Senior Hardware Engineer, Server Infrastructure

Location: New York, NY or Bellevue, WA, United States. The role supports data center operations, hardware technicians, and new regional infrastructure bring-up.

Company

CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure, technology, and services for AI labs, startups, and enterprises.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and optimize server hardware infrastructure for high-performance workloads.
• Automate the complete server hardware lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, firmware management, monitoring, and decommissioning.
• Build hardware and firmware management services, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and self-service tooling for reliable operations at scale.
• Lead hardware escalations, deep troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, incident response, and long-term corrective actions.
• Evaluate, qualify, and deploy new server platforms with vendors and OEMs, including support for firmware, quality, RMA, and data center region bring-up.
• Document designs and procedures, support operations teams and technicians, and use production failures to improve automation, telemetry, and platform design.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of server hardware, components, and management technologies.
• Hands-on proficiency with Ansible or Python and programmatic interaction with server BMCs through Redfish or IPMI; Redfish is preferred.
• Experience evaluating, qualifying, deploying, and troubleshooting production server infrastructure with hardware vendors and OEMs.
• Experience participating in on-call or escalation rotations and driving incidents through root-cause resolution.
• Strong technical documentation, analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with new data center region bring-up, GPU platforms, or rack-scale systems such as NVIDIA GB200 or GB300.
• Fleet-scale Redfish or IPMI, firmware lifecycle management, or hardware qualification experience.
• Strong Linux administration and debugging skills at fleet scale.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed production environments.
• Experience creating alerting, runbooks, and self-service tooling for operations teams or supporting external technical partners.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time US benefits include fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life, disability, family-forming, parental leave, mental wellness, childcare, and flexible spending benefits are available.
• Benefits include tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase program participation, 401(k) with employer match, and flexible PTO.
• Office and data center locations provide catered lunches and a casual work environment.
• The role includes an on-call rotation and collaboration across engineering, operations, vendors, and customer-facing stakeholders.
• Access to export-controlled information requires US-person status, eligibility without export authorization, or eligibility and reasonable likelihood of obtaining the required authorization.