Senior Hardware Engineer (Server Infrastructure)

Join CoreWeave, a rapidly growing cloud provider specializing in GPU-accelerated workloads. As a Senior Hardware Engineer, you will design, develop, and optimize our server hardware infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams and external vendors. This hands-on role combines engineering and operational support, with responsibilities including automation, hardware and firmware management, monitoring, and troubleshooting. You will support the systems you build and work closely with data center operations teams, hardware technicians, and engineering teams.

• Design, develop, and optimize server hardware infrastructure to support high-performance workloads.
• Automate all aspects of the server hardware lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration through firmware management, monitoring, and decommissioning.
• 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.

• 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