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Principal Engineer, Cluster Orchestration

CoreWeave · Bellevue, WA / Sunnyvale, CA · Bellevue, WA · Sunnyvale, CA

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead design of orchestration powering some of the largest GPU clusters.
  • Shape how AI training and inference perform reliably at massive scale.
  • Improve how quickly customers can run models on the AI cloud platform.

What they offer

  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • 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 office and data center locations

Ideal candidate

A veteran distributed systems leader with 15+ years shaping large-scale platforms who thrives on hard scaling challenges and setting technical direction across teams to make AI infrastructure faster and more reliable.

Requirements

  • 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
  • Strong background in Go and cloud-native systems development
  • Proven ability to set technical direction across teams without direct authority
  • Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in complex systems
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience

Lab profile

About CoreWeave

The Essential Cloud for AI, providing high-performance compute infrastructure to build and scale AI.

What they build

  • AI cloud platform
  • GPU compute infrastructure
  • AI inference services

Known for

  • Superior infrastructure performance
  • Deep technical expertise
  • Trusted by leading AI labs, startups and enterprises

Key facts

  • Founded in 2017
  • Public company (Nasdaq: CRWV) since March 2025
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