DPU Datapath Engineer, Validation & Automation

coreweaveu; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Living Wage

Job summary

CoreWeave, The Essential Cloud for AI, seeks a Senior Engineer to lead testing for the DPU datapath and OVS-based pipelines. You will guide a local team and partner with DPU, networking, and platform groups to gate production releases.

You will craft automation, orchestrate DPU/host configurations, and integrate tests into CI/CD. Help shape long-term DPU architecture for testability and reliability with NVIDIA and partners.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in networking, systems, or cloud infra with production ops.
• Hands-on NVIDIA DPU experience in large-scale deployments.
• Solid Open vSwitch configuration and pipelines knowledge.
• Strong cloud networking fundamentals incl. VPCs, routing, security.
• Experience building testing and automation frameworks (Python/Golang).

Responsibilities

• Lead test strategy and automation for DPU datapath and control-plane.
• Collaborate with DPU, networking, and platform teams for CI/CD gated releases.
• Design automation to orchestrate DPU/host configurations and OVS pipelines.
• Influence architecture for testability and participate in on-call escalations.

Skills

Networking experience

NVIDIA DPU experience

OVS configuration

Cloud networking

Python/Golang

Observability tooling

Technical leadership

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 Network Services / DPU team at CoreWeave owns the high-performance network virtualization and hardware-offloaded datapath layers that power our global AI cloud. We design and build the infrastructure that eliminates communication bottlenecks for massive GPU clusters, ensuring multi-tenant workloads execute securely and at line-rate.

About the role:

As a Senior Engineer on the DPU team, you will lead a local team driving the test strategy and automation execution for our OVS-based datapath and related control-plane components. You will partner closely with DPU, networking, and platform engineering groups to turn dataplane validation into a reliable, repeatable service that gates production releases. This role involves designing sophisticated automation to orchestrate DPU/host configurations and OVS pipelines, integrating these test beds into CI/CD pipelines, and validating regression, functionality, and scalability for NVIDIA software releases. You will influence the long-term architecture of DPU datapath and control-plane designs for maximum testability, participate in rotating on-call structures, and work directly with strategic vendors like NVIDIA on escalations and hardware feature validation.

Who You Are:

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience in networking, systems, or cloud infrastructure, with a deep focus on dataplane technologies and production operations.
• Hands-on engineering experience with NVIDIA DPUs (e.g., BlueField platforms) in large-scale deployments, including firmware/software lifecycle and hardware offload pipelines.
• Strong, deep knowledge of Open vSwitch (OVS) configuration and pipelines, including bridges, flows, and hardware offloads.
• Solid technical background in cloud networking infrastructure, including VPCs, routing, security policies, and overlay/underlay networking topologies.
• Proven ability to build testing, simulation, and automation frameworks from scratch using Python, Golang, or similar systems languages.
• High proficiency in network observability, low-level benchmarking, and deep production troubleshooting using tools like tcpdump, iproute2, and perf.
• Excellent communication and technical leadership skills, with a track record of driving technical direction and mentoring engineers.

Preferred:

• Direct experience validating and operating NVIDIA DPU / DOCA / HBN stacks within a hyperscale or cloud provider environment.
• Prior technical work on system-level validation for network switches, smartNICs, or specialized DPUs.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based environments and integration of DPUs directly into bare-metal node lifecycles.
• Active open-source or production code contributions to projects such as P4, OVS, DPDK, or DOCA libraries.

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 build long-term, strategic frameworks and find creative automation solutions to safeguard network reliability at hyperscale.
• You're curious about the rapidly evolving AI and cloud ecosystem, staying current on next-generation hardware-offload architectures.
• You're an expert in connecting dots across distributed platform teams and organizations to design scalable plays that drive measurable engineering impact.

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!

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