CoreWeave

Senior Software Engineer I, Inference

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5 months ago
Bellevue, WA, USA or Sunnyvale, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$139k - $204k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead design reviews, drive team architecture, and decompose multi-service work into milestones
  • Define and own SLIs and SLOs and ensure post-incident actions improve reliability release over release
  • Implement and measure advanced optimizations such as micro-batch schedulers, speculative decoding, and KV-cache reuse
  • Improve incident readiness through capacity planning, autoscaling, graceful degradation, rollback, and traffic-shift strategies
  • Mentor IC1 and IC2 engineers, review cross-team designs, and raise coding and testing standards
  • For IC4, own a platform area spanning multiple services and teams, such as request routing, adaptive scheduling, cost-per-token analytics, or GPU resource isolation

Requirements

  • Approximately 3–5 years of industry experience for IC3 or 5–8 years for IC4 building distributed systems or cloud services
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Strong Python or Go programming skills; C++ is a plus
  • Deep familiarity with networked systems and performance
  • Production-scale Kubernetes experience
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD and observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
  • Practical knowledge of inference internals including batching, caching, BF16/FP8 mixed precision, and streaming token delivery
  • Track record of improving P95/P99 tail latency and service reliability through metrics-driven work
  • Preferred contributions to vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, or TorchServe
  • Preferred experience with CUDA kernels, NCCL/SHARP, RDMA/NUMA, or GPU interconnect topologies
  • Preferred experience leading multi-team initiatives or partnering with customers on mission-critical launches

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave
  • Company-paid life insurance and voluntary supplemental life insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program eligibility
  • Mental wellness benefits through Spring Health
  • Family-forming support through Carrot
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible childcare support through Kinside
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Flexible PTO
  • Catered lunch at office and data center locations
  • Hybrid work is prioritized; remote work may be considered for candidates more than 30 miles from an office
  • New hires attend onboarding at a company hub within their first month; teams gather quarterly

Tech Stack

C++GoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPython
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About CoreWeave

1,001-5,000 employees

CoreWeave provides a GPU-accelerated cloud for AI training and inference, VFX, and rendering, with bare-metal instances, Kubernetes orchestration, and managed services to scale workloads. It sells on-demand and reserved capacity to AI labs, startups, and enterprises, and offers SaaS tools and hands-on support for deployment. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker CRWV.

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