Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, acquired Weights & Biases to create a powerful end-to-end platform for AI development. The Engineering Manager for Launch & Sandboxes will lead a team responsible for cloud execution environments and job launching, ensuring reliable delivery and fostering team growth.
Responsibilities
- You'll be joining the ML Workflows organization as the Engineering Manager for the Launch & Sandboxes team
- Our team owns two interconnected product areas: Sandboxes, W&B's cloud execution environments that let ML practitioners run code in isolated, GPU-enabled containers directly from the W&B platform, and Launch, which handles job launching, compute orchestration, and integration with HPC schedulers
- We build the infrastructure that connects W&B's experiment tracking and model development tools to the actual compute where ML work happens, spanning Kubernetes clusters, HPC nodes, and cloud VMs
- As the Engineering Manager for Launch & Sandboxes, you'll be involved in the full product lifecycle, from ideation and roadmap shaping through delivery and being available for customers
- Your day-to-day will involve partnering with product management to prioritize across competing initiatives, unblocking your engineers on cross-team dependencies, and ensuring the team ships reliably while managing technical debt
- You'll need to be technically fluent enough to participate in architecture discussions around container orchestration, distributed authentication, and billing infrastructure, and you're not afraid to get your hands dirty when the team needs it
- At the same time, your primary focus is growing your engineers into autonomous leaders and technical decision-makers
- We're an AI-forward organization that embraces LLM-based coding tools and agentic workflows to accelerate development, and we'd expect you to champion that culture within your team
- This role carries a heavy customer and user focus: you'll stay close to how ML practitioners use the product and make sure that perspective drives your team's priorities
- Like any role at a hyperscaler, this comes with high accountability and ownership
- You'll own your team's outcomes end-to-end, from roadmap commitments through production reliability
- We expect engineering managers to make hard prioritization calls, hold the bar on engineering quality, and build teams that operate with autonomy and urgency
Skills
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of shipping infrastructure or platform products
- 5+ years of software engineering experience prior to management, with backend systems depth
- Technical fluency in Go, Python, and Kubernetes (you won't write code daily, but you need to review PRs, unblock architectural decisions, and understand production incidents)
- Experience managing teams that own distributed systems in production
- Demonstrated ability to balance product delivery with technical health (managing tech debt, reliability, on-call)
- Experience partnering with product managers to shape and prioritize a roadmap
- Track record of growing engineers across levels
- Strong communication skills with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, especially in newer product areas where scope is still being defined
- Experience with ML infrastructure, ML platforms, or developer tools for data scientists
- Familiarity with compute orchestration, job scheduling, or container isolation technologies
- Experience managing teams through a product area transition (e.g., early-stage to growth, or post-acquisition integration)
- Background in HPC or scientific computing environments
- Experience with billing systems, metering, or usage-based pricing infrastructure
- Founding experience or early-stage background where you took a product from idea to the hands of users
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
- 401(k) with a generous employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
- A casual work environment
- A work culture focused on innovative disruption
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