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Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
CoreWeave’s Inference team builds and operates the core cloud platform powering massive-scale GPU workloads for AI/ML, VFX, rendering, and real-time inference. Our stack is engineered for speed, scale, and cost efficiency—providing a powerful alternative to traditional hyperscalers where infrastructure is our core product operated at massive scale.
About the role:
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Inference team, you will operate as a technical leader across multiple teams and services, driving architecture, performance, and reliability for CoreWeave’s Kubernetes-native inference platform. You will define and lead complex, cross-cutting design initiatives spanning request routing, adaptive scheduling, GPU resource management, and cost-per-token optimisation under strict P99 SLAs. In this high-impact role, you will implement advanced inference optimisations—such as speculative decoding and KV-cache reuse—while establishing performance benchmarking frameworks, guiding cross-functional alignment across infrastructure boundaries, and raising the bar for engineering rigour and observability practices across the organisation.
Preferred:
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.
At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take-off, the organisation's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!
At CoreWeave, base pay is only one part of our total compensation package. Total compensation includes base salary, equity, flexible vacation policy, and comprehensive benefits. 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.
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What We Offer
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
Benefits may vary by location.
Equal Opportunity
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.
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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.
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