Principal Design Engineer
Crusoe is an AI infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates AI data centers and a cloud platform. It provides managed AI services, GPU compute, model fine-tuning and inference, and infrastructure operations for organizations building and deploying AI workloads.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Crusoe
Crusoe, the AI factory company, provides Crusoe Cloud and Crusoe Intelligence Foundry for AI development and production. Its offerings include managed inference, serverless fine-tuning, high-performance NVIDIA and AMD compute, accelerated storage, RDMA networking, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and operations tooling. The company also designs, builds, and operates modular AI data-center infrastructure using an energy-first approach, serving customers that need scalable training, inference, and AI platform infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will own full-lifecycle engineering design for the Spark modular data center product line. You will lead electrical, structural, and thermal design, apply design-for-manufacturing practices, ensure safety compliance, develop factory acceptance testing, manage external partners, lead liquid-cooling transitions, and deliver complete engineering packages.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline
- 10+ years of progressive engineering experience in data center design, modular infrastructure, or industrial power systems
- 10+ years of experience managing external design engineering partners with budget and schedule accountability
- Mastery of medium-voltage power distribution
- Expertise in structural analysis for containerized systems
- Knowledge of heat transfer fundamentals
- Experience with seismic and wind load calculations
- Expert knowledge of NFPA 70E and arc flash hazard analysis
- Knowledge of UL and CE compliance
- Proficiency with CAD/BIM platforms, electrical single-line design tools, or thermal simulation software
- Master's degree and active PE license are strongly preferred
- HPC and large-scale AI workload experience is preferred
- Agency certification experience is preferred
- Experience scaling products from prototype through high-volume production is preferred
Responsibilities
- Drive medium- and low-voltage electrical architecture
- Lead structural enclosure design
- Lead thermal management for DLC and CDU systems
- Apply design-for-manufacturing practices to design revisions
- Ensure compliance with UL, CE, NEC, NFPA, and OSHA standards
- Develop and improve factory acceptance testing protocols
- Manage external design firms and specialty consultants
- Lead systems engineering for the transition to liquid cooling
- Own drawings, specifications, BOMs, and interface control documents
- Deliver engineering packages for manufacturing handoff
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Professional development
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off