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Principal Operational Readiness Engineer

CoreWeave
CompanyCoreWeave
CategoryUncategorised
LocationLivingston
RemoteOn-site (inferred)
EmploymentNot stated
LevelNot stated
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted9 Jun 2026
Last verified2 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (greenhouse)
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Description
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 are delivered to CoreWeave’s operational and technical standards. Review project documentation including construction drawings, MEP designs, RFIs, submittals, schedules, turnover packages, and change orders to validate project readiness and execution quality. Monitor project dependencies, sequencing, and critical path risks across large-scale data center build and fit-out programs. Support the successful turnover of projects into operations by validating readiness, identifying gaps, and driving issue resolution before handoff. Who You Are: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline. 15+ years of experience in data center design, construction, commissioning, or operational readiness within mission-critical environments. Strong technical understanding of mechanical and electrical infrastructure systems including power distribution, cooling systems, controls, generators, UPS systems, and critical plant operations. Proven experience managing dis