Principal Engineer - Perf and Benchmarking
CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA | Bellevue, WA · Technology
About this role
CoreWeave is hiring a staff-level Staff Engineer in the software engineering function based in Sunnyvale, CA | Bellevue, WA. The posting calls out experience with C, CUDA, Spring, Kubernetes. Compensation is listed at $206,000–$333,000 per year.
- Role
- Staff Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA | Bellevue, WA
- Department
- Technology
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Job description
from CoreWeave careersAbout this role
We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to be the technical lead of CoreWeave’s Benchmarking & Performance team. You will be responsible for our planet-scale performance data warehouse: Ingesting, storing, transforming and analyzing performance events in all the data centers across our global infrastructure.
You will also be an integral part of achieving industry-leading end-to-end performance benchmarking publications: If MLPerf (Training & Inference), Working closely with NVIDIA (Megatron-LM, TensorRT-LLM & DGX cloud) and the open-source community (llm-d, vLLM and all popular ML frameworks) speak to you, come help us demonstrate CoreWeave’s performance reliability leadership in the field.
What you’ll do
- Strategy & Leadership - Define the multi-year benchmarking strategy and roadmap; prioritize models/workloads (LLMs, diffusion, vision, speech) and hardware tiers. Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of performance engineers and data analysts. Establish governance for claims: documented methodologies, versioning, reproducibility, and audit trails.