CoreWeave

Staff Software Engineer- AI Workload Orchestration

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

Base Salary

$188k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical vision and architecture for major portions of the AI Workload Orchestration Platform.
  • Design scalable and reliable orchestration primitives across multiple schedulers and runtimes.
  • Lead cross-team architecture reviews and drive alignment across infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams.
  • Define platform standards for reliability, observability, capacity management, and operational excellence.
  • Identify and resolve systemic performance, scalability, and fairness issues across large GPU clusters.
  • Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leadership across the organization.
  • Represent the platform in technical reviews and influence broader CoreWeave platform strategy.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems or cloud platforms and strong proficiency in Go.
  • Experience designing large-scale, long-lived production systems and owning mission-critical systems at scale.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals, scheduling mechanisms, and controller-based architectures.
  • Experience designing or evolving orchestration, scheduling, or resource-management platforms.
  • Ability to lead technical initiatives and influence cross-team decisions without direct authority.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with Kueue, Volcano, Ray, or similar Kubernetes-native orchestration frameworks.
  • Preferred: background in AI infrastructure, ML platforms, HPC, or large-scale batch and streaming systems.
  • Preferred: understanding of fairness, pre-emption, quota management, and multi-tenant isolation.
  • Preferred: experience defining and operating SLOs, capacity models, and large-scale reliability improvements.
  • Preferred: contributions to open-source infrastructure or orchestration projects.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave.
  • Company-paid life insurance, with voluntary supplemental life insurance available.
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance, Flexible Spending Account, and Health Savings Account.
  • Tuition reimbursement and participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Mental wellness benefits through Spring Health and family-forming support through Carrot.
  • Paid parental leave and flexible, full-service childcare support through Kinside.
  • 401(k) with an employer match.
  • Flexible PTO, catered lunch at office and data center locations, and a casual work environment.
  • Hybrid work is prioritized; remote work may be considered for candidates more than 30 miles from an office, with hub onboarding during the first month and quarterly team gatherings.

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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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