Principal Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Services
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Job Location:
Livingston, MT - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 206000 - 303000
Posted on:
7 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
What Youll Do:
We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead deep technical innovation across CoreWeaves 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 worlds leading AI cloud.
About the role:
- Architect the next generation of infrastructure powering the planets 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 stackfrom silicon to softwarefor 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.
Why CoreWeave
- Cutting-edge mission: Build the infrastructure that supports todays 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.
Help Build the Future of Cloud
If youre driven to push the boundaries of whats possible in system architecture performance and scaleand want to shape the core of one of the most advanced cloud platforms in the worldwe want to talk to you.
The base salary range for this role is $206000 to $303000. 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:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Jenkins
- Ruby
- Python
- Active Directory
- Cloud
- PowerShell
- Windows
- AWS
- Linux
- SAN
- Java
- Troubleshoot
- Backup
- Puppet
- hardware
About Company
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