What You'll Do
We are building a global optical backbone designed to support infrastructure at massive scale. We are looking for experienced Optical Network Engineers to help design, build, operate, and evolve the optical network that underpins our global IP backbone.
This is a senior engineering role for engineers with deep, hands-on experience designing and operating production optical networks. You will work across the complete optical lifecycle, from dark fiber and photonic engineering through DWDM system design, deployment, capacity expansion, automation, monitoring, and production operations.
You will work closely with IP Backbone Engineering and Network Architecture to ensure that the optical and IP layers are designed together to provide predictable capacity, physical diversity, failure isolation, and resiliency.
We are specifically looking for engineers who understand the underlying optical network, not just how to configure individual platforms.
You will
- Design, engineer and operate long-haul, metro, and data-center interconnect optical networks.
- Engineer DWDM systems across dark-fiber infrastructure.
- Design optical paths including amplification, regeneration, wavelength planning, spectrum allocation, and optical power budgets.
- Engineer and operate C-band and L-band optical systems.
- Deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot Nokia, Ciena and other optical platforms.
- Commission new fiber spans, wavelengths, and optical systems.
- Perform fiber characterization and validate new dark-fiber routes before production deployment.
- Analyze span loss, connector loss, reflectance, dispersion, OSNR, Q-factor/Q-margin, BER, and other optical performance characteristics.
- Troubleshoot complex optical impairments and fiber-related issues using platform telemetry and appropriate optical test equipment.
- Design amplifier chains and understand EDFA and Raman amplification requirements.
- Engineer coherent optical transmission across metro and long-haul networks.
- Plan and execute network capacity expansions.
- Develop standards for optical network architecture, deployment, commissioning, and operations.
- Build monitoring and telemetry that identifies optical degradation before it becomes a production-impacting failure.
- Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for optical network events.
- Work directly with dark-fiber providers, carriers, data-center operators, and equipment vendors.
- Evaluate and qualify new optical platforms, coherent optics, and photonic technologies.
- Develop automation and tooling that allows the optical network to scale without equivalent growth in manual operational work.
- Mentor other engineers and help establish the technical standards and engineering culture of a new optical networking team.
What Success Looks Like
Successful engineers on this team will be able to independently take ownership of complex optical engineering problems. That might mean designing a new long-haul dark-fiber route, determining amplification and regeneration requirements, troubleshooting an unexpected Q-margin degradation, analyzing an OTDR trace after a fiber event, commissioning a new DWDM system, automating wavelength deployment, or working with IP Backbone Engineering to determine whether a proposed network design actually provides physical diversity.
Most importantly, you will help us build an optical backbone that can continue scaling while remaining understandable, observable, resilient, and operationally manageable.
Wondering if you're a good fit?
We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match.
Why CoreWeave?
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:
- Be Curious at Your Core
- Act Like an Owner
- Empower Employees
- Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
- Achieve More Together
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!
The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).
To fulfill our obligation to protect client data, successful applicants offered employment with CoreWeave will be required to complete a basic criminal record check, conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results.