Senior Staff Software Engineer Founding BMC
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 BMC firmware architecture and platform bring-up across Crusoe’s server platforms. You will own embedded Linux, build and release pipelines, security architecture, telemetry, reliability, and fleet operations. You will lead ODM and OEM partnerships, define technical direction, and hire, mentor, and grow the BMC engineering team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of firmware engineering experience with deep BMC experience
- Hands-on expertise with OpenBMC, AMI MegaRAC, or equivalent
- Experience leading BMC bring-up on new server platforms
- Strong C/C++ on embedded Linux
- Comfort with Python or shell
- Familiarity with IPMI 2.0, Redfish, PLDM, MCTP, and NC-SI
- Experience debugging eSPI, LPC, IPMB, KCS, and BT interfaces
- BS/MS in CS, EE, CompE, or equivalent experience
- Experience with ODM/OEM BMC firmware partnerships preferred
- Familiarity with Yocto or BitBake preferred
Responsibilities
- Define BMC architecture and stack strategy
- Lead BMC bring-up on new server platforms
- Own BMC build, CI/CD, signing, and release pipelines
- Drive BMC security architecture
- Lead ODM and OEM technical relationships
- Own BMC platform requirements and architecture reviews
- Drive firmware prototyping, qualification, and production readiness
- Build BMC telemetry and observability
- Define firmware SLOs and update and rollback strategies
- Hire and grow the BMC engineering team
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
- 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