Staff Applied AI Engineer

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

Series E10 current maintainers7 active leads5 lead step-downs
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

You will partner directly with strategic customers to deploy, optimize and scale their models into production, owning the journey from benchmark POCs to production endpoints. You will tune inference engines, diagnose bottlenecks, lead technical discussions, handle onboarding, autoscaling and capacity planning, and publish technical content.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in a technical role with strong programming and production skills (Kubernetes, Docker, GPU servers)
  • Proven ability to lead technical discussions with customer engineers and leadership
  • Hands-on experience with inference engines (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM) and performance profiling
  • Strong command of KV-cache tuning, batching, parallelism, quantization and cost math
  • Solid knowledge of the open-source model landscape and hardware-model matching
  • Experience as an FDE, solutions engineer or inference engineer at an AI cloud, lab or provider
  • Hands-on background in fine-tuning/post-training (LoRA, SFT, DPO) or open-source engine contributions

Responsibilities

  • Scope workloads, define metrics (TTFT, throughput, cost/token), build benchmarks and lead technical POCs
  • Serve as technical lead for customer engineering teams through architecture reviews and rollout planning
  • Tune engines (KV cache, speculative decoding, parallelism, quantization) to hit performance targets
  • Profile and diagnose engine-level bottlenecks and deliver production fixes
  • Own customer onboarding, deployment, autoscaling, capacity planning and SLO monitoring
  • Optimize configurations for base, custom and fine-tuned models
  • Feed field insights into product roadmaps and contribute code to the inference engine and tooling
  • Publish reference architectures, cookbooks and technical blogs

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package tailored to local market standards
  • Pension contributions