Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Agents

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

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work directly with our customers, embedding inside their AI teams to help them build and deploy successful AI agents with the W&B Weave developer toolkit.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role—ideal for someone who thrives in high-impact environments, enjoys solving open-ended technical problems, and wants to shape how the world’s leading organizations build with AI.

Responsibilities

• Embed inside customer AI engineering teams to design, prototype, and productionize AI agents using W&B Weave.

• Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers make architectural decisions and best practices for agentic workflows.

• Develop reference implementations, demos, and example projects that showcase effective use of W&B Weave.

• Gather and relay feedback from the field to influence the W&B Weave product roadmap and improve the AI developer experience.

• Conduct technical workshops, deep dives, and enablement sessions to accelerate customer adoption.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges in customer environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering or hands-on coding experience
  
  
• Strong engineering background with experience in Python and modern ML/AI systems frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.).
  
  
• A minimum of a bachelor's degree (or international equivalent), in Computer Science or related field, is required.

• Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI agents, or orchestration frameworks.
  
  
• Ability to work directly with customers in technical consulting or solution engineering roles.

• Excellent communication skills: able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.

• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where creativity and problem-solving are key.
  
  
• Experience in one or more of the following is a plus:
  • Building production ML/AI systems.
  • Working with vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, or reinforcement learning.
  • Prior forward deployed / field engineering / solutions architect roles.

The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance 
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance 
• Short and long-term disability insurance 
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health 
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave 
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [email protected].

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency.  CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.