Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Model Lifecycle

Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.

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Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

Denver, United States
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

Build a managed platform for the AI application development lifecycle, including fine-tuning systems and training pipelines for foundation models, multi-node orchestration and failure recovery, reinforcement learning and distillation workflows, and management of datasets, models, experiments, evaluations, and lineage.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 8+ years of industry experience leading impactful AI projects
  • Experience in Generative AI, large language models, and multimodal models
  • Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, and aligning LLMs with reinforcement learning and reinforcement fine-tuning
  • Proactive and collaborative approach with the ability to work autonomously
  • Passion for building cutting-edge AI products and solving challenging technical problems
  • Proficiency in Golang or Python
  • Proficiency with PyTorch

Responsibilities

  • Manage fine-tuning systems for foundation models
  • Orchestrate multi-node training and checkpointing
  • Implement end-to-end LLM training pipelines
  • Develop reinforcement learning and reinforcement fine-tuning workflows
  • Build distillation and preference or policy optimization pipelines
  • Manage dataset, model, and experiment versioning
  • Maintain lineage and evaluation systems
  • Enable reproducible fine-tuning at scale

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