Staff Specialist Field Engineer, Autonomous Vehicles

CoreWeave; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch in office

Job summary

CoreWeave is the AI cloud leader and trusted by top labs and enterprises. The Physical AI Field Engineering team seeks a Staff Specialist Field Engineer to establish and lead the autonomous vehicle vertical, defining engagement standards and leading complex deployments from first contact to embedded deployment.

You will work across CoreWeave’s AI stack to design and deploy customer-facing solutions, gathering field signals to inform product development and driving expansion across strategic

Qualifications

• 8+ years in autonomous vehicle systems development or AI/ML for L4-5.
• In-depth familiarity with AV sensor modalities (camera, LiDAR, radar).
• Hands-on ML capability: build, validate, deploy ML solutions in Python.
• Experience leading complex technical customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Define engagement strategy with autonomous vehicle customers and lead engagements.
• Design and deploy ML solutions across CoreWeave’s AI platform.
• Gather signals from deployments to inform product development and roadmaps.

Skills

Autonomous vehicle systems

Perception engineering

ML in Python

JupyterHub

VS Code

Marimo

W&B Models

Education

Electrical Engineering

Systems Engineering

Computer Science

Physics

Tools

CARLA

LGSVL

Monolith

W&B Models

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 Field Engineering team at CoreWeave deploys AI solutions within enterprise engineering organisations, helping customers realise measurable value from machine learning applications. As we build our presence in Autonomous Vehicles (L4-5), we are seeking a Staff Specialist Field Engineer to establish and lead this vertical. You will define how the team engages with autonomous vehicle customers, set the technical standard for the practice, and lead complex customer engagements from first contact through to embedded deployment and expansion.

This role requires genuine depth on both sides of the engagement: you must be credible to the ML engineers, perception researchers and system architects in the room, and capable of building and validating ML solutions independently using our product stack. You will work across CoreWeave’s AI platform (including Monolith, Marimo, and W&B Models) to design and deploy solutions and build customer-facing applications tailored to specific autonomous vehicle use cases.

A core part of this role is building and iterating on customer-facing applications using the CoreWeave product stack tailored to specific engineering use cases. These applications are the product the customer uses; you are not just deploying tools but building at the product edge. You will gather and synthesise signals from real customer deployments, identifying where customer needs are consistent enough across accounts to inform development of standalone capabilities. You will contribute to the wider Field Engineering team’s Physical AI knowledge framework and provide critical signals of what customers need in the field and what ultimately gets built in the product.

Who You Are

• 8+ years experience in autonomous vehicle systems development, perception engineering, motion planning, or AI/ML for L4-5 autonomous systems.
• Deep familiarity with autonomous vehicle sensor modalities (camera, LiDAR, radar) and their data characteristics including the long-tail distribution and edge case challenges central to L4-5 development.
• Hands-on ML capability: able to build, validate, and deploy ML solutions independently in Python using modern ML frameworks.
• Proficient in working directly in JupyterHub, VS Code, Marimo, and W&B Models to build and deploy customer-facing applications.
• Working knowledge of ML approaches relevant to autonomous systems: perception, object detection, motion prediction, closed-loop simulation, or anomaly detection in autonomous system logs.
• Able to validate ML solutions on engineering grounds and identify when a result is inconsistent with the physical or safety constraints of the domain.
• Proven experience leading complex technical customer engagements, managing multi-stakeholder environments, and maintaining executive relationships.
• Strong understanding of the autonomous vehicle development pipeline, including closed-loop simulation, scenario-based testing, and data-driven approaches to safety case validation.
• Able to translate field observations into structured product signals that are actionable for an engineering team.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical discipline.

Preferred

• Knowledge of functional safety standards including ISO 26262 and SOTIF.
• Experience with simulation environments used in autonomous vehicle development (CARLA, LGSVL or similar).
• Familiarity with edge deployment of ML models in constrained or safety-critical environments.
• Experience identifying and progressing expansion opportunities within strategic customer accounts.
• Track record of contributing to internal knowledge frameworks, technical publications, or industry forums in the autonomous vehicles space.
• Experience working alongside or within an AI infrastructure or MLOps environment.

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 are equally comfortable discussing perception algorithm design and long-tail edge case coverage with ML engineers as you are discussing system safety architecture with systems engineers and you know that the most valuable insight often sits at that boundary.
• You want to build AI solutions that are deployed in real engineering environments, not demonstrated in notebooks.
• You find the unsolved problem of building autonomous systems that reliably handle the long-tail of real world edge cases to be a genuinely interesting technical problem.
• You want to bring your autonomous vehicle domain expertise into a team that already knows how to land and expand AI solutions with engineering customers, and you see being the domain authority that opens a new vertical as a genuinely compelling opportunity.

What We Offer

The base salary range for this role is $177,000 to $237,000. 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).

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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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].

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