Full Time: Systems Engineering Senior

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave 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, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. What You'll Do:HAVOCK builds the software stack that bridges AI workloads and bare metal. We own the operating system, virtualization, runtime, and hardware interfaces that allow thousands of GPU servers to securely execute customer workloads at hyperscale.We build the systems that provide strong workload isolation, efficient GPU sharing, and high-performance execution across containers and lightweight virtual machines. Our work spans Linux, KVM, container runtimes, GPU drivers, and Kubernetes, ensuring customers can safely run demanding AI workloads on shared infrastructure without sacrificing performance.As a Senior Software Engineer on HAVOCK's Runtime & Virtualization team, you'll design and build the execution environment that powers CoreWeave's AI platform. This is fundamentally a Linux systems engineering role where you'll work across the Linux kernel, KVM/QEMU, container runtimes, GPU drivers, and Kubernetes to solve problems that don't have off-the-shelf solutions.You'll develop secure sandboxed runtimes for GPU workloads, extend virtualization technologies to support new hardware capabilities, optimize the interaction between Linux, hypervisors, and NVIDIA GPUs, and build the tooling that helps engineers understand what's happening across the entire software stack.the next you might be improving container startup latency, extending KubeVirt to support new GPU workflows, or building eBPF tooling to diagnose production networking and scheduling problems. Improve Linux kernel and hypervisor performance through optimization of scheduling, memory management, I/O, NUMA locality, and virtualization primitives.Debug complex interactions across Linux, KVM, GPU drivers, firmware, and Kubernetes when workloads don't behave as expected.Improve container and VM startup performance, resource isolation, and runtime efficiency for latency-sensitive AI inference and training workloads.Profile production systems and build performance analysis tooling to identify bottlenecks across kernels, hypervisors, container runtimes, storage, networking, and GPUs.Collaborate with security, platform, networking, and GPU infrastructure teams to define the next generation of runtime isolation and workload execution.Who You Are:5+ years building production systems software, platform infrastructure, virtualization, or Linux-based distributed systems.Strong Linux systems knowledge, including namespaces, cgroups, scheduling, memory management, filesystems, networking, and process lifecycle.Experience building or operating Kubernetes platforms and container runtimes at scale.Strong systems programming skills in Go, Rust, C/C++, or a combination thereof.Experience profiling and optimizing system performance using tools such as perf, eBPF, ftrace, bpftrace, flame graphs, or crash analysis.Preferred:Linux kernel development or kernel module experience.Experience contributing to Linux, KVM, QEMU, Kata Containers, gVisor, containerd, or Kubernetes.Experience building systems that safely execute untrusted workloads in shared environments.We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility). These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeaveCompany-paid Life Insurance Voluntary supplemental life insurance Short and long-term disability insurance Flexible Spending AccountHealth Savings AccountTuition Reimbursement Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health Family-Forming support provided by CarrotPaid Parental Leave Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside401(k) with a generous employer matchFlexible PTOCatered lunch each day in our office and data center locationsA casual work environmentA work culture focused on innovative disruptionCalifornia ApplicantsCalifornia Consumer Privacy Act Equal Opportunity & AccommodationsCoreWeave 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.As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. Export Control ComplianceThis position requires access to export controlled information. S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.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.