Principal Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Services

Weights & Biases; United States; Hybrid; USD 206,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch daily

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

A pioneering AI infrastructure company in the United States is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead deep technical innovation across Cloud Infrastructure Services. This role involves architecting and optimizing infrastructure, focusing on high-performance systems and hardware/software integration. Ideal candidates should have over 15 years in the field and expertise in distributed systems and GPU workloads. Competitive compensation and flexible working arrangements are offered.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure or systems engineering.
• Proven experience across bare metal and cloud-native environments.
• Strong ability to simplify complexity in technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical innovation across Cloud Infrastructure Services.
• Architect and optimize full stack infrastructure.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and improve system architecture.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Hardware/software integration

Distributed systems performance tuning

Networking internals

GPU-intensive workloads

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux internals

Job description

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. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.

What You’ll Do

• Architect the next generation of infrastructure powering the planet’s most demanding AI workloads, focusing on system-level security, performance, resource efficiency, and resilience.
• Drive hardware/software co-design, optimizing how modern GPUs, CPUs, networking, and accelerators interface with orchestration layers like Kubernetes, custom schedulers, and workload APIs.
• Lead cross-functional engineering efforts to optimize the end-to-end performance stack—from silicon to software—for both training and inference use cases.
• Architect and implement innovations across low-level systems, firmware interactions, high-throughput storage, custom networking stacks, and software abstractions.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, pushing system boundaries through profiling, tuning, and distributed architecture improvements.
• Serve as a technical authority and mentor, guiding architectural decisions and fostering a culture of engineering excellence across the infrastructure and platform orgs.

About The Role

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead deep technical innovation across CoreWeave’s Cloud Infrastructure Services, helping architect and optimize the full stack by building differentiated infrastructure software and by taking advantage of the latest GPU, memory, storage and network hardware. This high-impact, technical leadership role requires innovative systems thinking, deep hardware-software integration expertise, and the ability to lead company-wide architecture and direction.

Who You Are

• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems engineering, or hardware/software integration at scale.
• Proven experience working across bare metal, containerized, and cloud-native environments.
• Deep expertise in at least one of: distributed systems performance tuning, hardware-software co-optimization, networking internals, or GPU-intensive workloads.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Linux internals, orchestration (Kubernetes), and low-level performance tools.
• Experience building cloud infrastructure services.
• Exceptional ability to simplify complexity and communicate technical decisions to both engineers and executives.

Preferred

• Familiarity with NVIDIA GPU architectures, MIG, NVLink, and multi-GPU workload scheduling.
• Experience with custom hardware integration, firmware, or systems firmware development.
• Publications, patents, or recognized contributions to the systems/performance engineering community.

Why CoreWeave?

• Cutting-edge mission: Build the infrastructure that supports today’s most transformative technologies.
• Massive scale and impact: Design systems used by some of the most advanced AI companies in the world.
• High trust, low ego culture: We empower technical leaders to solve hard problems without bureaucratic roadblocks.
• Competitive compensation: Excellent salary, equity, and benefits in a company backed by top-tier investors.
• Speed + Depth: We move fast, but never compromise on engineering depth or rigor.

Help Build the Future of Cloud

If you're driven to push the boundaries of what's possible in system architecture, performance, and scale—and want to shape the core of one of the most advanced cloud platforms in the world—we want to talk to you.

The base salary range for this role is $206,000 to $303,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. In addition to a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

• 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

Our Workplace

While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.

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CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [e-mail].

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be a U.S. person, defined as a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development