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Senior Human Resources Generalist

Lambda
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/30/2026
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 office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

About The Role

The HR Operations team is engaged in the administration of a broad range of HR activities associated with the employee lifecycle. The team acts as the first point of contact for queries from managers and staff across the company and also provides a comprehensive administrative support service to the HR team, supporting all projects undertaken with the HR Department.

As a Senior HR Generalist at Lambda, you will play a key role in delivering a high-quality and responsive HR service, ensuring HRIS data integrity, automating workflows, and continuously improving HR processes to support scalability, sustainability, and simplicity.

What You’ll Do

  • Champion and actively reinforce Lambda’s culture, mission, purpose, and values across the organization, serving as a trusted partner to leaders and employees
  • Establish, evolve, and enforce company policies, ensuring alignment with business needs, compliance requirements, and best practices
  • Support the implementation, optimization, and ongoing management of HR systems, including Workday (HRIS) and ADP (payroll), ensuring data accuracy, process efficiency, and strong user experience
  • Ensure the integrity and maintenance of employee data across HR systems (e.g., HRIS, shared drives, knowledge management tools), with a focus on accuracy, security, and scalability.
  • Serve as a point of contact for employees on HR, benefits, and policy-related matters, providing guidance and driving resolution through HR shared channels and ticketing systems
  • Support compliance efforts for annual filings, reporting, and employee communications, partnering cross-functionally as needed
  • Act as the HR Operations point of contact for internal and external audits (e.g., SOC 2 Type I & II, ISO 27001), including maintaining documentation, responding to audit requests, and strengthening controls and processes
  • Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned, operating with a high degree of ownership and autonomy

You

  • Have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience (1 year of work experience for every school year)
  • Have 5 years of experience in HR Operations roles
  • Fluency in Workday, ADP, JIRA and Google Workspace
  • Have excellent communication, time management, and organizational skills
  • Can maintain high degrees of integrity handling sensitive and confidential information daily
  • Have proficiency in establishing, implementing, and enforcing company policies
  • Have the ability to collaborate, navigate ambiguity, and adapt to change, and balance
  • multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Have strong relationship building and networking skills
  • Can manage ambiguity across multiple priorities and to know when to escalate issues for final resolution
  • Experience in the technology industry
  • Start-up and / or remote environment experience

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

A Final Note

You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

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.

Compensation Range: $146K - $220K

Salary : $146,000 - $220,000

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