Principal Engineer, Cluster Orchestration

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Salary

$206K-$303K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

118% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Principal From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

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About this role

Principal Engineer, Cluster Orchestration Bellevue, WA / Sunnyvale, CA CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com . About the Role CoreWeave runs some of the largest GPU clusters in the world. The AI infrastructure behind those clusters determines how workloads are placed, how resources are shared, and how reliably systems perform under constant pressure. As a Principal Engineer in AI Infrastructure, you will lead the design and evolution of the cluster orchestration systems that make this possible. This includes Slurm, Kubernetes, SUNK, and the control planes that support AI training, inference, and model onboarding at scale. You will define long-term architecture, solve hard scaling problems, and set technical direction across teams. Your work will directly affect how quickly customers can run models, how efficiently we use GPUs, and how reliably the platform behaves at scale. What You'll Do Architecture and Technical Direction - Define the long-term architecture for CoreWeave's orchestration platforms across Kubernetes, Slurm, SUNK, Kueue, and related systems. - Act as a technical authority on scheduling, quota enforcement, fairness, pre-emption, and multi-tenant GPU isolation. - Make design decisions that balance performance,

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