Senior Firmware Engineer, CoreWeave
OpenBMC
$153-242k
+ Discretionary bonus + Equity awards
3 days a week in office
The essential cloud for AI
Open for applications
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$153-242k
+ Discretionary bonus + Equity awards
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To manage the complexities of AI growth to make supercomputing accessible and push the limits of what's possible.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 4+ of professional experience in firmware or embedded systems development, including direct work with Linux-based OpenBMC firmware
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems
- Hands-on experience with OpenBMC, Yocto Project, and embedded Linux environments
- Familiarity with hardware interfaces and protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, IPMI, DMTF Redfish)
- Experience with hardware bring-up, board-level debugging, and sensor integration
- Comfort with Linux kernel configuration, device trees, and BSP-level integration
- Working knowledge of source code control system such as Git
- Comfort with debugging tools such as GDB JTAG and debugging over serial or remote consoles
- Basic scripting skills in Python or Bash for build automation and validation
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking; able to break down complex system-level issues
- Communicates effectively with peers across hardware, firmware, and operations teams
- Self-driven with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable code
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment and balances multiple priorities effectively
Desirable
- Experience developing CI/CD pipeline for firmware builds and regression testing
- Exposure to large-scale datacenter or HPC environments
- Contributions to open-source firmware projects or upstream Linux development
What the job involves
- To accelerate datacenter deployment and management, CoreWeave is expanding its firmware engineering team to focus on developing and maintaining OpenBMC-based firmware for our next-generation Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs)
- As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware features that enable secure, scalable, and reliable control across CoreWeave’s high-performance compute infrastructure
- You’ll work independently on complex components, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, and help set best practices for firmware quality and performance
- Design & Implement: Develop and enhance OpenBMC firmware in C++ for CoreWeave’s custom server platforms, contributing to key subsystems such as sensor management, power and thermal control, networking, and system monitoring
- Integrate & Debug: Collaborate with hardware design, platform software, and reliability teams to integrate firmware with new hardware and validate performance across diverse environments
- Optimize: BMC Performance and Harden Security
- Root Cause Analysis: Perform deep system-level debugging using tools such as GDB, JTAG, or logic analyzers to resolve cross-layer issues between hardware, firmware, and OS
- Automate & Validate: Contribute to continuous integration and automated testing frameworks for OpenBMC build and validation
- Document & Share: Maintain clear technical documentation and participate in design reviews to ensure consistency and maintainability across the firmware codebase
- Collaborate Broadly: Partner with other ICs and technical leads across CoreWeave’s infrastructure engineering, hardware design, and operations teams to align firmware capabilities with platform and datacenter goals
Our take
As AI continues to dominate the tech landscape, the demand for faster, more efficient cloud infrastructure is only intensifying. Traditional cloud providers often struggle with the sheer speed and scale required to power advanced AI models, leaving a gap for more specialized players. And that's where CoreWeave comes in, a company purpose-built to handle the heavy computational lift that the AI era demands.
CoreWeave's story is an interesting one too. What began in 2017 as a small crypto mining venture has evolved into one of the leading AI-focused cloud providers in the world. Its data centers are packed with high-end GPUs optimized for machine learning and generative AI, serving major clients like Microsoft and OpenAI. By designing its infrastructure around the needs of modern AI workloads rather than retrofitting older systems, CoreWeave has carved out a distinct and highly valuable niche in the market.
That focus in paying off in a big way too. Analyst project CoreWeave's revenue to soar from $5.3B in 2025 to the mid-$20Bs by 2028, up from just $16M in 2022. While there is competition from tech giants like Amazon and Google, CoreWeave's speed, specialization, and bold investment strategy put in in avery powerful position to keep riding (and helping shape) the AI boom.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
194% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2024
$1.1bn
SERIES C
May 2023
$200m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.7bn
Company benefits
- 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
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Intrator
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Michael was a Principal Portfolio Manager at Natsource Asset Management for over 15 years. He also served as the CEO of Hudson Ridge Asset Management before co-founding CoreWeave in 2018.
Brian Venturo
(Co-Founder & CSO)Brian spent nearly 6 years at Natsource Asset Management as a Portfolio Manager before becoming a Partner at Hudson Ridge Asset Management. After co-founding CoreWeave he served as the CTO until 2024 when he moved into his current role of Chief Strategy Officer.
Brannin McBee
(Co-Founder & CDO)Brannin has a history in Proprietary Trading, having previously worked at Windy Bay Power and Active Power Investments. He also served as a VP at Fourth Floor Coastal and as an Associate at Elustria Capital PArtners.
Peter Salanki
(Co-Founder & CTO)Peter Previously served as a Director of Americas at Sandvine. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at Procera Networks as a Solutions Architect, Lead Architect, and Principal Solutions Architect.
Nitin Agrawal
(CFO)Nitin joined CoreWeave in 2024 as CFO. Prior to this, he was the VP of Finance at Google Cloud and CFO at Mapbox. He also spent nearly 5 years at AWS as CFO of Compute Services and 7 years at Microsoft as Group Manager of Finance.
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