Staff Software Engineer, Inference

What Youll Do:

CoreWeaves Inference team builds and operates the core cloud platform powering massive-scale GPU workloads for AI/ML VFX rendering and real-time inference. Our stack is engineered for speed scale and cost efficiencyproviding a powerful alternative to traditional hyperscalers. Infrastructure is our product and we operate it at massive scale to power the most demanding workloads.

About the role:

As a Staff Software Engineer (IC5) on the Inference team you will operate as a technical leader across multiple teams and services driving architecture performance and reliability for CoreWeaves Kubernetes-native inference platform. You will define and lead complex cross-cutting design initiatives spanning request routing adaptive scheduling GPU resource management and cost-per-token optimization under strict P99 SLAs. This high-impact role requires you to implement advanced inference optimizationssuch as speculative decoding and KV-cache reusewhile establishing performance benchmarking frameworks guiding cross-functional alignment across infrastructure boundaries and raising the bar for engineering rigor and observability practices.

Who You Are:

• 812 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms.
• Proven track record of leading cross-team or organization-level technical initiatives at scale.
• Strong coding skills in Go Python or C.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes at production scale including orchestration scheduling and service design.
• Strong understanding of networked systems performance optimization and distributed system design.
• Hands-on engineering experience with inference systems including batching/micro-batching strategies caching memory optimization mixed precision (BF16/FP8) and streaming token delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to systematically improve tail latency (P95/P99) and platform reliability through metrics-driven engineering.
• Experienced in owning system-wide SLIs/SLOs capacity planning autoscaling strategies and mentoring senior and mid-level engineers.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.

Preferred:

• Direct open-source or production contributions to modern inference frameworks such as vLLM Triton TensorRT-LLM Ray Serve or TorchServe.
• Deep experience with GPU systems engineering and hardware performance optimization (CUDA NCCL RDMA NUMA or GPU interconnects).
• Direct exposure to large-scale AI/ML infrastructure or hyperscale cloud environments.

Wondering if youre a good fit

We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams even if you arent a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities weve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you wed love to talk.

• You love to scale highly complex distributed architectures and mentor engineering cohorts to elevate technical standards across an organization.
• Youre curious about pioneering low-latency inference optimizations and finding innovative shortcuts to optimize cost-per-token performance.
• Youre an expert in metrics-driven engineering troubleshooting micro-bottlenecks and delivering stable cloud platforms under strict multi-tenant constraints.

Why CoreWeave

At CoreWeave we work hard have fun and move fast! Were in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. Were not afraid of a little chaos and were constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff the organisations growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry who will want to learn from you too. Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is 321000 PLN to 428000 PLN gross annually. 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).

To fulfill our obligation to protect client data successful applicants offered employment with CoreWeave will be required to complete a basic criminal record check conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results

What We Offer

In addition to a competitive salary we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs including:

• Family-level Medical Insurance
• Family-level Dental Insurance
• Generous Pension Contribution
• Life Assurance at 4x Salary
• Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Work culture focused on innovative disruption

Benefits may vary by location.

Equal Opportunity

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.

Recruitment Agencies

CoreWeave does not accept speculative CVs. Any unsolicited CVs received will be treated as the property of CoreWeave and your Terms & Conditions associated with the use of CVs will be considered null and void.

Any unsolicited CVs sent by your company to us that is to say in any situation where we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy will be considered by us to be a free gift leaving us liable for no fees whatsoever should we choose to contact the candidate directly and engage the candidates services and will in no way establish any prior claim by your company to representation of that candidate should the candidates details also be submitted by any other party.

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.

Updated privacy notice - UK and EU Job Applications

When you apply to a job on this site the personal data contained in your application will be collected by CoreWeave UK Ltd. (Controller) which is located at

Phosphor (6th Floor) 133 Park Street London SE1 9EA

and can be contacted by emailing . Controllers data protection officer can be contacted at . Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Controllers recruitment related activities which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants evaluating and assessing the results thereto and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of (i) Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and (ii) the GDPR as it forms part of the laws of the UK (UK GDPR) as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller which are the solicitation evaluation and selection of applicants for employment. Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software Inc. a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controllers behalf. With respect to transfers originating from the UK or the European Economic Area (EEA) to a country outside the UK or the EEA we implement the appropriate transfer mechanism(s) and other appropriate solutions to address cross-border transfers as required by applicable law. You may request a copy of the suitable mechanisms we have in place by contacting us at

Your personal data will be retained by Controller as long as Controller determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment. Where permitted by applicable law we may also retain your personal data for a limited period after the recruitment process ends in order to consider you for future job opportunities respond to legal claims or comply with record-keeping obligations. Under the GDPR and the UK GDPR you have the right to request access to your personal data to request that your personal data be rectified or erased and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data addition you may lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority: (i) A list of Europes data protection authorities can be found here; and (ii) for the UK this is the Information Commissioners Office.

For additional information please see our .