C

CoreWeave

Rents GPU cloud computing for AI developers

Principal Solution Specialist - Infrastructure

Full-Time
$207k - $275k/yr+ Discretionary bonus + Equity awards
Expert
Bachelor's
San Francisco, CA, USA+2 moreMore locations: Bellevue, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Remote
Sales & Account ManagementSales Operations

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 10 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure sales, deal structuring, or commercial operations at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, data center operator, or large-scale technology vendor, with a track record of closing large, complex deals.
  • At least 5 years of experience owning or shaping the commercial structure of large infrastructure commitments, including cloud compute agreements, GPU infrastructure contracts, data center agreements, or equivalent, spanning term negotiation, pricing strategy, and contract execution in a customer-facing capacity.
  • Deep understanding of how AI companies evaluate, procure, and operationalize infrastructure, including the technical, financial, and organizational dynamics that drive those decisions across industries.
  • Fluency across GPU compute, high-performance networking, storage, and Kubernetes platforms, and strong working knowledge of how these components combine into integrated infrastructure commitments for AI customers.
  • Proven ability to drive alignment across sales, operations, finance, and legal in a deal-structuring capacity while managing complex internal stakeholder environments.
  • Track record of engaging at the executive level with customers, C-suite and vice-president-level procurement, and legal leadership in complex, multi-stakeholder commercial negotiations involving significant contract values.
  • Commercial fluency across long-term commitment economics, ramp schedules, service-level agreement frameworks, and the financial tradeoffs that shape large infrastructure agreements.
Responsibilities
  • Own the end-to-end commercial and operational lifecycle of complex infrastructure deals globally, from initial deal architecture through term negotiation, contract execution, and account expansion.
  • Structure and close large-scale infrastructure commitments, including long-term compute and networking agreements and integrated AI platform deals, in coordination with sales, legal, finance, and product teams.
  • Design deal frameworks, pricing models, and term structures that balance customer requirements for resource access, cost predictability, and operational flexibility with commercial objectives.
  • Own the deal desk function for infrastructure commitments by providing real-time deal guidance, commercial structuring support, and pricing alignment to the global field team.
  • Enable sales and solutions architecture organizations with infrastructure deal playbooks, term negotiation frameworks, total cost of ownership models, and competitive positioning materials.
  • Engage directly with customer procurement, legal, and executive leadership as the primary commercial voice in complex, multi-stakeholder infrastructure negotiations.
  • Partner with product specialists across Core Services, AI Runtime, AI Developer Services, and Data Services to build integrated deal proposals.
  • Translate customer conversations into input for product, engineering, capacity planning, finance, and marketing teams.
  • Drive operational improvements in infrastructure deal cycles, including pipeline visibility, deal review cadences, escalation paths, and post-signature execution handoffs.
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior experience in a deal desk, commercial operations, or strategic deals function at a cloud provider or hyperscaler such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or Oracle Cloud.
  • Background in AI infrastructure procurement or sales, including experience structuring GPU infrastructure agreements, high-performance computing contracts, or large-scale cloud commitments for AI or machine-learning workloads.
  • Experience building and scaling deal processes, including playbooks, approval workflows, and pricing frameworks, for a distributed field organization.
  • Advanced degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience operating across commercial strategy, technical infrastructure, and operational execution.

About the company

CoreWeave rents cloud computing to AI labs and businesses that train models and run them in production for research and commercial applications. Its platform combines NVIDIA graphics chips, storage, networking, and software built for demanding AI workloads across connected clusters scaled to fit each project. CoreWeave Forge connects tools for tracking experiments, testing models, and improving AI systems using feedback from production. Customers rent computing capacity through committed contracts or usage charges, while managed services handle the infrastructure needed to keep large workloads running. CoreWeave was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Livingston, New Jersey

Founded

2017

Get referred to CoreWeave

See people who can refer or advise you

Simplify Jobs

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Demand is compounding: August 2026 results showed CoreWeave quarterly revenue more than doubled to $2.58 billion.
  • Contracts support expansion: CoreWeave reported $104 billion of June 2026 backlog, subject to service delivery.
  • Eligible U.S. employees buy discounted equity: CoreWeave's purchase plan prices shares 15% below the lower opening or closing price.

What critics are saying

  • Customer losses threaten stability: three buyers supplied 72% of CoreWeave's Q2 2026 revenue.
  • Borrowing consumes revenue: CoreWeave's net interest expense reached $640 million in Q2 2026, reported in August 2026.
  • Afton technicians face urgent callouts: CoreWeave requires onsite emergency response within 60 minutes during scheduled on-call shifts.

What makes CoreWeave unique

  • Hardware access stays direct: CoreWeave runs Kubernetes on bare metal, without a virtualization layer.
  • Support skips nontechnical handoffs: CoreWeave says customers reach engineers cross-trained across its stack directly.
  • Top AI labs use CoreWeave: the company says nine of ten leading foundation model providers rely on its cloud.

Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Mental Health Support
  • Family Planning Benefits
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • 401(k) Company Match

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-3%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

-2%
Yahoo Finance
Oct 22nd, 2026
Fidelity's Timmer says AI bubble risk lies in debt, as CoreWeave bond yields top 15%

Fidelity's director of global macro, Jurrien Timmer, says any AI bubble may sit in debt markets rather than stocks. Yields on bonds from AI cloud provider CoreWeave topped 15% last week, even as equity valuations fall. Timmer compared CoreWeave's yield with a Bloomberg index of junk-rated telecom bonds from the 1998 to 2000 boom. In that era, the warning came from debt, not dot-com stocks. Highly rated AI borrowers still look stable, he said. CoreWeave's 2031 notes yielded 15.78% last Thursday. Its debt rose from $21 billion at the end of 2025 to $35 billion by June 30, and net interest expense of $640 million took about a quarter of second-quarter revenue. Chief executive officer Mike Intrator said its backlog, near $104 billion, more than covers its debt.

Business Wire
Oct 21st, 2026
CoreWeave launches Zero Trust AI Framework to give customers control of models and data

CoreWeave (Nasdaq: CRWV) has launched the CoreWeave Zero Trust AI Framework, a security model that lets customers control access to their models, data, and runtime environments. It was unveiled at NVIDIA GTC Berlin. Customers can bring their own security systems to CoreWeave Cloud instead of rebuilding around the provider's model. The framework has six layers: customer-held encryption keys, customer-approved support access, hardware-based infrastructure verification, confidential computing for data in use, a pledge not to train on customer data, and encrypted network traffic. CoreWeave plans to add NVIDIA's third-generation Confidential Computing, including on HGX Rubin NVL8, which arrives on CoreWeave Cloud in Q4 2026. "The Zero Trust AI Framework replaces assurances with architecture," said Chen Goldberg, executive vice president of product and engineering at CoreWeave.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 21st, 2026
Musk calls AI capacity glut talk "ridiculous", lifting CoreWeave and Nebius after SpaceX's $14.58B quarter

Elon Musk lifted neocloud stocks a week after hurting them, saying talk of excess AI infrastructure capacity is "ridiculous." He spoke on SpaceX's earnings call late Tuesday. "I do not think we are going to have a demand issue here," Musk said. He added that a six-month payback period for compute next year is not impossible. Last week, Musk replied "Yikes" on X to a post about rising yields on CoreWeave's bonds, which helped fuel a sell-off in CoreWeave and Nebius shares. In pre-market trading Wednesday, CoreWeave and Nebius each gained 2%, and IREN rose 3%. SpaceX's third-quarter revenue was $14.58 billion, up 161% year over year and above analyst estimates of $12.7 billion. Earnings per share were $0.35, $0.20 ahead of forecasts.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 21st, 2026
CoreWeave stock down 56.9% in a year: why waiting until November may pay off

CoreWeave shares have fallen 56.9% over the past twelve months, while the S&P 500 returned 17.4%. The AI cloud company more than doubled its revenue in that time. The stock now trades at $61.12, near its lowest close of the year. The business has swung from a 6.3% operating margin to a 3.0% operating loss. It generated $6.9 billion in operating cash but free cash flow was negative $13.7 billion, and total debt equals 153.2% of market value. Revenue backlog reached $104.2 billion, up 246% year on year. CoreWeave raised its 2026 revenue guide to $12.4 billion to $13.2 billion. Analysts expect third-quarter revenue of $3.62 billion, just above the company's $3.45 billion to $3.6 billion guide. Results are due around November 11, 2026.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 20th, 2026
Cathie Wood buys $8M of CoreWeave after 30% slide, sells $3.6M of Palantir

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest bought about $8 million of CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) and sold about $3.6 million of Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR). The trades, made on October 19, involved 132,498 CoreWeave shares bought and 18,349 Palantir shares sold. CoreWeave shares have fallen about 30% in October on worries about its debt, heavy capital spending, and returns on AI infrastructure. Goldman Sachs recently upgraded the stock to Buy. Palantir has risen roughly 55% since its early-August earnings report. Second-quarter revenue grew 93% year over year, but its valuation already reflects much future growth. Goldman also upgraded it this month, with a $230 target. The moves look like a valuation rotation: buying the punished stock and trimming the rewarded one.