Solutions Architect
CoreWeave- Base salary
- $165k–$220k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - Washington, D.C. Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Senior
About the job
About CoreWeave
CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™, a specialized cloud provider delivering massive-scale GPU compute on high-performance infrastructure. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. The company builds cloud solutions for compute-intensive use cases such as VFX and rendering, machine learning and AI, and batch processing.
Role Overview
CoreWeave Federal, the newest team within the Global Field Organization (GFO), brings CoreWeave's platform to U.S. government agencies, the Intelligence Community, and the Defense Industrial Base. The Account Solutions Architect, Federal is the named technical partner for U.S. government agencies across CoreWeave's full platform, spanning infrastructure to inference. In this role, you will work alongside federal customers to design AI workloads that meet mission requirements while aligning with federal AI compliance standards. You will lead proofs of concept end-to-end, partner with Account Executives and federal teams on technical strategy, and serve as the bridge between mission needs and engineering, security, and compliance organizations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the named technical partner for federal customers across CoreWeave's full platform
- Provide technical guidance on running AI workloads in regulated environments, including FedRAMP, DoD Impact Levels (IL2–IL6), and emerging AI-specific federal standards
- Represent the voice of the federal customer internally, distilling requirements, compliance gaps, and federal use case patterns back to Product, Security, and Engineering
- Build reference architectures and enablement content for federal engagements, raising the technical bar of the federal field organization as it scales
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship and an active U.S. government security clearance (Secret minimum; TS/SCI strongly preferred); must be eligible to obtain and maintain higher levels of clearance
- 5+ years in a solutions engineer, solutions architect, or technical field engineering role, with at least 3 years supporting federal customers
- Strong Python proficiency and hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying modern deep learning models, including LLMs; experience designing and deploying production agentic applications for real customer use cases
- Working knowledge of federal cybersecurity frameworks and authorization processes, plus familiarity running AI workloads on at least one major cloud platform (AWS/GovCloud, Azure/Government, or GCP/Government)
- Preferred: Active TS/SCI clearance, ideally with a current CI or Full Scope Polygraph
- Preferred: Familiarity with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch) and the modern LLM stack (vLLM, LangChain, LlamaIndex)
- Preferred: Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure for AI workloads, including GPU compute, high-performance networking, and storage
- Preferred: Experience using Slurm or Kubernetes for ML job orchestration, especially in air-gapped or classified environments
- Preferred: Background in ML Engineering, AI Engineering, MLOps, or LLMOps with public sector or defense customers
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $220,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. In addition to base salary, the total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility). Benefits for US-based full-time employees include: medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% 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, 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, and catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations.
Application Instructions
To apply, use the application link provided. For reasonable accommodation, contact careers@coreweave.com.
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