Staff Engineer, Benchmarking & Performance at CoreWeave

Compensation

$188,000 – $275,000/yr

Setup: Remote, Hybrid
Location: Beverly Hills, California
Type: Full-time
Level: Principal
Posted: Dec 23, 2025

Description

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead their Benchmarking & Performance team. This role involves managing a planet-scale performance data warehouse, ingesting, storing, transforming, and analyzing performance events across global infrastructure. The Staff Engineer will also be crucial in achieving industry-leading end-to-end performance benchmarking publications, working with NVIDIA and the open-source community to demonstrate CoreWeave’s performance reliability.

Required Skills

Distributed Systems
HPC/Cloud Services
ML Training
Data Systems
GPU Performance
Kubernetes
ML Control Planes

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 10+ years building distributed systems or HPC/cloud services, with deep expertise on large-scale ML training or similar high-performance workloads.
Proven track record of architecting or building planet-scale data systems (e.g., telemetry platforms, observability stacks, cloud data warehouses, large-scale OLAP engines).
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with time-series databases, log-structured merge trees (LSM), or custom storage engine development.
Experience running MLPerf submissions (Inference and/or Training) or equivalent audited benchmarks at scale.
Contributions to MLPerf, Triton, vLLM, PyTorch, KServe, or similar OSS projects.
Experience benchmarking multi-region fleets and large clusters (thousands of GPUs).
Publications/talks on ML performance, latency engineering, or large-scale benchmarking methodology.

About CoreWeave

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