Sr. Engineering Manager, Inference

CoreWeave is looking for a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead the core team for our next-generation Inference Platform.

What Youll Do:

As a Sr. Engineering Manager for the Inference team you will lead a team of senior and staff engineers building and operating CoreWeaves Kubernetes-native inference platform.

What Were Looking For

• 8 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services
• 3 years of engineering management experience including managing senior and staff-level engineers
• Track record owning a production service end to end including availability latency capacity and cost
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes at production scale including orchestration scheduling and service design
• Strong understanding of distributed systems networked services and performance under load; able to lead architecture and code review without owning the critical path
• Experience defining and defending SLIs/SLOs and error budgets and building the operational practice behind them
• Experience with multi-tenant platforms: isolation quota noisy-neighbor mitigation and fair sharing
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to create clarity in ambiguous or fast-scaling environment.
• Demonstrated track record of growing and promoting engineers including into senior and staff-level roles
• Experience running performance calibration and making accurate leveling decisions
• Experience managing underperformance directly and fairly as well as retaining top performers
• Experience building and owning a hiring bar and interview process for senior engineering roles

Platform & Service Expertise

• Experience operating low-latency high-throughput request-serving systems against strict P95/P99 targets
• Working knowledge of autoscaling load balancing admission control and traffic management at scale
• Experience with capacity planning and demand forecasting for constrained or expensive resources
• Familiarity with GPU-backed workloads and the scheduling and utilization trade-offs they introduce
• Progressive delivery practices canarying feature gating safe rollback for always on services

Nice to Have

• Experience operating a customer-facing cloud service or developer platform including API and control-plane design
• Familiarity with inference-serving stacks such as vLLM Triton TensorRT-LLM Ray Serve or TorchServe
• Experience operating multi-region fleets at a cloud provider or hyperscaler
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry)
• Experience scaling teams tooling and processes in a high-growth environment

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 build frictionless products for developers
• Youre curious about AI and MLOps tooling
• Youre an expert in building inference systems that scale for production workloads

Why Us

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 organizations 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 $188000 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. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• 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

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

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.