Engineering Manager, Crusoe Energy Systems
Data Platform
$215-260k
+ Bonus & Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$215-260k
+ Bonus & Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a total of 7+ years in data engineering or software engineering
- Technical Depth: A strong background in the modern data stack (Python, SQL, Airflow/Dagster, BigQuery/Snowflake,Kafka, Flink) and cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS). You should be able to lead deep-dive technical discussions
- Execution Focus: Proven track record of delivering complex, multi-quarter technical projects on time and at high quality
- Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical challenges into business impact for stakeholders and executives
- People-First Mindset: A passion for mentorship and a demonstrated ability to help engineers level up in their careers
- Analytical Thinking: Experience building data-driven cultures where decisions are backed by metrics and rigorous testing
Desirable
- Experience with bare metal, hyperscaler clouds, or GPU infrastructure
- Deep familiarity with AI/ML data requirements or high-performance computing (HPC) environments
- Experience at a high-growth startup where you had to "build the plane while flying it."
What the job involves
- As the Engineering Manager for the Data Team, you will lead a high-impact team of data engineers responsible for the foundation of Crusoe’s AI and cloud intelligence. You will bridge the gap between technical execution and business strategy, ensuring our data infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and provides actionable insights for our climate-aligned energy and AI operations
- Your success will be measured by the growth of your engineers, the reliability of our data platform, and your ability to execute a roadmap that supports Crusoe’s mission-critical data needs
- Team Leadership & Mentorship: Manage, coach, and grow a team of data engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide career development guidance, and foster a culture of high performance and psychological safety
- Strategic Roadmap: Partner with Product, Data Science, and Cloud Leadership to define the long-term vision and quarterly OKRs for the data platform
- Technical Oversight: While you may not be writing code daily, you will participate in design reviews and ensure the team is building scalable, maintainable architectures (Data Lakes, Warehouses, and ETL frameworks)
- Operational Excellence: Drive engineering best practices, including CI/CD, data quality monitoring (observability), and incident management processes
- Recruitment: Lead the hiring process to scale the team, focusing on attracting diverse, world-class engineering talent
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as the primary point of contact for data stakeholders across the company, ensuring the data team is unblocked and focused on the highest-priority initiatives
Our take
Crusoe is tackling one of the biggest challenges facing the digital age: the enormous energy demand of data centres and AI infrastructure. As AI models grow more powerful, they require immense computing power (and therefor electricity) to train and operate. This surge in energy use has put some pressure on power grids, driven up costs, and raised environmental concerns. Crusoe is on a mission to make this process more sustainable by finding smarter, cleaner, and more efficient ways to power the data centres that drive modern computing.
The company started out by putting wasted energy to work. Originally known as Crusoe Energy, it captured natural gas that would otherwise be burned off ("flared") at remote oil sites and used it to power modular data centres. Today, Crusoe has evolved into a major player in AI infrastructure, designing and operating large-scale data centres near renewable or stranded energy sources. It's now one of a handful of "neocloud" companies (next-generation cloud providers focused on flexible, efficient computing for AI workloads). And its facilities are helping tech giants like OpenAI handle the massive computing requirements of training advanced AI models.
Recently, Crusoe has attracted some huge investor attention, tripling its valuation to over $10B and raising almost $1.4B in its 2025 funding round. It's building OpenAI's first major US data centre campus and even experimenting with bold new frontiers. In partnership with Starcloud, Crusoe plans to deploy the world's first space-based cloud computing infrastructure, powered by solar energy and orbiting the Earth by 2027. If successful, this could redefine how and where computing happens, opening up a cleaner, virtually limitless source of energy for AI's next generation.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$1.4bn
SERIES E
Dec 2024
$600m
SERIES D
Total funding: $2.5bn
Company benefits
- Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
- Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
- 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
- Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life's challenges
Company HQ
Union Station, Denver, CO
Leadership
Cully Cavness
(Co-Founder, COO & President)Began their career as an Energy Infrastructure Research Fellow before spending 3 years as a Business Development Manager at Recurrent Engineering and serving as CFO of Sword & Plough. They left their role as VP of Highlands Natural Resources to co-found Crusoe Energy Systems.
Chase Lochmiller
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Crusoe in 2018, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a Quantitative Trade at Jump Trading Group, and a Managing Director of Algorithmic Trading at KCG Holdings.
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