What You'll Do:
The Capacity Planning Organization at CoreWeave is responsible for ensuring our global datacenter infrastructure is optimized for scalability, efficiency, and reliability. This team plays a critical role in supporting the rapid growth of our cloud platform by forecasting and planning datacenter capacity—space, power, and cooling—on a scale unmatched by most. If you’re excited about solving complex infrastructure challenges and driving strategic decisions, this is the team to join.
About The Role:
As a Senior Capacity Planner, Datacenter Space & Power, you will be at the heart of our infrastructure planning, ensuring that our datacenters are equipped to meet the demands of our expanding cloud business. You’ll work closely with datacenter operations, network, and compute planning teams to align infrastructure deployments with power and space availability. Your day will involve building and maintaining complex capacity models, performing scenario analysis, and driving automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency.
In This Role You Will:
- Develop and maintain complex capacity models for future datacenter space and power deployment planning, incorporating all physical capacity limits.
- Perform scenario analysis to advise on infrastructure projects and optimize capacity utilization.
- Analyze power and cooling utilization trends, identify inefficiencies, and recommend optimizations to improve energy efficiency and sustainability.
- Support site selection, expansion, and build-out strategies by evaluating datacenter infrastructure capabilities and constraints.
- Work closely with datacenter operations, network, and compute planning teams to align infrastructure deployments with power and space availability.
- Develop KPIs and dashboards for real-time visibility into capacity utilization and manage space and power capacity.
- Apply data analysis to inform strategic business decisions, prioritizing operational trade-offs and capital spend.
- Collaborate with data engineering and tooling teams to drive automation initiatives to improve capacity planning and operational efficiencies.
- Analyze how datacenter infrastructure and design changes impact capacity and provide feedback to teams and upper management.
- Partner with Supply Chain, Delivery, and Datacenter teams to execute and minimize risks on hardware deployment plans across all data centers.
Who You Are:
- Minimum 7–9 years of prior experience in datacenter capacity planning, infrastructure planning, or a related role.
- Strong knowledge of datacenter power distribution (UPS, PDUs, generators, redundancy levels), cooling systems, and space planning.
- Understanding of server, storage, and networking hardware and their impact on datacenter resource utilization.
- Experience managing large data structures (Excel, SQL, Looker/Tableau) to build reports and run analysis.
- Ability to make recommendations in ambiguous environments.
- Ability to effectively work and communicate with cross-functional teams to coordinate operations and activities between departments.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Interest in creating and streamlining processes.
- Familiarity with DCIM (Datacenter Infrastructure Management) tools and automation frameworks preferred.
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’re curious about solving complex infrastructure challenges and enjoy working on new problems.
- You have love problem-solving with a proactive and strategic mindset.
- You're an expert in excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Why CoreWeave?
At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:
- Be Curious at Your Core
- Act Like an Owner
- Empower Employees
- Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
- Achieve More Together
The base salary range for this role is $134,000 to $179,000. 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
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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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CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, delivers a cloud platform of cutting-edge software powering the next wave of AI. The company's technology provides enterprises and leading AI labs with cloud solutions for accelerated computing. Since 2017, CoreWeave has operated a growing footprint of data centers across the US and Europe. CoreWeave was ranked as one of the TIME100 most influential companies and featured on Forbes Cloud 100 ranking in 2024. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
Why Work With Us
At CoreWeave we work hard, have fun and move fast! Today we are a small, growing team of intelligent, genuine people, that value different perspectives and approaches to solving complex problems. We foster an environment that champions collaboration and prioritizes innovative solutions. Here, you are surrounded by the best.
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