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Staff Software Engineer - Physical AI

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Staff Software Engineer - Physical AI in UK

  • CoreWeave
  • Full time
  • Email
  • London

Responsibilities

  • Drive the transition from monolithic to distributed architecture and design an agentic-ready platform supporting AI products and MCP server integrations.
  • Write production-quality Python and build and optimize distributed compute services and workflow orchestration systems.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment strategy, observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance, scaling, and reliability practices.
  • Make architectural and technical decisions balancing immediate business needs with long-term platform goals.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, establish engineering best practices, and guide prioritization across multiple teams.
  • Collaborate with product, business, and senior engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Interview and onboard new engineers.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience in a staff-level engineering role.
  • Broad expertise across deployment, CI/CD, automated testing, SRE, observability, incident response, and production reliability.
  • Deep experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed backend systems end-to-end.
  • Strong API and service-interface design skills for distributed services.
  • Security-minded development experience, including authentication, authorization, OAuth, and secure-by-default practices.
  • Expert-level Python development experience in production at scale.
  • Strong Kubernetes experience with production workloads.
  • Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow, or similar.
  • Cloud platform expertise with AWS required; Azure and GCP experience beneficial.
  • Experience with data-processing frameworks such as Spark, Athena, Ray, or similar.
  • Track record of driving architectural transformations in growing companies.
  • Strong technical communication, stakeholder management, leadership, problem-solving, mentorship, ownership, and customer focus.

Benefits

  • Base benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave for eligible US-based full-time employees.
  • Company-paid life insurance, voluntary supplemental life insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance are offered.
  • Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, tuition reimbursement, and employee stock purchase program participation are available.
  • Mental wellness benefits through Spring Health and family-forming support through Carrot are provided.
  • Paid parental leave and flexible full-service childcare support through Kinside are offered.
  • 401(k) with employer match and flexible paid time off are provided.
  • Catered lunch is available each day at office and data center locations.
  • The role offers a casual work environment and a culture focused on innovative disruption; benefits vary for non-US locations.
  • The posted base salary range is £116,000 to £155,000, with additional discretionary bonus, equity awards, and benefits based on eligibility.

CoreWeave

CoreWeave is the Essential Cloud for AI. CoreWeave is a cloud purpose-built for scaling, supporting, and accelerating GenAI. We’re a comprehensive platform and strategic partner designed to tackle today—and tomorrow’s—challenges of deploying AI at scale. We manage the complexities of AI growth to...

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