Staff Security Engineer, Firmware Security

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).