CoreWeave
Staff Specialist Field Engineer, Robotics
$177K–$237K
San Francisco, CA / Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA / Sunnyvale, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years; no alternative stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. person, eligible to access export-controlled information without export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization; CoreWeave may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Establishes CoreWeave’s robotics field-engineering practice and leads customer engagements to build, validate, and deploy robotics AI applications using CoreWeave’s platform.
What you'll do
- Lead complex robotics customer engagements from scoping through embedded deployment and expansion, while setting the technical standard for the practice.
- Build and deploy customer-facing applications and ML solutions tailored to robotics use cases.
- Translate deployment feedback into actionable product signals and contribute to the Physical AI knowledge framework.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in robotics systems development, robot learning, or AI/ML for physical autonomous systems, with experience in manipulation, locomotion, or mobile robotics.
- Deep understanding of physical system dynamics, kinematics, and real-world robotics engineering constraints; able to validate ML outputs against physical constraints.
- Ability to independently build, validate, and deploy ML solutions in Python using modern ML frameworks; proficiency with JupyterHub, VS Code, Marimo, and W&B Models.
- Proven leadership of complex technical customer engagements and multi-stakeholder environments; bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related technical discipline.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying robot-learning systems on real hardware; familiarity with robotics foundation models, compute-intensive training workloads, or ROS/ROS2.
- Experience progressing strategic-account expansion opportunities or contributing to robotics knowledge frameworks, publications, or industry forums.
Pay
$177,000 to $237,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, JupyterHub, VS Code, Marimo, W&B Models, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Gazebo
AI focus
Build, validate, and deploy ML for physical autonomous systems and robotics, including robot learning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, sim-to-real transfer, anomaly detection, and trajectory prediction.
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