What You’ll Do:
The Security Engineering organization at CoreWeave is responsible for keeping the CoreWeave Cloud secure by design—from our data centers and GPU fleets all the way up to the platform layers that power our customers’ AI workloads. The Firmware Security function sits at the intersection of hardware, platform engineering, and infrastructure security, ensuring that the low-level software that runs on our servers, GPUs, and networking gear is trustworthy, up to date, and resilient to compromise.
This team defines and enforces the standards for secure firmware across our global fleet, builds the tooling to validate and attest device state at scale, and partners closely with data center operations and engineering teams to roll out changes safely. If you’re excited about securing BMCs, BIOS/UEFI, GPU and NIC firmware in massive AI clusters, this is the team to join.
About the Role:
As a Staff Firmware Security Engineer, you will be the technical lead for firmware security across CoreWeave’s infrastructure. You’ll design and drive the strategy for secure boot, firmware signing, attestation, and fleet-wide governance of firmware across servers, GPUs, and critical infrastructure devices. You’ll work hands-on with engineering teams, hardware vendors, and data center technicians to identify risks, ship durable controls, and respond to emerging threats in the firmware and hardware ecosystem. Your work will directly influence how securely we operate some of the largest GPU fleets in the world.
In this role, you will:
- Define the end-to-end firmware security architecture for CoreWeave’s server, GPU, and networking platforms, including root-of-trust, secure boot, and attestation flows.
- Design and implement secure boot and measured boot strategies across host, BMC, and accelerator firmware, leveraging TPM/TPM2 and hardware roots of trust.
- Build and maintain tooling and automation to inventory firmware, validate signatures and policies, manage firmware SBOMs, and enforce version baselines across large fleets.
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, and data center engineering teams to design safe rollout mechanisms for firmware updates, including canarying, rollback strategies, and blast-radius controls.
- Perform threat modeling, design reviews, and code reviews for firmware-related components and low-level platform software, identifying and mitigating security risks early in the lifecycle.
- Lead deep-dive investigations into firmware vulnerabilities and anomalous device behavior, coordinating incident response and remediation across cross-functional teams.
- Engage with hardware and OEM partners (e.g., server, GPU, and NIC vendors) to influence their security roadmaps, validate security features, and integrate vendor tooling into CoreWeave’s controls.
- Collaborate with Security Engineering peers to integrate firmware security signals into telemetry, detection, and SIEM pipelines for continuous monitoring.
- Establish standards, best practices, and documentation for firmware security, and mentor engineers across the organization in building secure-by-default infrastructure.
Who You Are:
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering, platform security, or systems/firmware engineering, including substantial work with server or device firmware.
- Deep understanding of firmware and platform security concepts, including secure/verified boot, measured boot, roots of trust, and attestation (e.g., TPM-based or vendor-specific solutions).
- Hands-on experience with server and BMC ecosystems (e.g., UEFI/BIOS, BMC/Redfish/IPMI, bootloaders) and how they interact with operating systems and hypervisors.
- Strong Linux systems background, including comfort working close to the hardware (kernel interfaces, device drivers, low-level debugging).
- Experience performing security reviews and/or reverse engineering of firmware or low-level code (e.g., UEFI, bootloaders, BMC firmware), using tools such as UEFITool, CHIPSEC, or similar.
- Proficiency in at least one systems programming or scripting language (e.g., C, C++, Rust, Go, or Python) and the ability to build automation and validation tooling.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influencing engineers and stakeholders across infrastructure, hardware, and operations teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to both deeply technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred:
- Experience securing GPU, accelerator, or HPC platforms, including familiarity with NVIDIA and/or other accelerator firmware stacks.
- Background working in a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or large-scale data center environment, ideally with exposure to bare metal and containerized workloads.
- Familiarity with supply chain security practices for hardware and firmware, including SBOMs, signing workflows, provenance tracking, and vendor qualification.
- Experience designing and operating attestation pipelines (e.g., validating device state before admitting workloads or granting higher-trust roles).
- Contributions to open-source firmware or security projects, security research publications, or notable vulnerability discoveries (CVE credits, bug bounties, etc.).
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
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. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.
- You love digging into how systems really work—from silicon and firmware up through the operating system—and you enjoy finding and fixing the weird edge cases.
- You’re curious about large-scale GPU infrastructure, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads, and how to make them secure without slowing teams down.
- You’re an excellent collaborator who can lead with context, bring others along on complex security decisions, and ship pragmatic solutions in a fast-paced environment.
The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $275,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and 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).
What We Offer
The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
- 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
Our Workplace
While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration
California Consumer Privacy Act - California applicants only
CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [email protected].
Export Control Compliance
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
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