HPC Performance Engineer

Skip to main content HPC Performance Engineer CoreWeave Sunnyvale, CA Apply Join or sign in to find your next job Join to apply for the HPC Performance Engineer role at CoreWeave Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. HPC Performance Engineer CoreWeave Sunnyvale, CA 6 days ago 120 applicants See who CoreWeave has hired for this role Apply Join or sign in to find your next job Join to apply for the HPC Performance Engineer role at CoreWeave Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. Save Report this job 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. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.What You'll DoCoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated HPC Performance Engineer to join our HAVOCK Team, reporting into the Manager of Systems Engineering. In this role, you will play a crucial part in the design, development, and optimization of our bare-metal systems from POST through joining a Kubernetes cluster. The team’s primary responsibilities include maintaining a custom Linux kernel, various OS images (Ubuntu-based), the virtualization stack (kubevirt/qemu/vfio), and the container/pod runtime stack (containerd/nydus/kubelet). You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, up stack engineering teams, and stakeholders to ensure our low-level software stack is performant in the context of hardware updates; and providing data, metrics, dashboards, and analysis to substantiate performance assertions.Kernel Hardware - Acceleration - Virtualization - Operating Systems - Containerization - KubeletOur Team’s StackPython, Go, bash/sh, CPrometheus, Victoria Metrics, GrafanaLinux Kernel (custom build), UbuntuIntel/AMD/ARM CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, DPUs, Infiniband and Ethernet NICsDocker, kubernetes (k8s), KubeVirt, containerd, kubeletAbout The RoleDevelop and maintain tools for establishing systems performance baselines Develop and maintain performance regression analysis testing automationDesign and maintain performance regression test pipelines for HPC workloadsDebug...