CoreWeave
Senior Firmware Engineer, FPGA
New York, NY / Bellevue, WA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$182k-$242kDetected 23 days ago
PythonC++BashSpringGitLinuxFPGAVerilogEmbedded SystemsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- 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.
- The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000.
Responsibilities
- CoreWeave is expanding its firmware engineering organization to support next-generation AI compute platforms and the integrated firmware stack that powers them.
- As a Senior Firmware Engineer, FPGA & Platform Integration, you will design, implement, validate, and maintain FPGA-based platform functionality while ensuring clean integration with BMC firmware, BIOS, and hardware platforms deployed across CoreWeave's data centers.
- You will work independently on complex technical problems, partner closely with hardware, firmware, and systems teams, and help define best practices for platform reliability, observability, and maintainability.
- FPGA development - design, implement, and maintain FPGA logic for server-class or embedded platform functions, with a strong emphasis on Intel/Altera-based devices using Quartus.
- Platform integration - define and implement interfaces between FPGA logic and adjacent platform components including BMC firmware, BIOS, CPLDs, sensors, control paths, and board management functions.
- Bring-up and validation - support early hardware enablement, board bring-up, and validation across multiple hardware revisions and lab environments.
- Vendor collaboration - work directly with ODMs, silicon vendors, and firmware partners to review implementations, define requirements, and drive fixes or enhancements.
- Documentation - create and maintain clear technical documentation for FPGA architecture, interfaces, design assumptions, test procedures, and operational considerations.
- Technical leadership - participate in design reviews, mentor other engineers, and help raise the overall quality of firmware and platform integration work across the team.
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in firmware, embedded systems, or FPGA development for server-class, platform, or embedded systems.
- Strong proficiency in Verilog or SystemVerilog for RTL development.
- Strong proficiency in C or C++ for low-level firmware, embedded software, or platform integration work.
- Experience with board bring-up, hardware validation, and system-level debugging.
- Familiarity with common hardware interfaces and protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, PCIe, or related platform control paths.
- Experience debugging interactions across FPGA, firmware, BIOS, and hardware layers.
- Comfort working in Linux environments with Git-based development workflows.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex cross-layer failures.
- Experience integrating FPGA functionality with BMC firmware, BIOS, CPLDs, or other platform management components.
- Experience with LTPI or similar platform communication and management interfaces.
Skills
- CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000.
Benefits
- In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs.
- The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings
- 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
- Paid Parental Leave
- for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process.
- The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process.
Company info
- Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
- CRWV) in March 2025.
Equal opportunity
- Export Control Compliance
- This position requires access to export controlled information.
- CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
- careers@coreweave.com.
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