Principal Engineer, AI Infrastructure & Orchestration

Coreweave; Bellevue (CA); On-site; USD 206,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

Flexible PTO

401(k) with a generous employer match

Catered lunch each day

Job summary

Coreweave is looking for a Principal Engineer in AI Infrastructure to design and evolve cluster orchestration systems such as Slurm and Kubernetes. You will play a key role in improving how efficiently GPUs are used and how reliably large models run.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $206,000 to $303,000, with additional benefits including comprehensive health insurance and flexible PTO.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep, practical knowledge of Kubernetes and Slurm internals.
• Experience running GPU-heavy platforms for AI training, inference, or HPC workloads.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term architecture for orchestration platforms.
• Lead the evolution of Kubernetes-native control planes.
• Set standards for reliability and operational readiness.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Slurm

Go

AI platforms

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Kueue

Kubeflow

Argo Workflows

Ray

Istio

Knative

Job description

Coreweave is looking for a Principal Engineer in AI Infrastructure to design and evolve cluster orchestration systems such as Slurm and Kubernetes. You will play a key role in improving how efficiently GPUs are used and how reliably large models run.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $206,000 to $303,000, with additional benefits including comprehensive health insurance and flexible PTO.