Senior Manager, Field Engineering

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<div class="content-intro"><div> <div> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div><span id="m_1770241969069985273m_-2746164444908759431gmail-docs-internal-guid-131e4fb0-7fff-b4e9-ff50-e8cf32449b1b">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 <a href="http://www.coreweave.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.coreweave.com&source=gmail&ust=1762613132717000&usg=AOvVaw3D-UOhNaqEvF5BEWxjYyAU">www.coreweave.com</a>.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <p>The <strong>Field Engineering organization</strong> at CoreWeave is dedicated to ensuring every customer 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. Field Engineering aligns closely with internal and customer engineering teams, offering valuable insights from the field and the chance to shape the CoreWeave product roadmap and development.</p> <p><strong>About the role:</strong></p> <p>We are on the hunt for an exceptional <strong>Senior Manager, Specialist Field Engineering</strong> to lead a regional team of subject matter experts across <strong>Kubernetes, Storage, High-Performance Computing, Networking, Security, and Compute Infrastructure</strong>. Together, this team will design and deliver next-generation environments that power the world's most demanding workloads.</p> <p>This role works closely with leaders across <strong>Specialist Field Engineering, Technical Support Engineering, Sales, and Product Engineering</strong>. If you are passionate about advanced infrastructure and have a proven ability to <strong>hire, mentor, and inspire</strong> technical talent—then we'd love to hear from you!</p> <p><strong>In this role, you will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Recruit, coach, and lead a high-performing Specialist Field Engineering team with deep expertise across Kubernetes, Storage, High-Performance Computing, Networking, Security, and Compute Infrastructure, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.</li> <li>Define and execute the regional technical go-to-market strategy, partnering with Sales, Product Engineering, and Marketing to position CoreWeave as the market leader in performance, flexibility, and scalability.</li> <li>Act as executive sponsor for the region's most strategic and technically complex accounts, guiding customers from initial concept through large-scale architectures, proofs of concept, and production deployments. Your specialists bring deep technical firepower alongside the account team—the Account Executive or Account Manager and the Account Solutions Architect—who stay in the thread end to end.</li> <li>Partner closely with customers to understand complex AI and infrastructure requirements and translate them into scalable, production-ready solutions.</li> <li>Align capacity management, data center operations, and fleet operations to support the unique demands of AI and high-performance workloads.</li> <li>Establish key performance indicators, streamline workflows, and coordinate with Technical Support Engineering to ensure measurable outcomes, rapid issue resolution, and an exceptional customer experience.</li> <li>Drive continuous improvement by channeling field feedback—alongside your Specialist Field Engineers and Product Engineering—into product enhancements, roadmap priorities, and operational excellence in a high-growth environment.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field</li> </ul> <ul> <li>8+ years in solutions architecture, field engineering, infrastructure engineering, or cloud services, with a<strong>t least 4 years in a leadership role</strong></li> <li>Proven track record designing, deploying, and optimizing large-scale environments spanning cloud native technologies</li> <li>Familiarity with GPU-based computing and distributed workloads is a strong plus</li> <li>Expertise in <strong>infrastructure frameworks, workload orchestration, performance tuning, and distributed systems</strong></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Strong knowledge of <strong>Kubernetes</strong>, <strong>networking technologies</strong>, <strong>security practices</strong>, and <strong>enterprise storage systems</strong></li> <li>Hands-on familiarity with distributed cloud-native and AI/ML workloads on GPU-based computing at scale</li> <li>Exceptional ability to <strong>lead, inspire, and develop high-performing teams</strong>, building an environment of trust and excellence</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to frame…