Senior Software Engineer II (IC4), AI Workload Orchestration

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer II (IC4), AI Workload Orchestration role is onsite in Sunnyvale, CA, with a base salary of $182,000–$242,000 per year. The role supports CoreWeave’s AI Workload Orchestration Platform team, building cloud infrastructure for AI workloads. The engineer designs and operates Kubernetes-native orchestration services, owns platform components, and improves scheduling performance, cluster utilization, and reliability. The work helps the platform scale to meet customer demand and increasingly complex AI workloads.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native AI workload orchestration and scheduling services
• own platform components through design, implementation, testing, and on-call support
• improve scheduling latency, cluster utilization, and reliability using metrics
• contribute to architecture decisions
• coordinate integrations with adjacent teams
• mentor junior engineers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

ai workload orchestration

kubernetes

go

distributed systems

cloud infrastructure

scheduling

ai workloads

sunnyvale ca

coreweave

$182k–$242k/year

on-call rotation

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by the company
• life and disability insurance
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• tuition reimbursement
• employee stock purchase program
• mental wellness and family-forming support
• paid parental leave
• childcare support
• 401(k) match
• flexible PTO
• catered lunch.

Why this role

Works with Kubernetes-native frameworks including Kueue, Volcano, and Ray; supports AI training and inference workloads.

About the employer

CoreWeave is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.