Senior Hardware Engineer (Server Infrastructure)

CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated engineer to join our Hardware Engineering team

In this role, you will help design, develop, and optimize our server hardware infrastructure

You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, external vendors, and key stakeholders to deliver performant, reliable, and scalable hardware solutions that power CoreWeave’s rapidly growing infrastructure

You will own server hardware from provisioning through decommission

This hands-on role combines engineering and operational support

Engineering work includes automation across the hardware lifecycle, hardware and firmware management services, monitoring and alerting, and qualification and bring-up of new platforms

Operational support includes acting as a senior point of contact for hardware escalations, driving deep root-cause analysis across hardware and firmware, and working quality and RMA issues through to resolution with server vendors and OEMs

Both engineering and operational support are core responsibilities

You will support the systems you build and use what you learn from production failures to improve automation, telemetry, and platform design

You will work closely with data center operations teams, hardware technicians, and engineering teams to bring new regions online and keep existing infrastructure healthy

Design and develop server hardware infrastructure to support CoreWeave’s high-performance workloads

Automate all aspects of the server hardware lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration through firmware management, monitoring, and decommissioning

Develop and maintain hardware and firmware management services that ensure reliability at scale

Develop and implement monitoring and alerting for server hardware health, improving alert quality to support reliable on-call response

Serve as a senior point of contact for hardware escalations, performing deep troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across hardware and firmware to drive long-term fixes

Participate in an on-call rotation for hardware escalations and improve the runbooks, alerts, and tooling that make the rotation sustainable

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define hardware requirements, specifications, and system architecture

Work with server vendors and OEMs to evaluate, qualify, and deploy new platforms and resolve firmware, quality, and RMA issues

Support new data center region bring-up and hardware qualification

Analyze hardware system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements to efficiency and resilience

Establish and continuously refine processes for internal hardware testing, deployment, and performance optimization

Create and maintain accurate documentation of hardware designs, specifications, test procedures, and results

Support data center operations teams and hardware technicians with troubleshooting guidance, runbooks, and training so common issues can be resolved without engineering escalation

Turn recurring production failures into automation, better telemetry, and improvements to platform design and vendor solutions

Communicate status, trade-offs, and risks clearly to engineering, operations, and customer-facing stakeholders, including during active incidents

Proficiency in Ansible or Python, with hands-on experience programmatically interacting with server BMCs using Redfish or IPMI; Redfish preferred

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to work effectively with technical teams and cross-functional stakeholders

Comfort with both building and automating systems and supporting infrastructure already in production

Demonstrated experience supporting and troubleshooting production infrastructure, participating in on-call or escalation rotations, and driving incidents through to root-cause resolution

Strong interest in automation and infrastructure scalability, with a commitment to continuous improvement

Deep understanding of server hardware, components, and management technologies

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a bias toward systematic, data-driven decisions

Experience collaborating with hardware vendors and OEMs to evaluate, qualify, and deploy server solutions

Proven ability to stay current with technologies and trends in server and data center hardware

Excellent technical documentation skills and attention to detail

We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who bring diverse experiences to our teams—even if you aren’t a 100% skill or experience match. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk

You enjoy tracing intermittent hardware failures to their root cause and validating that a fix addresses the underlying problem

You enjoy solving problems at the boundary of hardware, firmware, and software

You bring structure, accountability, and momentum to fast-moving environments

You work effectively with operations, engineering, and vendor teams to resolve complex technical issues

You want to both build systems and support them, and you use operational experience to improve what you build

You look for opportunities to automate repetitive hardware procedures

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

Experience bringing up new data center regions or standing up infrastructure in a new geography

Experience with GPU platforms and rack-scale systems such as NVIDIA GB200 or GB300

Experience with BMC technologies and management interfaces such as Redfish or IPMI at fleet scale

Experience with firmware lifecycle management or hardware qualification programs in large-scale environments

Strong Linux systems administration and debugging skills at fleet scale

Familiarity with Kubernetes-based services, observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and distributed production environments

Experience designing alerting, runbooks, and self-service tooling that enable operations teams to resolve common hardware failures without engineering escalation

Experience supporting external customers or partners in a technical troubleshooting capacity