Staff Software Engineer - Physical AI

Job summary

Responsibilities

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.

• Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Drive the ongoing transition from monolithic to distributed architecture.
• Design and implement architecture to be agentic ready, enabling rapid deployment of AI products and MCP server integrations.
• Own technical decisions balancing immediate business needs with long-term architectural goals.
• Hands-On Development

What they're looking for

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including time in a staff-level engineering role.
• Broad software engineering depth spanning deployment and CI/CD, automated testing, and SRE/production reliability (observability, incident response).
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems end-to-end.
• Strong API and service interface design skills for distributed services.
• Security-minded development, including authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth) and secure-by-default practices.

Tech stack

• Python
• Kubernetes
• Airflow
• Kubeflow
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Spark