Staff Software Engineer, Runtime Systems for Distributed AI

korecv; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-level Medical Insurance

Family-level Dental Insurance

Generous Pension Contribution

Life Assurance at 4x Salary

Critical Illness Cover

Employee Assistance Programme

Tuition Reimbursement

Work culture focused on innovativedisu

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Runtime Systems, to design and implement the layer that enables complex AI, simulation, and engineering workloads to run reliably at scale. You will wrestle with distributed runtimes, contracts, and execution models, ensuring safe work across Kubernetes, Argo, OSMO, and future environments.

You’ll lead hands-on systems development, define durable interfaces, and mentor engineers while collaborating with platform and infrastructure teams to improve

Qualifications

• Significant experience building complex systems software and distributed infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in at least one area: distributed systems, runtimes, workflows, programming languages, cluster scheduling, or high-performance software.
• Strong fundamentals and production coding ability.
• Experience designing APIs, protocols, and contracts between evolving systems.
• Strong understanding of failure modes, state, retries, and concurrency.
• Good judgment about when abstraction adds value and when it adds complexity.

Responsibilities

• Design and build runtime components for AI, simulation, and engineering workloads.
• Define abstractions for workloads, execution environments, dependencies, and state.
• Create interfaces between services and systems like Kubernetes, Argo, and OSMO.
• Establish boundaries for state ownership, decisions, and side effects.
• Write production-grade software for runtime and control-plane components.
• Build adapters for heterogeneous execution environments and improve observability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Runtime systems

Workflow or execution engines

Programming languages / compilers

Cluster scheduling

High-performance / systems software

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Argo

OSMO

Temporal

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Runtime Systems, to design and implement the layer that enables complex AI, simulation, and engineering workloads to run reliably at scale. You will wrestle with distributed runtimes, contracts, and execution models, ensuring safe work across Kubernetes, Argo, OSMO, and future environments.

You’ll lead hands-on systems development, define durable interfaces, and mentor engineers while collaborating with platform and infrastructure teams to improve