Technical Program Manager - Performance & Benchmarking

About the role

The AI/ML TPM team owns delivery and execution across CoreWeave's AI/ML Platform Services organization. The team partners closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Infrastructure, and Go-to-Market teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performance platforms that support the full AI lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end program execution for performance and benchmarking initiatives spanning infrastructure validation, performance testing, benchmark execution, observability, and launch readiness
• Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to deliver programs that verify new hardware platforms, clusters, and software environments meet CoreWeave standards for performance and stability
• Operationalize benchmarking frameworks that measure model performance, runtime efficiency, GPU utilization, and workload reliability across environments
• Coordinate dependencies across platform engineering, infrastructure, capacity, product, and go-to-market teams to ensure performance findings are translated into roadmap priorities, customer readiness, and external proof points
• Create program mechanisms for release readiness, benchmark planning, risk management, issue escalation, and post-launch review for performance-sensitive infrastructure initiatives
• Build dashboards, operating cadences, and success metrics to improve performance visibility, infrastructure validation coverage, benchmark repeatability, and time-to-readiness for new platforms
• Help drive prioritization across performance bottlenecks, test gaps, and benchmark requests by aligning stakeholders on goals, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes
• Create clarity across ambiguous technical programs by aligning teams around performance goals, validation criteria, and execution milestones

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

5+ years of technical program management experience in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, high-performance computing, or AI/ML platforms

Strong technical fluency in distributed systems, GPU or accelerator-based infrastructure, workload performance measurement, and large-scale infrastructure operations

Demonstrated ability to define program metrics and drive measurable outcomes in performance, reliability, scale, or operational maturity

Excellent communication skills, with experience influencing engineering, product, and infrastructure stakeholders

Experience with AI/ML benchmarking, performance analysis, or infrastructure validation for training and inference workloads

Familiarity with GPU cluster architecture, workload observability, hardware bring-up, and performance bottleneck analysis

Understanding of benchmarking methodologies, reproducibility, test coverage, and the tradeoffs between performance, stability, utilization, and customer readiness

Experience building launch processes, release governance, dependency management, and operational review mechanisms in fast-scaling environments

Familiarity with translating technical performance data into actionable decisions for product, customer, or go-to-market audiences

Qualifications

Wondering if you're a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match.

Skills

We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• 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

What We Offer

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C.1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.