Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Compute Infrastructure

CoreWeave; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Specialist Field Engineer - Compute Infrastructure to provide technical expertise for key customers managing high-performance AI workloads. This role involves overseeing the technical path from design to production-ready supercomputers, ensuring excellence in GPU cluster delivery.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, deep knowledge of GPU technology, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to various audiences. CoreWeave offers a supportive work environment centered on growth and innovation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or related field.
• Deep expertise with modern rack-scale GPU server hardware.
• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers.
• Lead new GPU cluster bring-up and acceptance.
• Define and operationalize models for managing customer bare-metal fleets.

Skills

Cloud computing concepts

Infrastructure engineering

Linux system administration

Technical communication

Networking fundamentals

GPU cluster management

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or relevant field

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

Bash

Python

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 Field Engineering organization at CoreWeave is dedicated to ensuring every customer 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. Field Engineering aligns closely with internal and customer engineering teams, offering valuable insights from the field and the chance to shape the CoreWeave product roadmap and development.

About The Role

As a Specialist Field Engineer - Compute Infrastructure at CoreWeave, you’ll own the technical path for some of our largest customers as they go from facility and rack design to a validated, production‑ready supercomputer. Working alongside the teams that build and operate each layer, you are the deep technical expert who turns raw data center hardware—racks, GPUs, high‑speed fabric, firmware—into reliable compute that customers can train and inference on at scale, spanning infrastructure engineering, provisioning, validation, operations, and support.

You’ll engage hands‑on across the entire customer lifecycle: leading new GPU cluster bring‑up and acceptance, driving InfiniBand/RoCE fabric validation and HPC performance benchmarking, defining how we operate customer bare‑metal fleets at rack‑level‑and‑up (IT service, break‑fix, network, and firmware), and standing up locked‑down, security‑sensitive environments for our most strategic AI customers. You’ll partner closely with Data Center Operations, Fleet Operations, Networking, and Product Engineering, and your work in the field will directly shape how CoreWeave delivers compute infrastructure.

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 bare‑metal compute infrastructure and end‑to‑end cluster delivery within high-performance compute (HPC) environments.
• Own the technical path from facility and rack design to a validated, production‑ready supercomputer—spanning logical design, infrastructure engineering, provisioning, validation, operations, and support.
• Lead bring‑up and acceptance of new large‑scale GPU clusters, driving InfiniBand/RoCE fabric validation, HPC performance benchmarking (e.g., NCCL, ib_write_bw), and remediation of fabric, optics, firmware, and node‑level issues to meet customer performance targets.
• Define and operationalize models for managing customer bare‑metal fleets at rack‑level‑and‑up—IT service, break‑fix, network and firmware management—including Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) and customer self‑service patterns.
• Partner with Data Center Operations, Fleet Operations, and Networking teams to align facility, hardware, and fabric readiness with customer go‑live timelines and operational SLAs.
• Review and advise on customer‑facing technical contract terms, including service scope, operational responsibilities, SLAs, isolation requirements, and support boundaries.
• 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 Compute Infrastructure, Fleet Operations, and Networking 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.
• 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, Infrastructure/Systems Engineer, or Technical Account Manager in Cloud Infrastructure, focusing on building or operating distributed systems or HPC/cloud services, with an expertise focused on bare‑metal compute infrastructure and large‑scale GPU cluster delivery.
• 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 modern rack‑scale GPU server hardware (e.g., NVIDIA HGX / GB200‑class systems), high‑speed interconnects (InfiniBand, NVLink), and the firmware/BMC/BIOS layer.
• Expert‑level Linux system administration and command‑line troubleshooting, paired with strong networking fundamentals (routing, fabric topologies, TCP/IP).
• Hands‑on experience bringing up, validating, and operating large GPU clusters—including bare metal node pxe boot, hardware health, fabric validation, and HPC acceptance/performance testing—and integrating bare metal with orchestration layers such as Kubernetes and Slurm.

Preferred

• Experience operating security‑sensitive, air‑gapped, or otherwise locked‑down customer environments.
• Experience with scripting and automation related to bare‑metal provisioning, infrastructure validation, and lifecycle management (Python, Bash, Ansible, or similar).
• Experience designing AI supercomputers from MEP designs.
• Experience delivering bare‑metal infrastructure at scale for large strategic customers or AI research labs.
• Experience with building solutions across multi‑cloud or hybrid environment.

Wondering if you’re a good fit?

• 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?

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.

About

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best‑in‑Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

What We Offer

The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $275,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. These benefits reflect our US‑based offerings; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process.

• 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

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.