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 is a high-impact, technical leadership role that requires innovative systems thinking, deep hardware-software integration expertise, and the ability to lead company-wide architecture and direction. You will lead world-class technical teams to create additional differentiation for the world’s leading AI cloud.
About the role:
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).
What We Offer
The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
- 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: [email protected].
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) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) 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.
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What We Do
CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, delivers a cloud platform of cutting-edge software powering the next wave of AI. The company's technology provides enterprises and leading AI labs with cloud solutions for accelerated computing. Since 2017, CoreWeave has operated a growing footprint of data centers across the US and Europe. CoreWeave was ranked as one of the TIME100 most influential companies and featured on Forbes Cloud 100 ranking in 2024. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
Why Work With Us
At CoreWeave we work hard, have fun and move fast! Today we are a small, growing team of intelligent, genuine people, that value different perspectives and approaches to solving complex problems. We foster an environment that champions collaboration and prioritizes innovative solutions. Here, you are surrounded by the best.
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