Director, Engineering

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

We’re looking for a seasoned engineering leader to own and scale the GPU and data center infrastructure that powers our neocloud platform. This hands-on leadership role sits at the intersection of software and hardware. You’ll lead the teams building validation platforms, lifecycle automation, and orchestration services that keep our fleet healthy, while also owning firmware qualification, hardware security, deployments, and data center operations across a fleet growing roughly 10x year over year. Our fleet runs under a 99.5% monthly availability SLA, so your reliability and automation work is directly tied to revenue.

You’ll set the technical charter for fleet reliability and operational excellence, defining north-star availability metrics and building automation that replaces today’s manual processes. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, Finance, and the executive team. The ideal candidate scales through systems rather than headcount, reasons from first principles, and leads from the front by digging into root causes. This is a full-time, senior leadership position.

• 18+ years of experience in infrastructure, data center operations, or fleet management, including 6+ years in a senior leadership role

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Deep hands-on expertise with GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA or AMD accelerator platforms

• A genuine blend of software and hardware leadership, with equal credibility driving platform/automation software (workflow engines, orchestration, validation pipelines) and physical-layer DC operations

• Experience operating or scaling data center infrastructure in a high-growth environment such as a neocloud, hyperscaler, or large enterprise

• Strong command of DC fundamentals: power distribution, cooling systems, networking fabrics, and physical security

• Proven ability to manage vendor relationships and negotiate large-scale infrastructure contracts ($50M+), and to own large CapEx budgets in partnership with Finance and Procurement

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex infrastructure topics for executive and non-technical audiences

• Prior experience at a neocloud or AI infrastructure company, and familiarity with GPU failure modes and auto-remediation techniques

• Hands-on experience with firmware qualification, BMC/OpenBMC development, or hardware attestation (TPM, secure boot, remote attestation)

• Familiarity with InfiniBand, RoCE, or other high-performance networking fabrics at scale

• Experience building validation/burn-in platforms and multi-node performance benchmarking (e.g., MFU, collective communication tests)

• Exposure to DCIM, asset management/RFID, or lifecycle automation and fleet orchestration tools (e.g., NetBox, Temporal), or a background in sustainability initiatives such as renewable energy procurement