# Phased Delivery SME; Staff Engineer **Company**: CoreWeave **Location**: Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco, CA / Bellevue, WA **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coreweave/jobs/4683528006?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_500788bd-712 ## Description We are building next-generation, gigawatt-scale AI data centers worldwide. As a Phased Delivery SME, you will be responsible for designing and governing the end-to-end phased delivery model that brings these campuses online safely, predictably, and at speed. 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. Key responsibilities include: - Defining and owning the enterprise phased delivery methodology for large-scale AI data center campuses - Establishing 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 - Building standardized phase definitions, entry/exit criteria, handoff checkpoints, go/no-go gates, and risk escalation paths - Creating the governance model that aligns construction progress, infrastructure readiness, safety, operations, and customer launch commitments You will 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. In this role, you will drive coordination across multiple workstreams that may be at different maturity levels within the same campus. You will ensure dependencies between civil, structural, MEP, controls, cooling, power, network, and compute deployment are fully understood and actively managed. You will lead executive-level alignment on sequencing decisions, constraints, tradeoffs, and recovery plans. Site readiness and handover excellence You will develop and institutionalize site readiness frameworks for phased turnover of buildings, yards, utility plants, data halls, grey space, and supporting operational areas. You will define operational acceptance criteria for spaces transitioning from construction control to facilities and IT control. You will ensure temporary conditions, shared systems, incomplete scope areas, and construction adjacency risks are clearly identified and managed. AI infrastructure and liquid cooling readiness You will integrate liquid cooling readiness requirements into the phased delivery strategy, including CDU readiness, fluid distribution, controls integration, leak detection, commissioning dependencies, and operational supportability. You will ensure compute deployment readiness is aligned to mechanical, electrical, controls, and networking milestones. Execution risk, controls, and recovery You will identify delivery, operational, safety, and customer risks introduced by phased occupancy and partial turnover models. You will build mitigation strategies for shared infrastructure, temporary power/cooling configurations, construction interference, access controls, and incomplete resiliency states. Standards, tools, and continuous improvement You will develop playbooks, templates, checklists, RACI models, dashboards, and lessons-learned mechanisms for repeatable global deployment. You will standardize how teams plan around mixed-mode sites where active construction and production operations coexist. You will use field feedback to continuously improve the phased delivery model for speed, safety, and predictability. Who you are - 15+ years of experience in data center delivery, mission-critical infrastructure, large capital projects, technical program management, commissioning, or operations leadership - Deep experience delivering complex facilities in phased, partially complete, or live-site conditions - A systems thinker who sees the whole site, not just one discipline, and understands the business impact of early, on-time, and delayed compute - Dissatisfied with the status quo, motivated to deliver faster, and with greater reliability and repeatability - Expert-level understanding of mission-critical MEP systems, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and turnover readiness - Relentless about sequencing, dependencies, and operational readiness - Comfortable making hard tradeoff calls when speed, risk, and quality are in tension - Highly respected by construction, engineering, commissioning, and operations teams alike - Proven ability to build scalable delivery patterns Required qualifications - Experience coordinating construction, facilities, and IT deployment workstreams in highly interdependent environments - Demonstrated success leading cross-functional execution for large, high-risk, high-visibility programs - Strong executive communication skills with the ability to simplify complex dependencies and drive decisions - Proven ability to operate as a senior individual contributor and influence across organizational boundaries Preferred qualifications - Experience with hyperscale, colocation, or AI/HPC data center deployments - Experience with liquid cooling infrastructure and high-density compute environments - Familiarity with phased occupancy, temporary operations, energization sequencing, and partial-system commissioning - Experience developing enterprise standards, playbooks, or delivery governance frameworks across multiple regions - Background in construction management, critical facilities operations, commissioning, mechanical/electrical engineering, or technical infrastructure program leadership - Experience working on global programs with multiple simultaneous site launches ## Skills ### Required - data center delivery - mission-critical infrastructure - large capital projects - technical program management - commissioning - operations leadership - construction management - critical facilities operations - mechanical/electrical engineering - technical infrastructure program leadership ### Nice to have - hyperscale - colocation - AI/HPC data center deployments - liquid cooling infrastructure - high-density compute environments - phased occupancy - temporary operations - energization sequencing - partial-system commissioning --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coreweave/jobs/4683528006?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)