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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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 help build a managed platform for the full application development lifecycle, focused on machine learning models and LLMs. You will manage fine-tuning systems for large foundation models, implement training pipelines, work on reinforcement learning and distillation, and handle dataset, model and experiment management at scale.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 4-5+ years of industry experience leading impactful projects in the AI space
- Experience in Generative AI (LLMs, Multimodal)
- Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning and aligning LLMs using Reinforcement Learning and RFT
- Proactive and collaborative approach with ability to work autonomously
- Passion for building cutting-edge AI products and solving challenging technical problems
Responsibilities
- Manage fine-tuning systems for large foundation models (SFT, PEFT, LoRA, adapters) including multi-node orchestration, checkpointing, failure recovery and cost-efficient scaling
- Implement and maintain end-to-end training pipelines for Large Language Models
- Apply RFT and reinforcement learning to fine-tuning and training
- Build distillation and reinforcement learning pipelines (preference optimization, policy optimization, reward modeling)
- Manage datasets, models and experiments: versioning, lineage, evaluation and reproducible fine-tuning at scale
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off & paid holidays
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
