Technical Program Manager – Inference

Sunnyvale, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 180000 - 264000

Posted on: 6 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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.

About the role

CoreWeaves AI/ML Platform Services organization builds the distributed systems that power large-scale inference workloads across our GPU-accelerated cloud. As a Technical Program Manager focused on distributed inference model onboarding and runtime optimization you will drive programs that enable AI models to serve billions of inferences reliably and efficiently.

Youll partner closely with engineering product and marketing teams to deliver scalable performant model-serving systemsreducing latency improving GPU utilization and making it easier for customers and internal teams to onboard and optimize AI models on CoreWeave.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex cross-functional environments has deep technical fluency in distributed systems or ML infrastructure or Gen AI and excels at creating structure visibility and execution rhythm across multiple teams.

In this role the TPM will

Drive end-to-end program management for distributed inference platform initiatives including scaling reliability and performance optimization.
Lead cross-functional programs for model onboarding defining standardized workflows for integrating validating and deploying customer and foundation models on CoreWeave.
Partner with engineering and product to define and deliver roadmap outcomes for serving throughput latency and cost efficiency.
Coordinate multi-team execution across AI runtime GPU infrastructure and DevOps to deliver high-availability inference services.
Build and operationalize success metrics dashboards and launch gates to measure reliability efficiency and quality across the inference stack.
Collaborate with Product Engineering and Marketing on GTM readiness ensuring technical enablement documentation and launch processes align with customer adoption and commercial rollout timelines.
Establish repeatable processes for rollout management performance regression tracking and postmortem analysis.
Create and lead operating cadences (program reviews launch readiness and retrospectives) to improve visibility and execution velocity.
Collaborate with other TPMs and technical leads across CoreWeave to ensure platform-wide alignment on reliability scalability and release practices.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
8 years of program management experience in distributed systems cloud infrastructure or AI/ML platform engineering.
Proven experience driving large-scale serving or infrastructure programs from concept to production.
Strong technical fluency in GPU compute distributed inference systems container orchestration and cloud-native architectures.
Demonstrated success in driving measurable improvements in performance reliability or operational efficiency.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to align engineering product and leadership stakeholders around shared goals.

Additional Qualifications

Familiarity with inference-serving frameworks (e.g. vLLM SGLang).
Experience with model onboarding workflows rollout strategies and observability tooling (Prometheus Grafana).
Understanding of ML workloads GPU resource management and performance optimization techniques.
Experience defining or maturing technical program structures across multiple teams in a high-growth or startup environment.

The base salary range for this role is $180000 to $264000. 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 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 weve 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

California Consumer Privacy Act - California applicants only

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: .

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.

Required Experience:

Manager