Director of Engineering Flex Compute

Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.

Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026

Denver, United States
About Crusoe, Inc.

Crusoe designs, builds, and operates energy-first AI infrastructure. Its offerings include Crusoe Cloud for GPU-based training, fine-tuning, inference, and managed services, alongside AI-optimized data centers and energy infrastructure.

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About the Role

You will define the architecture and deliver a production control system for flexible compute. You will orchestrate curtailment, power management, fleet telemetry, and grid-event ride-through; integrate cloud and energy systems; and hire and lead the engineering organization.

Requirements

  • At least 12 years of software engineering experience
  • At least 5 years leading engineering teams
  • Experience taking systems from initial development to production scale
  • Experience with distributed control planes, orchestration, or fleet automation
  • Experience with safety-critical or physically actuating systems
  • Working knowledge of data-center power systems and GPU power management
  • Experience with energy markets or grid programs, or demonstrated ability to gain fluency
  • Build-versus-buy judgment
  • Experience hiring senior engineers and operating highly reliable systems

Responsibilities

  • Own curtailment orchestration and decision-making for grid signals, staged shedding, and power capping
  • Deliver a utility-validated pilot with telemetry and a test harness
  • Deliver dynamic power management for oversubscription
  • Build workload-aware GPU power estimation using fleet telemetry
  • Design authenticated signal ingress, bounded blast radius, fail-safe defaults, and manual backstops
  • Own ride-through for power-loss and grid-stress events
  • Partner on interconnection commitments, curtailment programs, and battery and generation integration
  • Integrate power controls with Kubernetes and Slurm fleets
  • Evaluate vendor power-management and grid-integration systems
  • Hire and lead the engineering team

Benefits

  • Equity packages
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Leave of absence programs
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Employer HSA contributions
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life insurance
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Commuter benefits
  • Cell phone stipend
  • 401(k) plan with up to 4% company match
  • Volunteer time off
  • Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
  • Daily meals allowance
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