Staff Software Engineer - Physical AI
CoreWeave- Base salary
- £116k–£155k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - London, England Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Staff / Principal
About the job
CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™, delivering a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. The Physical AI Engineering Team is responsible for building and scaling the core platform that powers advanced engineering simulation and AI workflows.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive the architectural evolution of our platform, leading initiatives across the full software lifecycle, from design to deployment and reliability, while mentoring the engineering team.
What You'll Do
- Drive the transition from monolithic to distributed architecture, making it agentic ready for AI applications and MCP server integrations.
- Write production-quality Python code for critical platform components.
- Build and optimize distributed compute services and implement workflow orchestration patterns.
- Own CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategy.
- Drive reliability, observability, and SRE practices.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and establish engineering best practices.
Who You Are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including staff-level role.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture and large-scale backend systems.
- Expert-level Python development skills.
- Strong Kubernetes experience with production workloads.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow).
- Cloud platform expertise (AWS required, Azure & GCP beneficial).
- Experience with data processing frameworks (Spark, Athena, Ray).
Compensation
The base salary range for this role is 116,000 GBP to 155,000 GBP.
Application
Apply via the CoreWeave careers page.
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