Senior Staff Linux Kernel 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 set the technical direction for the Linux kernel team, own the roadmap, architect critical development projects, and write hands-on kernel code. You will develop virtualization technologies and device drivers, optimize kernel subsystems, analyze OS and hardware issues, address security vulnerabilities, and mentor systems engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of systems software engineering experience
- At least 3 years in a technical leadership role managing low-level systems or infrastructure teams
- Expert knowledge of Linux kernel internals
- Expert knowledge of KVM, Xen, or QEMU
- Strong C programming skills
- Fluency with kernel patch submission and debugging security vulnerabilities
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python
- Familiarity with CI/CD and deployment automation tooling
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for the Linux kernel team
- Own the kernel roadmap
- Architect critical development projects
- Design and implement virtualization technologies
- Develop and maintain upstream-first kernel code and device drivers
- Optimize memory management, scheduling, and I/O subsystems
- Perform root-cause analysis across OS and hardware layers
- Lead kernel CVE triage and backporting
- Build vulnerability analysis tooling
- Mentor engineers and conduct code reviews
Benefits
- Equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Leave of absence programs
- 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
- Global travel insurance
- Emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Location-specific perks and programs