Staff Software Engineer- AI Workload Orchestration · CoreWeave

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:54:24 GMT
Engineering

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA · $188,000 to $275,000 · hybrid

As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Workload Orchestration Platform team, you will act as a technical leader for CoreWeave's Kubernetes-native orchestration strategy for AI workloads.

You will define and evolve the architecture for how AI workloads are admitted, scheduled, and governed across large GPU clusters using frameworks such as Kueue, Volcano, and Ray. This platform serves as a strategic complement to SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and underpins both training and inference workloads across the CoreWeave cloud.

This role requires strong systems thinking, cross-team influence, and a long-term view of platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

You will own the technical vision and architecture for major portions of the AI Workload Orchestration Platform, design scalable, reliable orchestration primitives for AI workloads 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 grow technical leadership within the organization, and represent the platform in technical reviews and influence broader CoreWeave platform strategy.

You will be responsible for leading technical initiatives across teams without direct authority, owning mission-critical systems at scale, and having a strong operational mindset. You will also have the opportunity to mentor senior engineers and grow technical leadership within the organization.

If you're a strong systems thinker with a passion for AI and cloud computing, this could be the perfect opportunity for you to join a team of innovators and help shape the future of AI workload orchestration.