Senior Systems Engineer, Virtualization

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.

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.

This team focuses on the execution layer beneath Kubernetes. 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 work spans multiple abstraction layers. One day you might be debugging a kernel memory-management issue affecting VFIO device passthrough; 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. We value engineers who enjoy understanding how systems behave from the hardware up rather than treating infrastructure as a black box.

• Design secure execution environments using containerd, runc, gVisor, Kata Containers, KubeVirt, and KVM/QEMU.

• Build GPU-aware runtime infrastructure supporting VFIO, Kata, NVIDIA GPU Operator, and PCIe passthrough for multi-tenant AI workloads.

• 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.

• Develop observability and debugging tooling using eBPF, perf, tracepoints, and kernel tracing infrastructure.

• Improve container and VM startup performance, resource isolation, and runtime efficiency for latency-sensitive AI inference and training workloads.

• Extend virtualization infrastructure supporting virtio devices, IOMMU, SR-IOV, mediated devices, nested virtualization, and hardware passthrough.

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