Systems Engineer
US$182,000 – US$242,000 / yr base salary
Posted 29 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Senior Systems Engineer, Enterprise AI Platforms”
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- Expected experience
- 6+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
| Base salary | US$182,000 – US$242,000 / yr |
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CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
What You'll Do:
IT Engineering at CoreWeave designs, builds, and operates the systems that enable our employees and acquired organizations to work securely and efficiently at scale. The team partners closely with Security, Business Development, PeopleOps, and Corporate functions to deliver resilient, standardized, and automation-first IT solutions that support CoreWeave's rapid growth.
About the role:
CoreWeave is hiring a Senior AI Platform Engineer to own the design, implementation, and governance of AI across CoreWeave's employee environment. You'll be the technical owner for the AI tools our employees use every day, on every surface they ship on: chat assistants, desktop apps, coding agents, AI terminals, AI browsers, workplace knowledge tools, and whatever comes next. You'll make them safe to adopt by building CoreWeave's guardrails directly into the platform through identity, device, and tenant-level controls rather than policy documents alone.
This role is for someone who is genuinely passionate about AI and lives on its bleeding edge: someone who is already tuning agent behavior every week, has run swarms of agents and agent loops rather than just chatted with a model, and wants to keep learning at the velocity this field now moves. The tools, models, and best practices in this job will change monthly. That should excite you, not exhaust you.
This is not a traditional AI/ML engineering role, and it is not a traditional IT administration role. It is deliberately a composite role that combines three things: production software and SRE engineering, hands-on LLM and agent work, and enterprise IT controls across identity, devices, and SaaS. We expect strong candidates to arrive deep in two of the three and grow into the third. Tell us which two.
What success looks like in the first year: CoreWeave employees get frontier AI capabilities before almost any enterprise on earth. When a vendor ships a new model, agent surface, or feature, you already know it's coming; you're plugged into vendor roadmaps, betas, and the community and you have an evaluated, governed rollout ready in days, not quarters. That speed is possible because of the foundation you build in year one: sanctioned tools governed through identity, a connector and MCP allowlist in production, an intake process so "is this allowed" has an answer, internal agents shipping through an IT-owned gateway, and leadership visibility into usage, cost, and risk. The foundation is the floor; the pace is the job.