CoreWeave

Staff Software Engineer, Inference

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5 months ago
Bellevue, WA, USA or Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$188k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture and cross-team design initiatives spanning multiple services and teams
  • Build and operate CoreWeave’s Kubernetes-native inference platform
  • Optimize inference latency, throughput, GPU utilization, batching, scheduling, and memory usage
  • Improve system reliability and performance across large-scale real-time inference systems
  • Design and operate distributed, low-latency, high-throughput infrastructure
  • Drive engineering direction through hands-on technical leadership and organization-wide influence

Requirements

  • 8–12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms
  • Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives affecting multiple services or organizations
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or C++
  • Deep production-scale Kubernetes expertise, including orchestration, scheduling, and service design
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and performance optimization
  • Experience designing and operating low-latency, high-throughput systems with strict P95/P99 latency requirements
  • Hands-on experience with inference systems, batching or micro-batching, caching, and memory optimization
  • Experience using metrics-driven approaches to improve latency, throughput, and utilization
  • Familiarity with mixed precision, including BF16 and FP8, and streaming inference workloads
  • Preferred experience with vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, or TorchServe
  • Preferred experience with GPU systems and optimization, including CUDA, NCCL, RDMA, NUMA, and GPU interconnects
  • Preferred experience leading multi-team or organization-level technical initiatives
  • Exposure to large-scale AI/ML infrastructure or hyperscale cloud environments
  • Applicants must satisfy applicable U.S. export-control access or authorization requirements

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, full-service childcare support through Kinside
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Flexible PTO
  • Catered lunch at office and data center locations
  • Casual work environment
  • Hybrid work is prioritized; remote work may be considered for candidates more than 30 miles from an office
  • Onboarding at a company hub within the first month and quarterly team gatherings
CoreWeave

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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