specialist

Lightning AIQuincy, WA

Manages on-site IT asset lifecycle, inventory, shipping/receiving, and vendor access at a data center location. Requires strong organizational skills, spreadsheet/database experience, and comfort working independently in technical environments.

70k – 80k/yrOn-siteIT Support
Lightning AI

Senior Network Engineer

Lightning AIUnited States

Design and operate large-scale AI data center networks using spine-leaf architectures, EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, and automation tools. Requires 5+ years of data center networking experience and hands-on work with Cumulus NOS, SONiC, and Junos.

150k – 190k/yrRemote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE
Lightning AI

Senior Technical Recruiter

Lightning AIUnited States

Lead full-cycle technical recruiting for AI engineering, infrastructure, and product teams at a high-growth tech company. Requires 7+ years recruiting software engineers and strong ATS and community engagement experience.

120k – 150k/yrRemote7+ YOERecruiting
Lightning AI

Network Operations Center (NOC) Operator

Lightning AIFort Worth, TX +2

Monitor data center systems, triage alerts, follow runbooks, and escalate issues to hardware/network/SRE teams in a 24/7 operations environment. Requires basic Linux/IT familiarity and strong attention to detail.

75k – 85k/yrOn-siteEntry levelIT Support
Lightning AI

Network Operations Center (NOC) Analyst

Lightning AIFort Worth, TX +2

Monitor and troubleshoot Linux systems, network connectivity, and hardware in data centers. Diagnose issues, triage incidents, and document findings for hardware, network, and SRE teams.

85k – 100k/yrOn-siteIT Support
Lightning AI

Platform Support Engineer

Lightning AISan Francisco, CA +1

Support ML infrastructure at scale: troubleshoot Kubernetes, GPU clusters, and distributed training systems while collaborating directly with engineering teams and customers.

115k – 140k/yrHybridSupport Engineering
Lightning AI

Forward Deployed Engineer

Lightning AINew York, NY +2

Forward Deployed Engineer who partners with customers to design, implement, and deploy production AI systems and workflows. Requires strong Python experience, customer-facing technical roles, and familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure and deployment.

120k – 250k/yrOn-siteSolutions Architecture
Lightning AI

Infrastructure Operations Engineer

Lightning AINew York, NY +2

Design, build, and maintain infrastructure platforms using Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible to support internal and customer-facing services. Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate across engineering and operations teams.

160k – 200k/yrHybrid8+ YOEDevOps / SRE
Lightning AI

Senior Product Manager, Inference

Lightning AINew York, NY +1

Leads growth initiatives for AI inference products, running experiments on onboarding, pricing, and messaging to boost activation, retention, and viral loops for developer users. Requires 5+ years PM experience, strong analytics, and AI/ML curiosity.

160k – 275k/yrHybrid5+ YOEProduct Management
Lightning AI

Infrastructure Engineer (GPU & Compute)

Lightning AINew York, NY +2

Owns GPU diagnostics, validation workflows, and automation for bare-metal infrastructure supporting AI/ML workloads. Requires 5+ years in systems engineering with strong Linux, Python, and NVIDIA tools expertise.

180k – 200k/yrRemote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE
Lightning AI

Infrastructure Engineer (Storage)

Lightning AINew York, NY +2

Operate and scale distributed storage systems like VAST and Ceph for AI/ML workloads, build Python automation tools, manage Linux bare-metal systems, and collaborate on infrastructure optimizations. Requires 5+ years in infrastructure engineering with storage expertise.

180k – 200k/yrRemote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE
Lightning AI

Senior Application Security Engineer, AI and Machine Learning

Lightning AISan Francisco, CA +1

Secures AI/ML systems through threat modeling, architecture reviews, and securing inference pipelines, APIs, and model supply chains. Partners with ML engineers to embed security in training, deployment, and multi-tenant workloads while building automation tooling.

180k – 220k/yrHybridSecurity Engineering
Lightning AI

Network Security Engineer

Lightning AISan Francisco, CA +1

Designs and implements network security architectures using firewalls, VPNs, and IDS/IPS. Conducts vulnerability assessments, monitors threats with SIEM tools, ensures compliance, and automates security responses. Requires expertise in security tools and certifications like CISSP.

180k – 220k/yrHybridSecurity Engineering
Lightning AI

Fullstack Engineer

Lightning AINew York, NY +2

Build features and improve performance using React and Go/Python in a SaaS environment. Partner on product development, own end-to-end features, mentor engineers, and maintain high code quality standards.

120k – 250k/yrRemoteFullstack Engineering
Lightning AI

Backend Engineer

Lightning AINew York, NY +2

Build scalable backend systems in Go for a SaaS product, partnering with product leaders to deliver features, improve performance, and mentor engineers. Requires extensive Go experience, cloud platforms, and end-to-end ownership in high-uncertainty environments.

120k – 250k/yrRemoteBackend Engineering
Lightning AI

Account Executive

Lightning AINew York, NY

Sells technical and developer-focused products to technical audiences through outbound prospecting, lead qualification, demos, and closing deals to exceed revenue targets. Requires 5+ years sales experience, familiarity with AI/ML ecosystem, and proficiency in HubSpot and sales methodologies.

150k – 150k/yrOn-site5+ YOEAccount Executive
Lightning AI

Sales Development Representative

Lightning AINew York, NY

Conduct outbound prospecting to generate and qualify sales leads, build pipeline, and exceed quotas using CRM tools. Requires 1-3 years sales development experience, preferably in tech/AI, with strong communication skills.

60k – 80k/yrOn-site1+ YOESales Development
Lightning AI

Research Engineer

Lightning AINew York, NY +1

Develops performance optimizations for ML models across graph, kernel, and system levels using PyTorch and Thunder compiler. Builds tools, collaborates with partners, and contributes to open-source while requiring strong PyTorch expertise and optimization experience.

180k – 250k/yrRemoteML Engineering