Senior Software Engineer (GPU & Runtime Systems)

Location: Livingston, NJ; Sunnyvale, CA; or Bellevue, WA. The role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information, so applicants must meet applicable U.S. person, authorization, or export-license eligibility requirements.

Salary: $153,000–$204,000 base salary per year, plus potential bonus, equity awards, and benefits.

Company

CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure, tools, and services for building and scaling AI workloads.

What you will do

• Design and implement secure execution environments for containerized and virtualized workloads.
• Build GPU-aware scheduling, isolation, and resource-management strategies for multi-tenant Kubernetes workloads.
• Optimize container, virtual-machine, and I/O performance for GPU-accelerated applications.
• Profile, benchmark, and tune runtime, virtualization, and GPU technology stacks.
• Contribute to architecture across Linux internals, container runtimes, virtualization layers, and GPU drivers.
• Collaborate with security, platform, and infrastructure teams on runtime isolation and performance standards.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in systems, platform, infrastructure, or production engineering at scale.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, cloud-native architectures, controllers, operators, or scheduling extensions.
• Experience designing, implementing, or operating secure execution environments, sandboxed workloads, or virtualized systems.
• Practical experience with lightweight virtualization and sandboxing technologies such as Kata Containers, gVisor, KubeVirt, or QEMU.
• Experience supporting GPU-accelerated workloads in multi-tenant environments, including GPU scheduling, isolation, device passthrough, mediated devices, or virtualization.
• Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Rust, or Bash, with strong Linux internals knowledge and experience diagnosing performance, reliability, and isolation issues.

Nice to have

• Experience safely executing untrusted or sensitive workloads in shared environments.
• Familiarity with GPU drivers, low-level virtualization, and I/O optimization.
• Experience defining threat models and implementing runtime security policies in multi-tenant systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, collaborative environment focused on innovative solutions and independent thinking.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave, plus life and disability insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, tuition reimbursement, and 401(k) with employer match.
• Paid parental leave, childcare support, family-forming support, mental wellness benefits, and flexible PTO.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program participation and catered lunches at office and data center locations.