Senior Staff Network Engineer Deployment
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 the global strategy for deploying network infrastructure across data centers, edge sites, and backbone interconnects. You will define standards, architect deployment automation, establish validation criteria, guide network architecture, lead vendor strategy, manage capacity planning, and mentor network deployment engineers.
Requirements
- 12+ years of network engineering experience
- Experience with large-scale data center deployments and infrastructure programs
- Experience authoring standards, mentoring engineers, and leading multi-quarter initiatives
- Experience operating large-scale multi-region network fabrics
- Expertise in structured cabling, optical transceivers, and data center power and cooling
- Hands-on experience with Arista EOS, Juniper Junos, and NVIDIA/Mellanox platforms
- Strong knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and LLDP
- Experience designing deployment automation systems
- Strong Python and Ansible skills
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code and CI/CD patterns
- Experience leading complex deployment programs
- Ability to diagnose physical and link-layer issues with OTDRs, light meters, and packet captures
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Define the global network deployment strategy
- Author and ratify network deployment standards
- Shape network architecture for deployability
- Set the technical direction for ZTP, IaC, and validation tooling
- Establish burn-in, site acceptance testing, and commissioning criteria
- Lead vendor and partner strategy
- Drive capacity planning and hardware lifecycle strategy
- Mentor network deployment engineers
- Lead design and post-incident 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