Senior Manager Engineering AI Inference
Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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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 lead a hands-on engineering team that optimizes large-language-model inference for production. You will profile and improve serving performance, develop production software, tailor customer deployments, and guide work from proof of concept through monitored production operation.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience managing and leading an engineering team in a high-performance or ML-focused environment
- Hands-on software engineering, low-level optimization, or ML infrastructure experience
- Experience shipping production code in Python or C++, with Python preferred
- Knowledge of high-throughput, low-latency LLM inference optimization
- Experience with vLLM or SGLang and kernel-level performance profiling
- Knowledge of GPU architecture and behavior
- Experience with large language models and AI/ML development and deployment pipelines
- Communication skills for explaining technical topics to customers and teammates
Responsibilities
- Bring current inference techniques into production and refine them
- Design and optimize serving architectures, including prefill and decode disaggregation and request routing
- Profile the serving stack and resolve performance problems down to CUDA kernels
- Adapt and scale optimization methods across ML models, especially large language models
- Tune deployments for latency, throughput, cost, and reliability
- Tailor deployments with customer engineering teams from proof of concept to monitored production
- Build and support production software and product features around the inference stack
- Run experiments, define specifications, and ship well-tested results
- Lead delivery from experiments to production optimizations and establish performance goals
- Partner on technical strategy and roadmaps
Benefits
- Equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays, and leave programs
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- Paid parental leave
- Life insurance and short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
