Senior Software Engineer - Physical AI

CoreWeave; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave is looking for an experienced software engineer to help transition to distributed architecture and build agentic-ready AI infrastructure. You will design backend services, define APIs, and contribute to CI/CD, observability, and reliability as part of a fast-moving platform team.

You should have 6+ years of software engineering, strong production Python, Kubernetes, and security-minded development practices, plus excellent collaboration with product and engineering peers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Production experience with Python and Kubernetes in distributed systems.
• Experience designing APIs and service interfaces.
• Security-minded development including OAuth and secure-by-default practices.
• Strong technical communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the transition from monolithic to distributed architecture.
• Design and implement agentic-ready architecture for rapid AI product deployment.
• Write production-grade Python code for platform components.
• Build and optimize distributed compute services and CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve reliability, observability, and incident response practices.
• Mentor engineers and help establish engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

API design

Security best practices

Observability

Tools

Temporal

Airflow

Kubeflow

Spark

Athena

Ray

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 .

What You’ll Do:

About the role:

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the ongoing transition from monolithic to distributed architecture.
• Help design and implement architecture to be agentic ready, enabling rapid deployment of AI products and MCP server integrations.
• Make sound technical decisions for the components you own, balancing immediate needs with long-term goals.
• Write production-quality Python code for critical platform components.
• Build and optimize distributed compute services.
• Implement reliable workflow orchestration patterns.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment for platform services.
• Support reliability, observability, and SRE practices (monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance and scaling).
• Support and mentor engineers, sharing knowledge across the team.
• Follow and help improve engineering best practices and patterns.
• Collaborate with product and engineering peers to turn requirements into technical solutions.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and prioritization within your team.
• Interview and onboard new engineers.

Who You Are:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Solid software engineering breadth across deployment and CI/CD, automated testing, and production reliability (observability, incident response).
• Experience with distributed systems, building and operating backend services end-to-end.
• Experience designing APIs and service interfaces.
• Security-minded development, including authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth) and secure-by-default practices.
• Strong Python development skills with production experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow, or similar).
• Cloud platform experience (AWS preferred, Azure & GCP a plus).
• Familiarity with data processing frameworks (Spark, Athena, Ray, or similar) a plus.
• Strong technical communication and collaboration skills.

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.

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 Cl