Engineering Manager, Hardware Compute

CoreWeave; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 297,239 - 382,165; 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

Innovative work culture

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking an Engineering Manager in Warsaw to lead and manage a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on the hardware cloud. This role involves hiring, team development, and aligning technical roadmaps.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in hardware or cloud environments and 2+ years in people management, with strong technical skills in server hardware and project management.

CoreWeave offers competitive salary and benefits including family-level medical and dental insurance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in hardware, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• 2+ years of people management experience.
• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead hiring and people management across multiple domains.
• Build and staff a high-performing team.
• Manage day-to-day workloads and multiple projects.
• Coach engineers through regular feedback.

Skills

Team building

People management

Technical depth in server hardware

Project management

Communication skills

Education

5+ years in hardware, cloud, or HPC environments

Tools

Python

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

About The Role

Engineering Manager – Hardware Compute, Warsaw, Poland.

Reports to the Director of Compute Architecture. Lead hiring and people management across METAL, METALDEV, and METALNET domains.

Responsible for building and staffing a multi‑disciplinary engineering team that supports CoreWeave’s hardware cloud at scale. The team spans server hardware lifecycle management, firmware automation, and high‑bandwidth GPU interconnect platforms such as NVLink and NVSwitch.

What You’ll Do

• Build and staff a high‑performing Warsaw‑based team across METAL, METALDEV, and METALNET.
• Create and execute a hiring plan that supports rapid growth across multiple technical domains and levels.
• Partner closely with recruiting to attract, evaluate, close, and retain strong technical talent.
• Onboard new hires effectively and create the structure, clarity, and support they need to ramp quickly.
• Manage day‑to‑day workloads, sprint planning, prioritization, and longer‑term project execution across multiple technical domains.
• Partner closely with North American engineering leaders to align Warsaw‑based teams with technical roadmaps and organizational priorities, driving execution through clear planning, prioritization, and delivery of key outcomes.
• Coach engineers and emerging leaders through regular feedback, one‑on‑ones, performance management, and career development conversations.
• Foster a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, collaboration, accountability, and operational excellence.
• Identify gaps in staffing, skill coverage, process, and team structure, and proactively drive improvements.
• Support engineers working on server hardware infrastructure, hardware and firmware management services, automation systems, and GPU interconnect platforms.
• Partner closely with teams across engineering, operations, support, supply chain, and data center functions to align priorities, resolve blockers, and deliver results across organizational boundaries.
• Communicate status, trade‑offs, risks, and organizational needs clearly to stakeholders and leadership.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience in hardware, infrastructure, systems, networking, or platform engineering roles in data center, cloud, or high‑performance computing environments.
• 2+ years of people management experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and developing engineers or team leads.
• Strong interest in building teams, staffing organizations, and developing engineers in a fast‑moving environment.
• Proven experience growing or scaling teams, including partnering with recruiting and building hiring processes.
• Proven experience leading operational or engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure at scale.
• Strong technical depth in one or more of the following areas: server hardware, firmware and BMC technologies, Linux systems, hardware automation, GPU infrastructure, or HPC networking.
• Experience working cross‑functionally across engineering, operations, support, supply chain, product, or vendor organizations to deliver complex programs.
• Strong project and execution management skills, including the ability to prioritize across multiple workstreams and communicate trade‑offs clearly.
• Track record of building lightweight but effective processes that increase clarity, predictability, and execution speed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both deeply technical teams and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail, follow‑through, and ownership in fast‑moving environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience standing up a new team or expanding an existing team in a new geography.
• Experience managing distributed or multi‑disciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience with server fleet operations, hardware qualification, firmware lifecycle management, or production incident response in large‑scale environments.
• Experience with BMC technologies and management interfaces such as Redfish or IPMI.
• Experience with Python, Go, Bash, Ansible, or similar automation tooling.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes‑based services, observability systems, and distributed production environments.
• Experience with GPU platforms, NVLink, NVSwitch, InfiniBand, or other high‑bandwidth / low‑latency interconnect technologies.

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

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.