Staff AI Workload Orchestration Engineer

Fdetimes; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 342,000 - 418,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with match

Paid Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (IC5) to shape the AI Workload Orchestration Platform. You will lead architecture and define scalable primitives for AI workloads across GPU clusters, collaborating with infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive platform reliability, and influence CoreWeave's overall platform strategy while advancing Kubernetes-native orchestration across diverse runtimes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems or cloud platforms.
• Strong Go proficiency and experience designing large-scale production systems.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals, scheduling mechanisms, and controller-based architectures.
• Demonstrated experience leading orchestration, scheduling, or resource-management initiatives across teams.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives without direct authority and drive alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture for major portions of the AI Workload Orchestration Platform.
• Design scalable, reliable orchestration primitives for AI workloads across multiple schedulers and runtimes.
• Lead cross-team architecture reviews and drive alignment across infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams.
• Define platform standards for reliability, observability, capacity management, and operational excellence.
• Identify and resolve systemic performance, scalability, and fairness issues across large GPU clusters.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leadership within the organization.
• Represent the platform in technical reviews and influence broader CoreWeave platform strategy.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes internals

Distributed systems

Scheduling

Leadership without authority

Tools

Kueue

Volcano

Ray

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (IC5) to shape the AI Workload Orchestration Platform. You will lead architecture and define scalable primitives for AI workloads across GPU clusters, collaborating with infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive platform reliability, and influence CoreWeave's overall platform strategy while advancing Kubernetes-native orchestration across diverse runtimes.