Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
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Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- If you are excited to build foundational infrastructure that turns tens of thousands of accelerators across sites into one cohesive, logical system, this role offers an unprecedented opportunity to do the most meaningful work of your career
- Production Systems Experience: Minimum of 2+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production (e.g., distributed services, control planes, schedulers, or observability pipelines)
- Distributed Systems Foundations: Demonstrated mastery of state reconciliation, retries and idempotency, consistency tradeoffs, and autonomous automation on live infrastructure
- Systems Programming Proficiency: Strong engineering fundamentals using a modern systems language such as Go, Rust, or C++
- Problem-Solving & Ownership: High comfort level working through ambiguous problem statements, proposing clear designs, and driving features from concept to production
- Shipping Mindset: A strong bias toward action and iterative delivery, favoring practical production software over over-engineered documentation
- Educational Background: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Desirable
- Hardware & HPC Familiarity: Hands-on experience or deep familiarity with GPU health telemetry, NVLink/InfiniBand/RoCE networking fabrics, or hardware thermal and power behavior
- Observability Architecture: Prior experience designing scalable observability and telemetry pipelines that span compute, storage, and networking layers
- Scheduler Internals: Familiarity or direct exposure to Kubernetes internals, Slurm, or other distributed orchestrator ecosystems
- Statistical Methods & ML: Experience applying statistical methods, anomaly detection, or time-series forecasting to noisy operational data for predictive maintenance
- Zero-Trust Security: Knowledge of zero-trust architectures, policy-based access systems, or automated multi-tenant audit streaming
What the job involves
- Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence by building the world’s only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company from the ground up
- As a Software Engineer on the Cloud Availability Platform team, you will help build Conductor—our self-driving control plane designed to predict, decide, and act autonomously to keep tens of thousands of accelerators running at peak efficiency
- In this role, you will play a direct part in solving the AI compute energy bottleneck by treating power as a control input rather than a static constraint
- Working alongside staff and principal engineers, you will have true ownership over greenfield services, building distributed systems that optimize power, cost, and useful compute in real time
- This is a full-time position tailored for a problem-solving engineer who thrives in ambiguity and has a strong bias toward shipping
- You will tackle rare infrastructure challenges—such as energy-aware compute scheduling, closed-loop remediation, and failure prediction on noisy hardware telemetry—transforming complex operational signals into a single, programmable control plane
- Core Responsibilities: Design, build, and operate greenfield distributed services, control planes, and closed-loop remediation systems that automatically drain, checkpoint, replace, and resume live AI workloads without manual intervention
- Communication & Collaboration: Partner closely with staff and principal engineers to review architectures, establish safety rails for autonomous operations, and share technical knowledge across the cloud services team
- Daily Interactions: Collaborate daily with cross-functional partners spanning hardware engineering, energy management, data center construction, and customer support to align system design with physical infrastructure
- Key Contributions: Own the development of core platform features such as unified observability pipelines, energy-aware compute scheduling, straggler detection, and self-qualifying hardware pipelines to maximize overall system goodput
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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