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CoreWeave

1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at CoreWeave. Curated with comp bands.

Comp on the board: $182K–$242K base + equity.

On the board since Aug 2026 · still hiring

Our take

Why CoreWeave

A rare public-company FDE seat — you're the field arm for W&B Weave inside the AI-cloud that IPO'd, at a real base plus liquid-ish equity.

FDE type
Solutions engineering
Travel
Medium
Comp
Competitive
Stage
Public

A good fit if you're…

  • Engineers who want a public-company FDE with a settled comp structure
  • Applied-AI people who like observability and agent tooling
  • Those who'd rather ship reference implementations than own whole accounts

What they do

CoreWeave (Nasdaq: CRWV) is an AI-native cloud provider that acquired Weights & Biases in 2025 and now sells the W&B/Weave developer stack alongside GPU capacity. This FDE seat is the field arm for that software layer — specifically Weave, the LLM/agent observability toolkit — rather than for the raw infrastructure.

What “forward deployed” means here

Closer to solutions engineering than true embedded FDE work: you sit inside customer AI-engineering teams to prototype and productionize agents on Weave, build reference implementations and demos, run enablement workshops, and route field learnings back to the product roadmap. It's the board's first Weave-observability field seat since the acquisition, so scope is yours to define within a public company's guardrails.

Comp & leveling

$182K–$242K base plus equity is a rare public-company FDE band — lower ceiling than the frontier labs, but a real, disclosed base and equity you can actually value on a public ticker. San Francisco / Sunnyvale leveling; 3+ years in software, ML, or applied-AI roles.

Growth signals

CoreWeave is scaling aggressively post-IPO and building out the W&B product line (Serverless RL, agent tooling, governance workspaces mapped to NIST/EU AI Act). A first-of-its-kind field seat inside a fast-moving public company means upside if the Weave motion becomes a real revenue line.

Analysis updated 2026-09-08

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