{"id":1229513,"url":"https://alion.io/job/coreweave-staff-software-engineer-physical-ai","title":"Staff Software Engineer - Physical AI","company":{"id":7348,"name":"CoreWeave","domain":"coreweave.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/coreweave","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":130000,"max_usd":374000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":20},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CoreWeave","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Kubeflow","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Outlook","optional":false},{"name":"Physical AI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Ray","optional":false},{"name":"Spark","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-21T20:31:28Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T02:36:19Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":35,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":35},"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.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nThe 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.\nAbout the role:\nWe’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help drive the architectural evolution of our platform as we scale to meet growing demand from the world’s largest engineering companies. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll drive critical architectural initiatives across the full software lifecycle - from design and testing to deployment, operations, and reliability - while mentoring our engineering team. Partnering with senior engineering leadership, you’ll help shape and execute our platform’s evolution to a more distributed architecture, making it agentic ready for the next generation of AI applications.\nIn this role, you will:\nTechnical Leadership & Architecture\nDrive the ongoing transition from monolithic to distributed architecture.\nDesign and implement architecture to be agentic ready, enabling rapid deployment of AI products and MCP server integrations.\nOwn technical decisions balancing immediate business needs with long-term architectural goals.\n Hands-On Development\nWrite production-quality Python code for critical platform components.\nBuild and optimize distributed compute services.\nImplement reliable workflow orchestration patterns.\nOwn CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategy for platform services.\nDrive reliability, observability, and SRE practices (monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance and scaling).\nTeam Mentorship & Collaboration\nMentor senior and mid-level engineers, elevating the technical capabilities of the entire team.\nEstablish engineering best practices and architectural patterns.\nCollaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.\nGuide technical decision-making and prioritization across multiple teams.\nInterview and onboard new engineers.\nWho You Are:\n10+ years of software engineering experience, including time in a staff-level engineering role.\nBroad software engineering depth spanning deployment and CI/CD, automated testing, and SRE/production reliability (observability, incident response).\nDeep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems end-to-end.\nStrong API and service interface design skills for distributed services.\nSecurity-minded development, including authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth) and secure-by-default practices.\nExpert-level Python development skills with production experience at scale.\nStrong Kubernetes experience with production workloads.\nHands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow, or similar).\nCloud platform expertise (AWS required, Azure & GCP beneficial).\nExperience with data processing frameworks (Spark, Athena, Ray, or similar).\nTrack record of driving architectural transformations in growing companies.\nExcellence in technical communication and stakeholder management.\nWondering 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.\nTechnical Excellence: You write clean, maintainable code and design systems that scale.\nOperational Rigor: You care about testing, deployments, and what happens after code ships - reliability, monitoring, and on-call health.\nPragmatic Problem-Solver: You balance perfectionism with shipping, making smart trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term goals.\nStrong Leadership: You proactively identify problems and drive solutions forward.\nMentorship Mindset: You elevate others through knowledge sharing and patient guidance.\nOwnership Mentality: You take full responsibility for outcomes and drive initiatives to completion.\nCustomer Obsession: You understand that our success is measured by our customers’ success.\nWhy CoreWeave?\nAt 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: \nBe Curious at Your Core\nAct Like an Owner\nEmpower Employees\nDeliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences\nAchieve More Together\nWe 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!\nThe starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the 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).\nWhat We Offer\nThe 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.\nIn 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:\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave\nCompany-paid Life Insurance \nVoluntary supplemental life insurance \nShort and long-term disability insurance \nFlexible Spending Account\nHealth Savings Account\nTuition Reimbursement \nAbility to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)\nMental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health \nFamily-Forming support provided by Carrot\nPaid Parental Leave \nFlexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside\n401(k) with a generous employer match\nFlexible PTO\nCatered lunch each day in our office and data center locations\nA casual work environment\nA work culture focused on innovative disruption\nCalifornia Applicants\nCalifornia Consumer Privacy Act \nEqual Opportunity & Accommodations\nCoreWeave 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.\nAs 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: .\nExport Control Compliance\nThis 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. 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