Sr. Engineering Manager, Inference

What Youll Do:

As a Senior Engineering Manager for the AI/ML Platform team you will lead the group responsible for productizing and operating our inference partnership with CoreWeave AI platform team you will ensure the service becomes a polished reliable developer-friendly product within the AI/ML Platform.

You will combine strong engineering leadership with clarity in execution helping the team deliver improvements that raise reliability accelerate development workflows and strengthen the overall inference experience for W&B users.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for evolving and operating the W&B Inference product focusing on service reliability orchestration operational maturity and developer experience.
  
  
• Drive execution on roadmap initiatives in close partnership with Product ensuring that platform capabilities are delivered predictably robustly and with measurable customer impact.
  
  
• Own the engineering processes for the inference productization layer including incident response operational readiness release management observability and engineering quality.
  
  
• Partner with CoreWeaves infrastructure teams to integrate capabilities from the underlying inference platform into a cohesive user-facing product.
  
  
• Guide the design and delivery of application-layer enhancements such as tracing and tool call handling.
  
  
• Ensure the inference offering meets high standards of reliability usability compliance and performance balancing trade-offs across cost operational load and architectural constraints.
  
  
• Create clarity in complex cross-functional environments ensuring strong communication aligned priorities and smooth execution across multiple teams.
• Build a culture of ownership technical excellence and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

Who You Are:

• 7 years of experience in software engineering including 3 years managing or leading engineering teams responsible for distributed systems developer platforms or large-scale services.
• Fluent in concepts related to distributed compute services including observability autoscaling patterns reliability engineering API design and service operations.
• Comfortable with competing priorities and making principled trade-offs among latency reliability cost and development velocity.
• Skilled at leading engineering teams through ambiguous multi-stakeholder projects with strong communication and alignment.
• Deep empathy for ML practitioners and platform developers with a drive to improve reliability reduce friction and elevate the developer experience.

Preferred

• Background in high-scale systems real-time APIs or cloud infrastructure ideally with exposure to model-serving or inference-adjacent domains.
  
  
• Background in related platform domains such as IAM billing/metering observability systems or deployment tooling.
  
  

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

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 provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff the growth opportunities within the organization 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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