Director of Engineering, Crusoe Energy Systems
Flex Compute
$285-335k
+ Bonus +RSUs
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Posted today
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Posted today
$285-335k
+ Bonus +RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ leading engineering teams, ideally taking a system from 0→1 to production scale
- Deep experience with distributed control planes, orchestration, or fleet automation (e.g., Temporal, Kubernetes, Slurm)
- A track record with safety-critical or physically-actuating systems, where a misfire has a bounded, designed-for worst case
- Working knowledge of data-center power systems: utility interconnection, switchgear/UPS/BESS, rack/PDU distribution, power telemetry, and GPU power management
- Experience with energy markets or grid programs demand response, curtailable-load tariffs, ISO/RTO market signals (e.g., ERCOT, PJM, CAISO) or demonstrated speed to fluency in them
- Strong build-vs-buy judgment and comfort deciding with incomplete data
- A record of hiring senior engineers and running healthy operations for systems that must never fail silently
Desirable
- GPU cluster operations or AI cloud infrastructure experience
- Prior work in the energy sector: power generation, storage, utility software, or grid-scale controls
- Background in GPU power/performance modeling, DVFS, or turning research prototypes into production systems
- Experience with checkpoint/preemption for large training jobs or power-aware scheduling
What the job involves
- Own the curtailment orchestration and decision layer: grid-signal ingestion, staged shedding, per-SKU power capping without ever silently dropping a paid workload
- Land a utility-validated pilot: fast ramp to setpoint, tight accuracy, high-fidelity telemetry, and the test harness that proves it before we commit to a utility
- Deliver dynamic power management for oversubscription — more GPUs per megawatt with no customer-visible impact
- Build fast, workload-aware GPU power estimation, validated against fleet telemetry : the engine behind shed forecasting, oversubscription admission, and power planning for new silicon
- Design for safety: authenticated signal ingress, bounded blast radius, fail-safe defaults, manual backstops
- Own graceful ride-through of power-loss and grid-stress events, integrated with on-site battery and generation backstops
- Partner deeply with Data Center Engineering (mechanical, electrical, controls) and Energy teams on interconnection commitments, curtailment program design, and BESS/generation integration
- Integrate with our cloud control plane across Kubernetes and Slurm fleets : one control plane, not two
- Make build-vs-leverage calls across vendor power-management stacks and grid integration layers
- Hire and lead the team from the ground up, keeping headcount sublinear to fleet growth through automation
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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