Senior Software Engineer - Physical AI

CoreWeave; London (KY); On-site; USD 133,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with generous employer match

Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible PTO

Job summary

CoreWeave in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale our platform, delivering features across design, development, testing, deployment, and reliability. You will push a transition to a more distributed architecture, design agentic-ready interfaces, and mentor teammates while collaborating with product and engineering to turn requirements into working solutions.

The role offers a competitive base salary, discretionary bonus, equity, and a comprehensive

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Distributed systems and backend services expertise.
• Experience designing APIs and service interfaces.
• Security-minded development (auth, secure-by-default).
• Strong Python development in production.
• Production Kubernetes expertise.
• Familiar with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow).
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP a plus).
• Familiar with Spark, Athena, Ray, or similar data tools.
• Excellent technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to transitioning from monolithic to distributed architecture.
• Design and implement agentic-ready architectures for AI products.
• Write production-quality Python code for platform components.
• Build and optimize distributed compute services.
• Contribute to CI/CD, tests, and deployment.
• Support reliability, observability, and SRE practices.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices.
• Collaborate with product to translate requirements into solutions.
• Participate in technical decision-making and prioritization.
• Interview and onboard new engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

API design

Python development

Kubernetes in production

Security-minded development

CI/CD & testing

Technical communication

Production reliability

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Tools

Kubernetes

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:

The Physical AI Engineering Team at CoreWeave is responsible for building and scaling the core platform that powers the world’s most advanced engineering simulation and AI workflows. From evolving distributed architecture to enabling the next generation of agentic applications and physical AI, this team delivers the performant, reliable, and scalable foundation trusted by the world’s largest engineering companies.

About the role:

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale our platform as we meet growing demand from the world’s largest engineering companies. This is a hands‑on engineering role where you’ll deliver critical features and services across the full software lifecycle – from design and testing to deployment, operations, and reliability. You’ll contribute to our platform’s evolution to a more distributed architecture, helping make it agentic ready for the next generation of AI applications.

In this role, you will:

• Engineering & Architecture
  • 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.
• Hands‑On Development
  • 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).
• Team Mentorship & Collaboration
  • 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.

• Technical Excellence: You write clean, maintainable code and design systems that scale.
• Operational Rigor: You care about testing, deployments, and what happens after code ships – reliability, monitoring, and on‑call health.
• Pragmatic Problem‑Solver: You balance perfectionism with shipping, making smart trade‑offs between short‑term delivery and long‑term goals.
• Strong Leadership: You proactively identify problems and drive solutions forward.
• Mentorship Mindset: You elevate others through knowledge sharing and patient guidance.
• Ownership Mentality: You take full responsibility for outcomes and drive initiatives to completion.
• Customer Obsession: You understand that our success is measured by our customers’ success.

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!

The base salary range for this role is 98,000 GBP to 130,000 GBP. 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).

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US‑based offerings for full‑time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company‑paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long‑term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full‑service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

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.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [e-mail].

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.