Systems Engineer, Kernel
Core
Debugging kernel-level issues, analyzing crashes/panics, and upstreaming fixes to ensure stability and performance of CoreWeave's Linux-based AI infrastructure.
Role type
Senior IC Systems Kernel Engineer
Builds
Linux kernel stack for HPC/AI workloads across CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, and networking
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / AI Compute / Low-level Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Linux kernel internals, C programming, kernel debugging (crash, gdb, kdump), driver development, virtualization, container runtimes, networking stack, HPC/AI workloads
Preferred skills
Open-source contributions, GPU/DPU bring-up, InfiniBand/RoCE tuning, QA/QE best practices, cloud environments, machine learning
Technologies
Linux Kernel, Ubuntu, Python, Go, bash/sh, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Grafana, Intel/AMD/ARM CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, DPUs, Infiniband, Ethernet NICs, Docker, Kubernetes, KubeVirt, containerd, kubelet, CUDA, GPUDirect
Responsibilities
Triage and fix kernel crashes and performance regressions; Develop, test, and upstream kernel patches; Collaborate with hardware vendors and the Linux community; Implement diagnostics and tooling for kernel-level observability; Work with HPC and Fleet teams for production readiness; Provide kernel-level expertise during incident response
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
