Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Networking

About the role

The Customer Experience (CX) Organization at CoreWeave is dedicated to ensuring every client running AI workloads at scale has a seamless, reliable, and high-performance experience. This team supports the infrastructure that powers the AI revolution—working across data centers, hardware systems, and customer workloads to maintain the integrity of our cloud platform. The CX organization aligns closely with the internal and customer engineering teams, offering valuable insights from the field and having the chance to contribute to the CoreWeave product roadmap and development.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers, establishing strong technical relationships and ensuring their success with CoreWeave's cloud infrastructure offerings, focusing on networking technologies within high-performance compute (HPC) environments.
• Collaborate closely with customers to understand their unique business needs and create, prototype, and deploy tailored solutions that align with their requirements.
• Lead proof of concept initiatives to showcase the value and viability of CoreWeave's solutions within specific environments.
• Drive technical leadership and direction during customer meetings, presentations, and workshops, addressing any technical queries or concerns that arise.
• Act as a virtual member of CoreWeave's Networking product and engineering teams, identifying opportunities for product enhancement and collaborating with engineers to implement your suggestions.
• Offer valuable insights on product features, functionality, and performance, contributing regularly to discussions about product strategy and architecture.
• Conduct periodic technical reviews and assessments of customer workloads, pinpointing opportunities for workload optimization and suggesting suitable solutions.
• Stay informed of the latest developments and trends in Kubernetes, cloud computing and infrastructure, sharing your thought leadership with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Lead the prototyping and initiation of research and development efforts for emerging products and solutions, delivering prototypes and key insights for internal consumption.
• Represent CoreWeave at conferences and industry events, with occasional travel as required.

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of proven experience as a Solutions Architect, Field Engineer, Engineer, Researcher, or Technical Account Manager in Cloud Infrastructure focusing on building distributed systems or HPC/cloud services, with an expertise focused on infrastructure networking.
• Fluency in cloud computing concepts, architecture, and technologies with hands-on experience in designing and implementing cloud solutions
• Proven track record with building customer relationships, communicating clearly and the ability to break down complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise with a broad range of networking technologies and topics, with a familiarity to understand the needs and use cases is it relates to securing and enabling high performance networking environments.
• Experience with managing infrastructure networking, Kubernnetes CSI management, and private networking concepts
• Familiar with NVIDIA GPUs typically used in AI/ML applications and associated technologies such as Infiniband and NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL)
• Preferred Code contributions to open-source inference frameworks
• Experience with scripting and automation related to network technologies
• Experience with building solutions across multi-cloud environments
• Client or customer-facing publications/talks on latency, optimization, or advanced model-server architectures

Qualifications

• Curiosity about the latest and greatest technologies in the AI space
• Love to help solve challenging technical problems
• Expertise in managing conflict and achieving mutually beneficial technical outcomes

Skills

• Cloud Computing Concepts
• Networking Technologies
• High Performance Computing (HPC)
• Kubernetes
• NVIDIA GPUs
• Infiniband
• NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL)
• Open Source Frameworks
• Scripting and Automation
• Multi-Cloud Environments

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $220,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation.

Schedule

CoreWeave offers a flexible schedule to accommodate the needs of our employees.