Technical Program Manager: AI Platform & Cluster Orchestration

CoreWeave; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 237,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with generous match

Paid Parental Leave

Catered lunch in the office

Flexible PTO

Equity awards

Job summary

CoreWeave seeks a Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional programs across Cluster Orchestration and Applied Training within our AI/ML Platform Services organization in Bellevue, WA.

You will partner with engineering, product, infrastructure, and research teams to improve workload scheduling, scalability, and user experience across SUNK, Kueue, and related systems, delivering measurable outcomes for core workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical program management experience in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or AI/ML platforms.
• Experience leading large-scale cross-functional programs involving scheduling systems, cluster infrastructure, or ML platform capabilities.
• Strong technical fluency in Kubernetes, Slurm or comparable schedulers, distributed systems, and AI training workflows.
• Excellent communication skills with experience influencing engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end program execution for cluster orchestration initiatives spanning workload scheduling, self-service provisioning, upgrade and migration flows, and platform integrations.
• Lead cross-functional programs that improve how AI training, evaluation, RL, and mixed workloads run across CoreWeave clusters.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to define roadmap priorities and deliver measurable improvements in utilization, reliability, scalability, observability, and user experience.
• Drive delivery for applied training initiatives across pre-training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, sandbox environments, and evaluation systems.
• Coordinate dependencies across platform engineering, infrastructure, product, customer-facing teams, and ecosystem partners to ensure successful launches and clear operational ownership.
• Build program mechanisms for release readiness, rollout planning, risk management, stakeholder communication, and post-launch review.
• Establish success metrics, dashboards, and operating cadences to improve cluster efficiency, workload startup performance, time-to-research, and adoption of new platform capabilities.
• Create clarity across ambiguous technical programs by aligning stakeholders, surfacing tradeoffs early, and driving decisions to resolution.

Skills

Kubernetes

Slurm

Distributed systems

AI training workflows

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Technical program management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SUNK

Kueue

Ray

Job description

CoreWeave seeks a Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional programs across Cluster Orchestration and Applied Training within our AI/ML Platform Services organization in Bellevue, WA.

You will partner with engineering, product, infrastructure, and research teams to improve workload scheduling, scalability, and user experience across SUNK, Kueue, and related systems, delivering measurable outcomes for core workloads.