Engineering Manager, Hardware Engineering

CoreWeave is a specialized cloud provider, delivering a massive scale of GPU compute resources on top of the industry’s fastest and most flexible infrastructure. CoreWeave builds cloud solutions for compute intensive use cases — VFX and rendering, machine learning and AI, batch processing, and Pixel Streaming — that are up to 35 times faster and 80% less expensive than the large, generalized public clouds. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.

CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated manager to join our Hardware Engineering Team, reporting to the Director of Compute Architecture. In this role you will support the Hardware Engineering (METAL) team. METAL is responsible for hardware design, test, validation, automation, sustaining support and hardware failure analysis.

You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the team’s roadmap, creating a hiring plan to grow the team, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, managing the team’s day to day workloads and working closely with CoreWeave hardware vendors on advanced failure analysis. 

Your Responsibilities:

• Build and lead distributed teams who are focused on rapidly delivering high quality results
• Manage day to day workloads, sprints, long term project planning
• Identify opportunities to improve process flows and speed through systems and tools
• Develop measurable goals for teams, and ensure alignment across teams to deliver
• Facilitate constructive communication across all teams, and provide coaching and counseling to team leads by mentoring, one-on-one meetings, and regular performance feedback
• Work closely with recruiting team to attract and evaluate talent

Team Responsibilities:

• Provide sustaining hardware and software support to internal teams
• Develop and maintain tooling to support CoreWeave’s hardware/firmware automation and monitoring
• Perform hardware failure analysis and track RMAs with hardware vendors
• Serve as a senior point of contact for hardware issue escalation and troubleshooting
• Create and maintain accurate documentation of hardware designs, specifications, test procedures, and results

Requirements:

• A passion for leading emerging teams in a fast-paced environment
• Experience coaching and managing other leaders, and senior level staff that work on challenging issues and solutions that are scalable and executed rapidly
• Prior success in creating processes and developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, sales and product groups
• Enthusiasm for staffing, interviewing, growing and retaining talent
• Prior experience managing operational teams
• Passionate about operational excellence
• Excellent communication and organization skills to drive cross-disciplinary collaboration 
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional attention to detail and follow-up

Nice-to-haves:

• Prior experience managing distributed teams of a mix of hardware and software engineers
• Prior experience working upstream with open source projects
• Strong JIRA experience

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $210,000-$225,000 annually. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Hybrid Workplace

Successful candidates will be expected to attend onboarding training at our NJ Headquarters within their first several weeks of employment, with subsequent quarterly travel requirements of 1 week duration.

If you reside within a 30-mile radius of our New Jersey, New York, or Philadelphia offices, we're excited for you to join us at the office at least three times a week, recognizing the significance we place on fostering connections, collaboration, and creativity within our office culture. Our commitment to operating as a hybrid workplace underscores our dedication to enabling our employees to tailor their work-life balance to their individual preferences.