CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence.

Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability.

Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.

About the Role

As part of the Cluster Orchestration team, you will play a key role in advancing CoreWeave's orchestration platform including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond, our Kubernetes-native foundation that powers AI training and inference at scale.

This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the AI cloud: ensuring workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters.

By building the systems that eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and create new orchestration capabilities, you will directly empower customers to innovate faster and push the boundaries of what's possible with AI.

What You'll Do

As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader shaping the long-term strategy for CoreWeave's orchestration platform.

You'll define architectural direction, own critical parts of the orchestration platform and other managed services, and drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling at hyperscale.

You'll mentor senior engineers, establish org-wide best practices in reliability and observability, and ensure CoreWeave's orchestration layer evolves to meet the demands of next-generation AI workloads.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.

• Proven track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.

• Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals and cloud-native development.

• Advanced proficiency in Go and distributed systems design and cloud-native development.

• Experience setting technical direction and influencing cross-team architecture.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, EE, or related field.

Preferred

• Familiarity with orchestration and workflow technologies such as Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, or Argo Workflows

• Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals.

• Experience with distributed workloads, GPU-based applications, or ML pipelines.

• Knowledge of scheduling concepts like quota enforcement, pre-emption, and scaling strategies.

• Exposure to reliability practices including SLOs, alarms, and post-incident reviews.

• Experience with AI infrastructure and workloads (ML training, inference, or HPC).

• Ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate organizational standards.

Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on.

We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning.

Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core

• Act Like an Owner

• Empower Employees

• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences

• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking.

We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.

As we get set for take off, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding.

You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too.

Come join us!

Salary and Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $185,000 to $275,000.

The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation.

In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we've posted represents the typical compensation range for this role.

To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors.

These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave

• Company-paid Life Insurance

• Voluntary supplemental life insurance

• Short and long-term disability insurance

• Flexible Spending Account

• Health Savings Account

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health

• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot

• Paid Parental Leave

• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside

• 401(k) with a generous employer match

• Flexible PTO

• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations

• A casual work environment

• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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This platform integrates multiple orchestration and scheduling frameworks such as Kueue, Volcano, and Ray to support modern AI training and inference workflows. It complements SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) by providing a Kubernetes-first, cloud-native orchestration layer with deep platform integration.

You will own meaningful components of the platform, drive reliability and performance improvements, and help scale the system as customer demand and workload complexity continue to grow.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native services for AI workload orchestration and scheduling
• Own one or more platform components end-to-end, including design, implementation, testing, and on-call support
• Improve scheduling latency, cluster utilization, and workload reliability through metrics-driven engineering
• Contribute to architectural discussions across services and influence design decisions within the platform
• Work closely with adjacent teams (CKS, infrastructure, managed inference) to ensure clean interfaces and integrations
• Mentor junior engineers and raise the quality bar for code, design, and operations

About the role:

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Strong experience building production systems in Go (Python or C++ a plus)
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, APIs, controllers, and operating services in production
• Experience working with scheduling, resource management, or quota-based systems
• Proven ability to improve system reliability and performance using data and operational metrics
• Comfortable owning services in production and participating in on-call rotations

Preferred:

• Experience with Kubernetes-native orchestration frameworks such as Kueue, Volcano, Ray, Kubeflow, or Argo Workflows
• Familiarity with GPU-based workloads, ML training, or inference pipelines
• Knowledge of scheduling concepts such as quota enforcement, pre-emption, and backfilling
• Experience with reliability practices including SLOs, alerting, and incident response
• Exposure to AI infrastructure, HPC, or large-scale distributed compute environments

Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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You will define long-term architecture, solve hard scaling problems, and set technical direction across teams. Your work will directly affect how quickly customers can run models, how efficiently we use GPUs, and how reliably the platform behaves at scale.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining the long-term architecture for CoreWeave's orchestration platforms across Kubernetes, Slurm, SUNK, Kueue, and related systems.
• Acting as a technical authority on scheduling, quota enforcement, fairness, pre-emption, and multi-tenant GPU isolation.
• Making design decisions that balance performance, reliability, cost, and operational complexity.

In addition to these responsibilities, you will also lead the evolution of Kubernetes-native control planes, including SUNK and custom operators, and design systems that support workload admission, validation, and rollout, including model onboarding flows.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that the systems you design and implement meet the needs of our customers and are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

If you have a passion for building large-scale distributed systems and are looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply.

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What you'll do

• Gather user requirements, design, debug, test, and maintain high-quality, reusable code.
• Build ETL pipelines using ARGO Workflows to automate asset ingestion, validation, and transformation at scale.

What you need

• Proficiency in Python and 3+ years of experience in pipeline/tool development.

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