Senior Staff Solutions Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
$175-250k
+ Equity + Bonus
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
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Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$175-250k
+ Equity + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Deep Kubernetes Expertise: 7+ years building and deploying containerized workloads. Experience with Helm, Terraform, Docker, and multi-node orchestration a must
- MLOps Deployment Experience: Demonstrated success deploying ML frameworks (e.g., Ray, MLflow, Airflow) on Kubernetes—especially for inference and model training workflows
- Hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge:Familiarity with compute, storage, networking, and scaling in AWS, GCP, or Azure. Experience translating workloads across clouds is highly desirable
- Customer-Facing Technical Confidence: Able to navigate stakeholder conversations, gather requirements, lead technical engagements, and support customers in both pre- and post-sales environments
- Strong Linux and CLI Proficiency:Comfortable operating in Linux environments and troubleshooting infrastructure issues via CLI
- Collaborative Energy: Strong communication skills and eagerness to partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and Sales to make customers successful
Desirable
- Experience with Ray, Kubeflow, or other distributed ML orchestration platforms
- Exposure to Slurm, but with a primary focus on containerized MLOps over traditional HPC
- Multi-cloud deployment or migration experience (especially AWS ➝ Crusoe transitions)
- Content contributions (tech talks, blogs, public case studies)
What the job involves
- Crusoe Cloud is seeking a Sr To Senior Staff level Solutions Engineer to work closely with our most strategic enterprise customers deploying AI/ML workloads on Crusoe’s high-performance GPU infrastructure
- This is a hands-on, customer-facing role requiring deep technical expertise in Kubernetes, MLOps, and cloud infrastructure
- You’ll guide customers through end-to-end deployment—owning the PoC process, optimizing workloads post-sale, and serving as a critical technical voice between our customers and engineering teams
- Ideal candidates are passionate about AI infrastructure, fluent in containerized environments, and confident in translating workloads across cloud platforms
- Customer Enablement: Lead technical onboarding and deployment of complex AI/ML workloads with strategic enterprise customers—owning the POC through to post-sales optimization
- Kubernetes + MLOps Focus: Architect and deploy ML workloads using Kubernetes-based stacks (e.g., Ray, Kubeflow) Design infrastructure that balances performance, scalability, and efficiency
- Infrastructure-Centric Thinking: Go beyond abstracted services—deploy and optimize AI/ML workloads directly on Crusoe infrastructure. Ensure performance at the container and hardware level
- Cross-Cloud Translation: Help customers migrate and adapt workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Understand and explain the tradeoffs between cloud-native and Crusoe-native approaches
- Technical Storytelling: Conduct workshops, live demos, and solution reviews. Contribute to case studies, solution briefs, and blog posts that highlight real-world customer success
- Voice of the Customer: Relay feedback to internal engineering and product teams to continuously improve Crusoe’s platform based on real-world implementation experience
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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