Technical Program Manager - Performance & Benchmarking

CoreWeave; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Tuition Reimbursement

Catered lunch each day

Job summary

CoreWeave in San Francisco is looking for a Technical Program Manager to lead performance and benchmarking initiatives in their AI/ML Platform Services. You will be responsible for ensuring the infrastructure reliability and performance for demanding AI workloads.

This role requires expertise in distributed systems, technical program management, and benchmarking. The successful candidate will be experienced in driving cross-functional programs and optimizing cloud infrastructure.

The position offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, a generous 401(k) match, and flexible PTO.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical program management experience in cloud infrastructure or AI/ML platforms.
• Strong technical fluency in distributed systems and workload performance measurement.
• Experience with AI/ML benchmarking and infrastructure validation.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end program execution for performance and benchmarking initiatives.
• Partner with engineering teams to verify new hardware and software environments.
• Establish dashboards and success metrics for performance visibility.

Skills

Technical program management

Cloud infrastructure

Performance engineering

Benchmarking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related

Tools

GPU cluster architecture

Observability tools

Job description

Overview

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.

In This Role

The AI/ML TPM team owns delivery and execution across CoreWeave's AI/ML Platform Services organization. The team partners closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Infrastructure, and Go-to-Market teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performance platforms that support the full AI lifecycle. AI/ML TPMs drive alignment and execution across highly technical, cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of customer-facing infrastructure and platform capabilities used by researchers, engineers, and enterprise customers.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional programs across Performance & Benchmarking within our AI/ML Platform Services organization. This team is responsible for ensuring CoreWeave's infrastructure is performant, stable, and validated for demanding AI workloads before and as it reaches customers. The work spans infrastructure verification, benchmarking, observability, and performance readiness across new hardware platforms, clusters, and model workloads. You will partner with engineering, infrastructure, product, capacity, and go-to-market teams to drive programs that improve workload performance, validate new environments, operationalize benchmarking frameworks, and create visibility into how CoreWeave systems perform across models, hardware generations, and deployment contexts.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end program execution for performance and benchmarking initiatives spanning infrastructure validation, performance testing, benchmark execution, observability, and launch readiness
• Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to deliver programs that verify new hardware platforms, clusters, and software environments meet CoreWeave standards for performance and stability
• Lead cross-functional efforts to operationalize benchmarking frameworks that measure model performance, runtime efficiency, GPU utilization, and workload reliability across environments
• Coordinate dependencies across platform engineering, infrastructure, capacity, product, and go-to-market teams to ensure performance findings are translated into roadmap priorities, customer readiness, and external proof points
• Build program mechanisms for release readiness, benchmark planning, risk management, issue escalation, and post-launch review for performance-sensitive infrastructure initiatives
• Establish dashboards, operating cadences, and success metrics to improve performance visibility, infrastructure validation coverage, benchmark repeatability, and time-to-readiness for new platforms
• Help drive prioritization across performance bottlenecks, test gaps, and benchmark requests by aligning stakeholders on goals, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes
• Create clarity across ambiguous technical programs by aligning teams around performance goals, validation criteria, and execution milestones

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of technical program management experience in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, high-performance computing, or AI/ML platforms
• Experience leading large-scale cross-functional programs involving performance engineering, benchmarking, validation systems, or infrastructure readiness
• Strong technical fluency in distributed systems, GPU or accelerator-based infrastructure, workload performance measurement, and large-scale infrastructure operations
• Demonstrated ability to define program metrics and drive measurable outcomes in performance, reliability, scale, or operational maturity
• Excellent communication skills, with experience influencing engineering, product, and infrastructure stakeholders
• Experience with AI/ML benchmarking, performance analysis, or infrastructure validation for training and inference workloads
• Familiarity with GPU cluster architecture, workload observability, hardware bring-up, and performance bottleneck analysis
• Understanding of benchmarking methodologies, reproducibility, test coverage, and the tradeoffs between performance, stability, utilization, and customer readiness
• Experience building launch processes, release governance, dependency management, and operational review mechanisms in fast-scaling environments
• Familiarity with translating technical performance data into actionable decisions for product, customer, or go-to-market audiences

Why CoreWeave

We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who can bring diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match.

What We Offer

The range posted represents the typical compensation for this role. Actual compensation is determined based on market rate, qualifications, experience, and location. In addition to base salary, we offer a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (based on eligibility).

Benefits for US-based roles include:

• 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

Legal and Compliance

California Applicants

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

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, eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.