Staff Runtime Systems Engineer for AI & Large-Scale Compute

Coreweaveu; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Living Wage

Job summary

CoreWeave is building the Physical AI Engineering Team to enable demanding AI, simulation, robotics, and engineering workloads to run reliably at scale across Kubernetes, Argo, OSMO, and future environments. This Staff Software Engineer, Runtime Systems role focuses on distributed systems, runtimes, workflow execution, programming language concepts, and large‑scale compute infrastructure.

You’ll help establish contracts between our platform and execution backends while preserving native

Responsibilities

• Design and build runtime components for complex AI workloads.
• Define abstractions for workloads, execution environments, dependencies, state, capabilities, and failure.
• Design interfaces between higher‑level services and systems such as Kubernetes, Argo, and OSMO.
• Establish clear boundaries around which systems own state, decisions, and side effects.
• Make architectural decisions balancing simplicity, extensibility, performance, and operational reality.
• Define durable contracts between workload definitions, control‑plane services, and execution backends.

Job description

CoreWeave is building the Physical AI Engineering Team to enable demanding AI, simulation, robotics, and engineering workloads to run reliably at scale across Kubernetes, Argo, OSMO, and future environments. This Staff Software Engineer, Runtime Systems role focuses on distributed systems, runtimes, workflow execution, programming language concepts, and large‑scale compute infrastructure.

You’ll help establish contracts between our platform and execution backends while preserving native