Senior Specialist Field Engineer - HPC/AI/ML

CoreWeave; Greater London; On-site; GBP 98,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Pension Plan

Life Insurance

Critical Illness Cover

Employee Assistance

Tuition Reimbursement

Innovative culture

Job summary

CoreWeave, the Essential Cloud for AI, is seeking a Senior Specialist Field Engineer in Greater London to lead customer engagements across Kubernetes, HPC, and AI workloads. You will establish technical relationships, design tailored cloud solutions, and drive proofs of concept to accelerate client deployments.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, contribute to product direction, and help optimize workloads using Slurm, NCCL, and Infiniband in high-performance environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree or higher in a related technical field.
• 7+ years of proven experience in Solutions Architecture, Field Engineering, Engineering, Research, or Technical Account Management in cloud infrastructure.
• Strong cloud computing concepts, architecture, and hands-on experience in cloud solutions.
• Proven ability to build and maintain customer relationships and explain complex tech to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deep expertise with NVIDIA GPUs in AI/ML workloads and related tech (NCCL, Infiniband).
• Experience running large-scale AI/ML training/inference on Slurm and Kubernetes, and integrating with enterprise IT.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary technical contact for customers, building strong relationships and ensuring success with CoreWeave cloud offerings for AI/ML workloads.
• Collaborate with customers to understand business needs and prototype/deploy tailored solutions.
• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to demonstrate value in specific environments.
• Provide technical leadership during customer meetings, addressing questions and concerns.
• Act as a virtual member of CoreWeave Kubernetes product/engineering to suggest improvements.
• Contribute insights on product features, performance, and architecture, and influence product strategy.
• Conduct workload reviews to identify optimization opportunities and recommend solutions.
• Stay informed on Kubernetes, cloud computing trends and share knowledge with customers and teammates.
• Lead R&D prototyping for new products and solutions, delivering insights for internal use.
• Represent CoreWeave at conferences/events, with travel as needed.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

AI/ML inference

Kubernetes

NVIDIA GPUs

Customer relationships

Technical leadership

Open source (preferred)

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Slurm

NVIDIA NCCL

Infiniband

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 Customer Experience (CX) Organization at CoreWeave is dedicated to ensuring every client running AI workloads at scale has a seamless, reliable, and high-performance experience. This team supports the infrastructure that powers the AI revolution—working across data centers, hardware systems, and customer workloads to maintain the integrity of our cloud platform. The CX organization aligns closely with the internal and customer engineering teams, offering valuable insights from the field and having the chance to contribute to the CoreWeave product roadmap and development.

About The Role

As a Senior Specialist Field Engineer at CoreWeave, you will play a vital and dynamic role. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate thought leadership and engage hands‑on throughout our customers' entire lifecycle. From establishing their Kubernetes environment to developing proofs of concept, onboarding, and optimizing workloads, you will lead innovation at every turn. If you're driven by innovation, thrilled by the possibilities of what specialized compute can enable, and eager to be part of a team that's shaping the future, then CoreWeave is the place for you. Join us and let's embark on this adventure together!

In This Role, You Will

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers, establishing strong technical relationships and ensuring their success with CoreWeave's cloud infrastructure offerings, focusing on AI/ML workloads within high‑performance compute (HPC) environments
• Collaborate closely with customers to understand their unique business needs and create, prototype, and deploy tailored solutions that align with their requirements.
• Lead proof of concept initiatives to showcase the value and viability of CoreWeave's solutions within specific environments.
• Drive technical leadership and direction during customer meetings, presentations, and workshops, addressing any technical queries or concerns that arise.
• Act as a virtual member of CoreWeave's Kubernetes product and engineering teams, identifying opportunities for product enhancement and collaborating with engineers to implement your suggestions.
• Offer valuable insights on product features, functionality, and performance, contributing regularly to discussions about product strategy and architecture.
• Conduct periodic technical reviews and assessments of customer workloads, pinpointing opportunities for workload optimization and suggesting suitable solutions.
• Stay informed of the latest developments and trends in Kubernetes, cloud computing and infrastructure, sharing your thought leadership with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Lead the prototyping and initiation of research and development efforts for emerging products and solutions, delivering prototypes and key insights for internal consumption.
• Represent CoreWeave at conferences and industry events, with occasional travel as required.

Who You Are

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of proven experience as a Solutions Architect, Field Engineer, Engineer, Researcher, or Technical Account Manager in Cloud Infrastructure, focusing on building distributed systems or HPC/cloud services, with an expertise focused on AI/ML inference
• Fluency in cloud computing concepts, architecture, and technologies with hands‑on experience in designing and implementing cloud solutions
• Proven track record with building customer relationships, communicating clearly and the ability to break down complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Deep expertise with NVIDIA GPUs typically used in AI/ML applications and associated technologies such as Infiniband and NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL)
• Demonstrated experience with running large scale Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) training and inference workloads on technologies such as Slurm and Kubernetes. You understand integration points between cloud solutions and enterprise IT

Preferred

• Code contributions to open-source inference frameworks
• Experience with scripting and automation related to AI/ML workloads
• Experience with building solutions across multi-cloud environments
• Client or customer-facing publications/talks on latency, optimization, or advanced model-server architectures

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 help solve challenging technical problems
• You’re curious about the latest and greatest technologies in the AI space
• You’re an expert in managing conflict and achieving mutually beneficial technical outcomes

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 provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take off, the growth opportunities within the organization 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 base salary range for this role is £98,000 - £130,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and 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).

To fulfill our obligation to protect client data, successful applicants offered employment with CoreWeave will be required to complete a basic criminal record check, conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results.

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.

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.