Senior Manager, R&D
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 lead people and programs within a growing R&D organization. You will recruit and develop technical team members, manage performance, establish operating processes, coordinate with engineering groups, oversee technology evaluations and pilots, manage external partnerships, and help advance infrastructure technologies from concept through deployment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of direct people management experience
- 5+ years of technical program or project management experience in infrastructure, manufacturing, data center, or related engineering environments
- Technical background covering data center infrastructure, power systems, cooling, and compute
- Experience building teams, functions, or organizational capabilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related discipline
Responsibilities
- Recruit, hire, and onboard R&D team members
- Conduct regular 1:1s and manage career development and performance
- Develop phased hiring roadmaps, role profiles, interview processes, and onboarding programs
- Manage technology evaluations, partner engagements, feasibility pilots, and cross-functional projects
- Establish intake workflows, project tracking, resource allocation, reporting cadences, and governance structures
- Coordinate planning and engagements between R&D and engineering teams
- Manage relationships with technology vendors, startups, and research partners
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays and leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits including parking and transit
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks and programs specific to location
