Senior Specialist Field Engineer - HPC​/AI​/ML

Core Weave is The Essential Cloud for AI. Built for pioneers by pioneers, Core Weave 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, Core Weave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability.

Founded in 2017, Core Weave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at

What You'll Do:

The Customer Experience (CX) Organization at Core Weave 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 Core Weave product roadmap and development.

About the role:

As a Senior Specialist Field Engineer Core Weave, you will play a vital and dynamic role. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate thought leadership and engage hands-on throughout our customers' entire lifecycle. From establishing their Kubernetes environment to developing proofs of concept, onboarding, and optimizing workloads, you will lead innovation at every turn. If you're driven by innovation, thrilled by the possibilities of what specialized compute can enable, and eager to be part of a team that's shaping the future, then Core Weave is the place for you.

Join us and let's embark on this adventure together!

In this role, you will:

* Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers, establishing strong technical relationships and ensuring their success with Core Weave's cloud infrastructure offerings, focusing on AI/ML workloads 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 Core Weave'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 Core Weave's Kubernetes 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 Core Weave at conferences and industry events, with occasional travel as required.

Who You Are:

* 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 AI/ML inference

* 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

* Deep expertise  with NVIDIA GPUs typically used in AI/ML applications and associated technologies such as Infiniband and NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL)

* Demonstrated experience with running large scale Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) training and inference workloads on technologies such as Slurm and Kubernetes. You understand integration points between cloud solutions and enterprise IT

Preferred:

* Code contributions to open-source inference frameworks

* Experience with scripting and automation related to AI/ML workloads

* Experience with building solutions across multi-cloud environments

* Client or customer-facing publications/talks on latency, optimization, or advanced model-server architectures

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