Principal Operational Readiness 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 .

What You’ll Do:

CoreWeave is scaling a portfolio of mission-critical data center infrastructure to support the performance, reliability, and speed required for AI and high-performance computing workloads. Our teams partner across design, construction, commissioning, networking, and operations to bring new capacity online safely and at scale. The Principal Operational Readiness Engineer will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for stabilizing and driving execution of complex data center projects across CoreWeave’s infrastructure portfolio.

About the role:

This role is focused on design compliance, operational readiness, and cross-functional coordination across all phases of design, construction, commissioning, fit-out, and operational handoff. The Principal Operational Readiness Engineer will perform deep operational and technical reviews of projects to identify gaps in process execution, design validation, construction coordination, turnover readiness, and quality assurance practices. You will evaluate whether critical infrastructure systems, construction activities, commissioning efforts, and operational handoff procedures are being executed in accordance with project requirements, standards, and best practices. This individual must be comfortable rapidly assessing current-state execution, identifying risk, and driving actionable mitigation and recovery plans to resolution.

In this role, you will:

• Perform deep operational and technical reviews of active projects to identify gaps in design validation, process execution, construction coordination, turnover readiness, and quality assurance.
• Assess whether critical infrastructure systems, construction activities, commissioning efforts, and operational handoff procedures are being executed in accordance with project requirements, standards, and best practices.
• Identify deficiencies, breakdowns in coordination, incomplete validations, and missing controls that could impact schedule, reliability, scalability, or operational readiness.
• Develop and drive corrective action, mitigation, and recovery plans through resolution for distressed or high-risk infrastructure projects.
• Partner closely with Design, Construction, Operations, Network Engineering, Commissioning, and external contractors to improve coordination, strengthen execution discipline, and ensure projects