Director of Solutions Engineering, Crusoe Energy Systems
Cloud
$280-350k
Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Job no longer available
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$280-350k
Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers
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 8+ years of experience architecting, building, or operating cloud-based applications or infrastructures, with a strong focus on AI/ML workloads, high-performance computing (HPC), or graphics applications
- Have experience leading or managing technical teams, with the ability to inspire and drive high performance
- Possess deep expertise in cloud technologies and modern infrastructure tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Terraform
- Hold a professional cloud certification (AWS, Azure, or GCP Solutions Architect) or equivalent
- Have a customer-first mindset, with a passion for driving customer success through technical solutions and strategic advisory
- Excel in a cross-functional environment, able to collaborate across Sales, Product, and Engineering to deliver cohesive solutions
- Can communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where you can make a meaningful contribution to the success of both customers and the company
- Embody the Company values
What the job involves
- Crusoe Cloud is seeking a dynamic and experienced Director of Solutions Engineering to lead our Solutions Engineering team, playing a critical role in enabling customers to deploy AI workloads seamlessly, cost-effectively, and at scale
- You will be at the forefront of driving technical engagements across pre-sales and post-sales efforts, working closely with our largest and most strategic customers to ensure their success on Crusoe
- This role involves leading a high-performing team of technical experts, acting as trusted advisors, and ensuring customers experience the full value of Crusoe’s sustainably powered AI infrastructure
- You’ll collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams, aligning efforts to build best-in-class solutions for AI/ML workloads
- This is a unique opportunity to help shape and grow an essential vertical from the ground up, influencing both customer success and Crusoe’s growth strategy
- Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team: Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of domain experts who provide technical guidance and support to customers across all stages of their journey, acting as trusted advisors in deploying AI workloads on Crusoe
- Serve as the Primary Technical SME: Act as a technical subject matter expert for all customer-facing engagements, ensuring AI workloads are deployed in the most secure, scalable, and efficient way possible
- Drive Customer Success: Partner with customers to deeply understand their needs and challenges, guiding them through the deployment lifecycle with best practices, reusable templates, and innovative solutions to help them achieve their goals
- Support Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Efforts: Work closely with the Sales and Business Development teams to support customer PoCs, provide technical demonstrations, and ensure smooth transitions from pre-sales to full deployment
- Optimize Workloads and Solutions: Lead efforts to benchmark, validate, and optimize AI workloads for maximum performance, ensuring that customers are running the most efficient solutions possible
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to align technical strategies with business objectives, ensuring seamless integration of customer feedback into the product roadmap and a unified approach to customer success
- Evangelize Crusoe Cloud Solutions: Represent Crusoe at industry events, lead customer-facing presentations and workshops, and contribute to the development of technical content such as blogs, case studies, and white papers
- Champion Customer Needs: Act as the voice of the customer, advocating their technical requirements internally and influencing Crusoe’s product direction to meet market demands
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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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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