Principal Operational Readiness Engineer

About the role

This role is focused on design compliance, operational readiness, and cross-functional coordination across all phases of design, construction, commissioning, fit-out, and operational handoff. The Principal Operational Readiness Engineer will perform deep operational and technical reviews of projects to identify gaps in process execution, design validation, construction coordination, turnover readiness, and quality assurance practices. You will evaluate whether critical infrastructure systems, construction activities, commissioning efforts, and operational handoff procedures are being executed in accordance with project requirements, standards, and best practices. This individual must be comfortable rapidly assessing current-state execution, identifying risk, and driving actionable mitigation and recovery plans to resolution. In this role, you will: Perform deep operational and technical reviews of active projects to identify gaps in design validation, process execution, construction coordination, turnover readiness, and quality assurance. Assess whether critical infrastructure systems, construction activities, commissioning efforts, and operational handoff procedures are being executed in accordance with project requirements, standards, and best practices. Identify deficiencies, breakdowns in coordination, incomplete validations, and missing controls that could impact schedule, reliability, scalability, or operational readiness. Develop and drive corrective action, mitigation, and recovery plans through resolution for distressed or high-risk infrastructure projects. Partner closely with Design, Construction, Operations, Network Engineering, Commissioning, and external contractors to improve coordination, strengthen execution discipline, and ensure projects are delivered to CoreWeave's operational and technical standards. Review project documentation including construction drawings, MEP designs, RFIs, submittals, schedules, turnover packages, and change orders to validate project readiness and execution quality. Monitor project dependencies, sequencing, and critical path risks across large-scale data center build and fit-out programs. Support the successful turnover of projects into operations by validating readiness, identifying gaps, and driving issue resolution before handoff.