Senior Software Engineer - Physical AI

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.

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). 

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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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: careers@coreweave.com.

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.