Principal Engineer

CoreWeave; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-level Medical Insurance

Family-level Dental Insurance

Generous Pension Contribution

Life Assurance at 4x Salary

Critical Illness Cover

Employee Assistance Programme

Tuition Reimbursement

Work culture focused on innovative Dis

Job summary

CoreWeave’s Physical AI team is seeking a Principal Engineer for hyperscale simulation software. You will define the overall product and technical strategy, guiding architecture from bare‑metal topology through orchestration to customer‑facing APIs, and directly partner with enterprise accounts to translate capabilities into deployed, high‑value solutions.

You will influence cross‑functional stakeholders across product, research, and commercial teams to drive revenue and sector leadership in

Qualifications

• Founding/leadership experience on deep‑tech platforms with successful deployment.
• Hands‑on experience building real‑time distributed systems with latency and scale constraints.
• Ability to navigate system architecture, product strategy, and business development angles.
• Experience across full‑stack architecture, bare‑metal topologies, orchestration layers, and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Define the overarching product and technical strategy for hyperscale simulation.
• Shape the roadmap for GPU‑based simulation alongside product, research, and commercial stakeholders.
• Lead architectural decisions across the stack—from bare‑metal to orchestration and APIs.
• Partner with enterprise customers to translate platform capabilities into high‑value solutions.
• Drive commercial success and revenue impact of CoreWeave’s product offering.

Skills

Deep-tech leadership

Real-time systems

Architectural design

Cross-functional

Customer & enterprise

Bare-metal topology

Job description

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.

We’re proud to be a Living Wage accredited Employer.

What You’ll Do

The Physical AI team at CoreWeave is building the compute foundation for the next era of AI, operating the world’s leading specialised AI cloud. We focus on one of the highest‑conviction bets in the company: architecting and delivering the distributed systems and real‑time infrastructure that underpin simulation‑driven autonomous or embodied AI at hyperscale. Our team operates at the intersection of advanced cloud infrastructure and applied deep tech—exactly where conventional architectures break down.

About The Role

As the Principal Engineer for Hyperscale Simulation Software, you will have founding‑team‑level influence and hold ultimate responsibility for the commercial success of CoreWeave’s product offering in hyperscale simulation, digital twins, and embodied AI training workloads. You will define the overarching product and technical strategy, shaping the roadmap for GPU‑based simulation alongside product, research, and commercial stakeholders. This hands‑on technical leadership role requires you to lead architectural decisions across the full stack—from bare‑metal GPU/CPU topology through orchestration layers to application‑facing APIs (particularly software offerings by NVIDIA). You will directly partner with enterprise customers and strategic accounts to translate platform capabilities into deployed, high‑value solutions that generate substantial revenue and place CoreWeave at the forefront of the industry.

Who You Are

• Proven track record of founding, leading, or acting as an early architect of deep‑tech platforms that successfully reached commercial deployment (e.g., AI/ML, simulation, digital twins, or defence systems).
• Deep, hands‑on experience building real‑time distributed systems under strict latency, scale, and resilience constraints.
• Strong technical intuition for where legacy architectures break down at scale, with the creativity to invent new approaches rather than simply extending existing ones.
• Demonstrated ability to operate fluidly across system architecture, product strategy, and business development simultaneously.
• Skilled at identifying capability gaps between customer workflows and existing platform features, building strategic cross‑functional alignment to resolve them.
• Experienced in navigating full‑stack architectural design, with a strong understanding of bare‑metal topologies, orchestration layers, and application APIs.

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.

• You love to pioneer deep‑tech solutions from initial architectural design through to high‑revenue commercial deployment.
• You’re curious about breaking past the limits of conventional cloud infrastructure to support next‑generation embodied AI and digital twins.
• You’re an expert in driving both technical excellence and massive business outcomes simultaneously, acting as the bridge between enterprise customers and complex engineering stacks.

Why CoreWeave?

About

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 organisation’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

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:

• Family‑level Medical Insurance
• Family‑level Dental Insurance
• Generous Pension Contribution
• Life Assurance at 4x Salary
• Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Work culture focused on innovative disruption

Benefits may vary by location.

Equal Opportunity

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.

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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.
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