Lead, AI Inference Platform Programs

CoreWeave; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager focused on inference to lead cross-functional programs across the AI/ML Platform Services organization. You will partner with engineering, product, research, and GTM teams to deliver scalable, reliable inference platforms for researchers, engineers, and enterprise customers.

You will drive onboarding, launch readiness, and runtime optimization for serverless and dedicated inference, building dashboards and gates to ensure high

Qualifications

• Understanding of customer onboarding for technical products, especially where platform capabilities, infrastructure readiness, and support processes must align for launch.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience driving large-scale infrastructure or platform programs from concept to production in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align engineering, product, infrastructure, and customer-facing stakeholders around shared goals.
• Experience with inference-serving systems, model onboarding workflows, rollout strategies, and observability tooling.
• Familiarity with launch readiness, supportability, incident follow-through, and release validation for production infrastructure or platform services.
• 8+ years of technical program management experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or AI/ML platform engineering.
• Demonstrated success driving measurable improvements in reliability, performance, operational readiness, or customer delivery.
• Experience operating in high-growth environments where roadmap execution, reliability expectations, and customer commitments must be managed in parallel.
• You’re effective at creating clarity and momentum across ambiguous, fast-moving multi-team initiatives.
• You love driving execution for complex, customer-facing AI infrastructure and platform programs.
• You’re curious about how large-scale inference systems evolve across runtime performance, operational excellence, and customer onboarding.
• You enjoy turning technically complex platform work into predictable execution and successful launches.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery and execution across CoreWeave’s AI/ML Platform Services organization.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Infrastructure, and Go-to-Market teams to deliver scalable, reliable platforms that support the full AI lifecycle.
• Drive alignment and execution across highly technical, cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of customer-facing infrastructure and platform capabilities used by researchers, engineers, and enterprise customers.
• Lead complex, cross-functional programs spanning inference platform delivery, customer onboarding, launch readiness, and runtime optimization.
• Build and operate highly scalable, reliable production inference services for serverless and dedicated inference use cases.
• Create strong success metrics, dashboards, launch gates, and review cadences to measure service reliability, onboarding readiness, efficiency, and quality across the inference stack.
• Establish repeatable processes for release validation, performance regression tracking, launch management, and postmortem follow-through.
• Help unify operational processes, support mechanisms, and execution visibility across inference deployment models and customer onboarding paths.
• Create strong communication channels between Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Go-to-Market teams to align priorities and deliver predictable, high-impact outcomes.

Skills

Distributed inference

GPU compute

Cloud-native

Performance optimization

Customer onboarding

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Observability tooling

Reliability engineering

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager focused on inference to lead cross-functional programs across the AI/ML Platform Services organization. You will partner with engineering, product, research, and GTM teams to deliver scalable, reliable inference platforms for researchers, engineers, and enterprise customers.

You will drive onboarding, launch readiness, and runtime optimization for serverless and dedicated inference, building dashboards and gates to ensure high