Engineering Manager, Launch & Sandboxes (AI)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager, Launch & Sandboxes (AI): Managing the Launch & Sandboxes team, which owns cloud execution environments and job launching infrastructure, with an accent on connecting experiment tracking and model development tools to compute resources. Focus on container orchestration, distributed authentication, and billing infrastructure while growing engineers into autonomous leaders.

Location: Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / San Francisco, CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA / Remote, US. 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.

Salary: $165,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

Company

hirify.global, acquired by CoreWeave, provides an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and iterating AI faster, trusted by over 1,500 organizations.

What you will do

• Partner with product management to prioritize initiatives and unblock engineers on cross-team dependencies.
• Ensure the team ships reliably while managing technical debt.
• Participate in architecture discussions around container orchestration, distributed authentication, and billing infrastructure.
• Grow engineers into autonomous leaders and technical decision-makers.
• Champion an AI-forward culture within the team, embracing LLM-based coding tools and agentic workflows.
• Stay close to how ML practitioners use the product and make sure that perspective drives your team's priorities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of shipping infrastructure or platform products.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience prior to management, with backend systems depth.
• Technical fluency in Go, Python, and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing teams that own distributed systems in production.
• Demonstrated ability to balance product delivery with technical health (managing tech debt, reliability, on-call).
• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must either be a U.S. person or eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience with ML infrastructure, ML platforms, or developer tools for data scientists.
• Familiarity with compute orchestration, job scheduling, or container isolation technologies.
• Experience managing teams through a product area transition (e.g., early-stage to growth, or post-acquisition integration).
• Background in HPC or scientific computing environments.
• Experience with billing systems, metering, or usage-based pricing infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave.
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account.
• Flexible PTO.
• A casual work environment and a work culture focused on innovative disruption.
• 401(k) with a generous employer match.
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations.