Phased Delivery SME Staff Engineer

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 .

About the role:

We are building next-generation, gigawatt-scale AI data centers worldwide. These campuses are delivered in overlapping phases, often with active construction, live infrastructure turn-up, commissioning, IT deployment, and customer readiness occurring simultaneously across different parts of the same site.

The Phased Delivery SME is a senior, strategic operator responsible for designing and governing the end-to-end phased delivery model that brings these campuses online safely, predictably, and at speed. This person is the connective tissue across development, design, construction, controls, commissioning, facilities operations, network and IT deployment, liquid cooling infrastructure, and first-workload readiness.

In this role, you will set the standard for how partially complete sites transition from construction zones into operational AI capacity. You will create the frameworks, decision models, readiness gates, handoff criteria, risk controls, and cross-functional execution mechanisms needed to deliver data halls, utility capacity, grey space, white space, and liquid-cooled compute environments in tightly sequenced waves.

This role requires deep experience operating in ambiguity, leading across functions without direct authority, and driving execution in environments where the site is simultaneously a construction project, a commissioning program, and a live production operation.

What You’ll Do

Phased Delivery Strategy and Governance

• Define and own the enterprise phased delivery methodology for large-scale AI data center campuses.
• Establish the operating model for delivering sites in progressive stages, from early utility readiness and shell completion through grey space fit-out, commissioning, IT installation, and customer workload activation.
• Build standardized phase definitions, entry/exit criteria, handoff checkpoints, go/no-go gates, and risk escalation paths.
• Create the governance model that aligns construction progress, infrastructure readiness, safety, operations, and customer launch commitments.

Cross-Functional Orchestration

• Serve as the senior integrator across real estate development, design, construction, commissioning, facilities engineering, network deployment, server deployment, supply chain, security, EH&S, and operations.
• Drive coordination across multiple workstreams that may be