Systems Engineer, Kernel
CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Systems Kernel Engineer to join our HAVOCK Team, reporting to the Manager of Systems Engineering. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the stability, performance, and evolution of CoreWeave’s Linux-based infrastructure. As a kernel generalist, you will be responsible for debugging kernel-level issues, analyzing and fixing crashes, panics, dumps, and upstreaming fixes and features that improve the performance and reliability of our stack. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in low-level systems engineering, understands how modern workloads stress kernels, and is excited to work across a diverse hardware/software ecosystem including CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, networking, and storage.
Key responsibilities include analyzing kernel crashes, oopses, panics, and dumps to identify root causes and propose fixes. You will develop patches for the Linux kernel and upstream them where applicable, focusing on areas such as networking, storage, virtualization, and GPU/DPU enablement. Ensuring kernel support and stability across virtualization platforms like KubeVirt, QEMU, and vFIO, as well as container runtimes such as containerd, nydus, and kubelet, will be essential. Additionally, you will support new hardware bring-up across Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, DPUs, and NICs, and tune kernel subsystems for latency, throughput, and scalability in distributed HPC/AI clusters.
The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of professional experience in Linux kernel engineering or systems-level development. A deep understanding of kernel internals, including memory management, scheduling, networking, storage, and drivers, is required. Experience debugging kernel crashes, dumps, and panics using tools like crash, gdb, and kdump is essential. Strong C programming skills with the ability to write maintainable and upstream-quality code are necessary, along with experience working with kernel modules, drivers, and subsystems. Strong problem-solving abilities with a full-stack systems perspective are also important.
The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid 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 the 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, and a work culture focused on innovative disruption.
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