Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Foundations, Managed AI
$208-253k
+ Equity, Restricted Stock Units and bonus
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$208-253k
+ Equity, Restricted Stock Units and bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a Staff-level or equivalent technical leadership role
- System Design Mastery: A proven track record of designing, building, and scaling distributed systems in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Technical Proficiency: Expert-level skills in languages such as Go, Python, or Rust, and deep experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Infrastructure Background: Strong understanding of networking, storage, and compute fundamentals, specifically as they relate to GPU-accelerated workloads or AI training/inference
- Problem Solving: The ability to take a vague business goal and decompose it into a multi-quarter technical execution plan
- Soft Skills: Exceptional communication skills and the "social capital" to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority
Desirable
- Direct experience with Managed AI services (Vertex AI, SageMaker, etc.) or LLM orchestration frameworks
- Deep knowledge of low-level systems programming or high-performance networking (InfiniBand, RDMA)
- Contributions to open-source projects in the cloud-native or AI/ML space
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer in our Foundations department, you will be a technical pillar for the Managed AI initiative
- You will tackle the most complex, mission-critical challenges involved in building a world-class AI orchestration platform
- This is a high-leverage role where your architectural decisions will impact the productivity of every engineer at Crusoe and the performance of our global AI infrastructure
- You will spend your time navigating deep technical ambiguity, mentoring senior engineers, and ensuring our foundational systems are scalable, secure, and resilient
- Technical Strategy & Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable systems that underpin our Managed AI offerings
- System Ownership: Drive the long-term technical roadmap for the Foundations team, ensuring our infrastructure can support rapid growth and evolving AI workloads
- Cross-Functional Influence: Work across Cloud Engineering to align technical goals, solve complex integration hurdles, and ensure high engineering standards across the organization
- Code & Mentorship: Lead by example through high-quality code contributions, thorough design reviews, and by mentoring Senior and Staff-level peers
- Operational Excellence: Champion reliability, observability, and performance. You will be responsible for identifying and resolving systemic bottlenecks before they become outages
- Innovation: Stay at the forefront of AI infrastructure trends to ensure Crusoe is utilizing the most efficient and powerful tools available
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 $1.4B in its latest 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
LoDo, 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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