Phased Delivery SME; Staff Engineer

Core Weave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers,
 Core Weave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables
 innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs,
 startups, and global enterprises, Core Weave combines superior infrastructure
 performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn
 compute into capability. Founded in 2017, Core Weave became a publicly traded
 company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at
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About the role:

We are building next-generation, gigawatt-scale AI data centers worldwide. These
 campuses are delivered in overlapping phases, often with active construction,
 live infrastructure turn-up, commissioning, IT deployment, and customer
 readiness occurring simultaneously across different parts of the same site.

 The Phased Delivery SME is a senior, strategic operator responsible for
 designing and governing the end-to-end phased delivery model that brings these
 campuses online safely, predictably, and s person is the connective
 tissue across development, design, construction, controls, commissioning,
 facilities operations, network and IT deployment, liquid cooling infrastructure,
 and first-workload readiness.

 In this role, you will set the standard for how partially complete sites
 transition from construction zones into operational AI capacity. You will create
 the frameworks, decision models, readiness gates, handoff criteria, risk
 controls, and cross-functional execution mechanisms needed to deliver data
 halls, utility capacity, grey space, white space, and liquid-cooled compute
 environments in tightly sequenced waves.

 This role requires deep experience operating in ambiguity, leading across
 functions without direct authority, and driving execution in environments where
 the site is simultaneously a construction project, a commissioning program, and
 a live production operation.

 What You’ll Do

 Phased Delivery Strategy and Governance

* Define and own the enterprise phased delivery methodology for large-scale AI
    data center campuses.
  
* Establish the operating model for delivering sites in progressive stages,
    from early utility readiness and shell completion through grey space fit-out,
    commissioning, IT installation, and customer workload activation.
  
* Build standardized phase definitions, entry/exit criteria, handoff
    checkpoints, go/no-go gates, and risk escalation paths.
  
* Create the governance model that aligns construction progress, infrastructure
    readiness, safety, operations, and customer launch commitments.

 Cross-Functional Orchestration

* Serve as the senior integrator across real estate development, design,
    construction, commissioning, facilities engineering, network deployment,
    server deployment, supply chain, security, EH&S, and operations.
  
* Drive coordination across multiple work streams that may be at different
    maturity levels within the same campus.
  
* Ensure dependencies between civil, structural, MEP, controls, cooling, power,
    network, and compute deployment are fully understood and actively managed.
  
* Lead executive-level alignment on sequencing decisions, constraints,
    tradeoffs, and recovery plans.

 Site Readiness and Handover Excellence

* Develop and institutionalize site readiness frameworks for phased turnover of
    buildings, yards, utility plants, data halls, grey space, and supporting
    operational areas.
  
* Define operational acceptance criteria for spaces transitioning from
    construction control to facilities and IT control.
  
* Ensure temporary conditions, shared systems, incomplete scope areas, and
    construction adjacency risks are clearly identified and managed.
  
* Partner with commissioning and operations leaders to enable safe turnover of
    partially completed environments without compromising future-phase execution.

 AI Infrastructure and Liquid Cooling Readiness

* Integrate liquid cooling readiness requirements into the phased delivery
    strategy, including CDU readiness, fluid distribution, controls integration,
    leak detection, commissioning…