Coreweave Director of Data Center Engineering at CoreWeave leading a multidisciplinary engineering team. Responsible for setting technical direction and governing design standards for global data center portfolio.
Responsibilities
Engineering Team Leadership & Development: Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of engineering subject matter experts across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, architectural, civil, structural, controls, and other critical infrastructure disciplines. Establish clear expectations, foster accountability, and support the professional growth of the engineering team.
Technical Strategy & Direction: Establish the technical vision and engineering strategy for CoreWeave’s global data center portfolio, ensuring infrastructure solutions align with business objectives, customer requirements, deployment timelines, and the evolving needs of high-density AI compute.
Basis of Design Governance: Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of CoreWeave’s Basis of Design. Ensure requirements are technically sound, clearly documented, consistently interpreted, and updated to reflect lessons learned, operational feedback, technology advancements, and changing business needs.
Engineering Design Roadmap: Develop and maintain a long-term design roadmap for future data centers, identifying the infrastructure architectures, capacity requirements, technologies, and engineering capabilities needed to support emerging compute platforms and increasing rack densities.
Multidisciplinary Engineering Integration: Ensure mechanical, electrical, architectural, civil, structural, controls, life-safety, and other engineering disciplines are coordinated into cohesive infrastructure solutions. Partner with Data Center Technology to integrate low-voltage, structured cabling, network, and white space technology requirements.
Partnership with Design Management: Work closely with Data Center Design Management to define technical requirements, establish design review milestones, resolve engineering issues, evaluate proposed changes, and support timely delivery of coordinated, constructible design packages.
Design Reviews & Technical Assurance: Set expectations for technical design reviews and lead evaluations of critical drawings, specifications, calculations, equipment selections, control sequences, studies, and commissioning documentation. Ensure design risks, gaps, and interdisciplinary conflicts are identified and resolved.
Technical Decision-Making & Escalation: Serve as the senior escalation point for complex engineering challenges and decisions. Facilitate alignment among internal subject matter experts and give the VP of Design and executive leadership clear options, risk assessments, and recommendations.
Infrastructure Performance & Operational Feedback: Collaborate with Operations and Commissioning to review system performance, reliability events, commissioning findings, capacity limitations, and operational trends. Translate findings into corrective actions and improvements to standards, reference designs, and future project requirements.
Continuous Improvement & Lessons Learned: Establish a structured process for capturing lessons learned from design, construction, commissioning, and operations. Ensure validated improvements are incorporated into the Basis of Design, reference designs, specifications, and engineering processes.
Innovation & Technology Evaluation: Lead the technical evaluation of emerging data center technologies, including advanced cooling, liquid cooling, power distribution, energy storage, controls, modular infrastructure, and other systems supporting high-density compute. Develop recommendations for testing, standardization, and deployment at scale.
Reliability, Efficiency & Sustainability: Drive engineering initiatives that improve infrastructure reliability, energy and water efficiency, sustainability, scalability, maintainability, and total cost of ownership without compromising performance or deployment speed.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering field.
15+ years of progressively responsible experience in data center engineering, infrastructure design, construction, commissioning, or operations, including at least 8 years in an engineering leadership or people-management role.
Demonstrated experience leading, developing, and coordinating multidisciplinary teams of technical engineers and subject matter experts across mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, architectural, plumbing, controls, fire protection, and life-safety disciplines.
Recognized technical expertise in planning and engineering large-scale, high-density data centers, including greenfield developments, single-building facilities, and multi-building campuses.
Proven experience developing, maintaining, and governing Basis of Design documents, reference designs, technical standards, engineering specifications, and long-term infrastructure design roadmaps.
Strong knowledge of critical data center infrastructure, including utility services, medium- and low-voltage power distribution, substations, UPS systems, generators, cooling plants, liquid-cooling systems, water systems, BMS and controls, fire protection, and life-safety systems.
Proven ability to evaluate complex engineering challenges, reconcile competing technical requirements, and make clear, risk-informed decisions that balance reliability, scalability, efficiency, constructability, maintainability, cost, and speed to market.
Experience providing technical oversight across multiple concurrent projects, locations, delivery models, and stages of development, from early feasibility and master planning through detailed design, construction, commissioning, and operational turnover.
Experience leading multidisciplinary technical reviews of engineering calculations, studies, drawings, specifications, equipment selections, sequences of operation, commissioning plans, and proposed deviations from established standards.
Experience working with data center providers, developers, utility companies, A/E consultants, contractors, commissioning agents, equipment manufacturers, and technology partners.
Strong understanding of applicable building codes, engineering standards, regulatory requirements, safety requirements, and industry best practices for mission-critical facilities.
Excellent people-leadership skills, including the ability to establish technical accountability, manage performance, develop engineering talent, encourage knowledge sharing, and build a collaborative, high-performing team of subject matter experts.
Preferred
Advanced degree in engineering or a related field.
Professional Engineer (PE) licensure, or certifications such as LEED, Uptime Institute, or similar industry qualifications.
Demonstrated ability to identify, evaluate, and implement emerging data center technologies, particularly for high-density compute, advanced cooling, liquid cooling, power distribution, controls, modular infrastructure, and energy efficiency.
Ability to keep a portfolio-level perspective while engaging directly in the details needed to resolve critical project issues.
Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and translate technical and business requirements into actionable project plans.
Ability to identify developing risks early, set practical mitigation strategies, and communicate recommendations confidently to senior and executive leadership.
Track record of building productive relationships among internal teams, data center providers, A/E firms, contractors, consultants, and equipment suppliers.
At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:
