Staff Solutions Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Job no longer available
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Have a technical degree (computer science, math, engineering) or equivalent work experience
- Have 6+ years of experience architecting, building, or operating cloud-based applications or infrastructures, with a focus on AI/ML workloads, high-performance computing (HPC), or graphics applications
- Possess deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and modern tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Terraform
- Have experience working directly with customers in technical roles, providing hands-on support to guide them through deployment and optimization of workloads
- Hold a professional cloud certification (AWS, Azure, or GCP Solutions Architect) or equivalent experience
- Thrive in a customer-obsessed environment where delivering exceptional technical solutions is the top priority
- Enjoy solving complex problems and finding innovative ways to optimize customer workloads for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency
- Are comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment where your technical contributions have a direct impact on both customers and Crusoe’s growth
What the job involves
- Crusoe Cloud is seeking a highly skilled Staff Solutions Engineer to work closely with our most strategic customers as they deploy AI/ML workloads on Crusoe Cloud
- This is a hands-on technical role, where your deep expertise in cloud infrastructure and AI technologies will be instrumental in ensuring our customers’ success
- You will act as a trusted advisor, guiding customers through the deployment and optimization of their AI workloads, ensuring they leverage Crusoe’s platform to its fullest potential
- This role offers an opportunity to engage directly with customers, support pre-sales and post-sales efforts, and contribute to building reusable, scalable solutions
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive technical excellence and customer satisfaction
- Technical Advisor to Customers: Act as a key technical resource for customers, providing expert guidance on deploying and optimizing AI/ML workloads on Crusoe
- Hands-On Solution Development: Work closely with customers to scope, deploy, and optimize AI workloads, leveraging modern cloud infrastructure tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Support Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Engagements: Partner with Sales and Customer Success teams to ensure smooth customer onboarding, from proof-of-concept (PoC) to full deployment, and provide technical support during the post-sales phase
- Optimize AI Workloads for Performance: Lead efforts to benchmark, validate, and optimize AI/ML workloads for performance and efficiency, ensuring customers achieve the best possible outcomes on Crusoe
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with Engineering and Product teams to influence Crusoe’s roadmap based on customer feedback and technical requirements, ensuring continuous platform improvement
- Customer-Facing Demonstrations and Education: Lead technical demonstrations, workshops, and discussions to educate customers on the benefits of Crusoe and how to best utilize the platform for their AI workloads
- Evangelize Crusoe Solutions: Contribute to technical content such as case studies, blog posts, and solution briefs, showcasing successful customer deployments and best practices
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
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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