Staff Software Engineer - Physical AI

What You’ll Do:

The Physical AI Engineering Team at CoreWeave is responsible for building and scaling the core platform that powers the world’s most advanced engineering simulation and AI workflows. From evolving distributed architecture to enabling the next generation of agentic applications and physical AI, this team delivers the performant, reliable, and scalable foundation trusted by the world’s largest engineering companies.

About the role:

We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help drive the architectural evolution of our platform as we scale to meet growing demand from the world’s largest engineering companies. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll drive critical architectural initiatives across the full software lifecycle – from design and testing to deployment, operations, and reliability – while mentoring our engineering team. Partnering with senior engineering leadership, you’ll help shape and execute our platform’s evolution to a more distributed architecture, making it agentic ready for the next generation of AI applications.

In this role, you will:

• Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Drive the ongoing transition from monolithic to distributed architecture.
• Design and implement architecture to be agentic ready, enabling rapid deployment of AI products and MCP server integrations.
• Own technical decisions balancing immediate business needs with long-term architectural goals.
• Hands-On Development
• Write production-quality Python code for critical platform components.
• Build and optimize distributed compute services.
• Implement reliable workflow orchestration patterns.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategy for platform services.
• Drive reliability, observability, and SRE practices (monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance and scaling).
• Team Mentorship & Collaboration
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, elevating the technical capabilities of the entire team.
• Establish engineering best practices and architectural patterns.
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Guide technical decision-making and prioritization across multiple teams.
• Interview and onboard new engineers.

Who You Are:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including time in a staff-level engineering role.
• Broad software engineering depth spanning deployment and CI/CD, automated testing, and SRE/production reliability (observability, incident response).
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems end-to-end.
• Strong API and service interface design skills for distributed services.
• Security-minded development, including authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth) and secure-by-default practices.
• Expert-level Python development skills with production experience at scale.
• Strong Kubernetes experience with production workloads.
• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow, or similar).
• Cloud platform expertise (AWS required, Azure & GCP beneficial).
• Experience with data processing frameworks (Spark, Athena, Ray, or similar).
• Track record of driving architectural transformations in growing companies.
• Excellence in technical communication and stakeholder management.

Wondering if you’re a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren’t a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.

• Technical Excellence: You write clean, maintainable code and design systems that scale.
• Operational Rigor: You care about testing, deployments, and what happens after code ships – reliability, monitoring, and on-call health.
• Pragmatic Problem-Solver: You balance perfectionism with shipping, making smart trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term goals.
• Strong Leadership: You proactively identify problems and drive solutions forward.
• Mentorship Mindset: You elevate others through knowledge sharing and patient guidance.
• Ownership Mentality: You take full responsibility for outcomes and drive initiatives to completion.
• Customer Obsession: You understand that our success is measured by our customers’ success.

Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast!  We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values: 

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• 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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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency.  CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.