Staff Linux Kernel Engineer
Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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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 set technical direction for Linux kernel development and lead critical projects from design through upstream production. You will analyze OS and hardware issues, manage kernel CVEs, develop and review kernel subsystems, build virtualization for GPU workloads, optimize efficiency, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of Linux kernel internals, including memory management, scheduler, networking, storage, I/O, or device drivers
- Strong C programming skills
- Fluency with kernel development workflows, patch submission, mailing lists, and Lore
- Experience with CVE analysis, exploitability assessment, and backporting fixes
- Ability to set technical direction and drive projects end to end
- Knowledge of virtualization technologies such as KVM, Xen, or QEMU
- 10+ years of systems software engineering experience on low-level systems or infrastructure teams
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own the Linux kernel roadmap
- Architect and lead kernel features, security patching infrastructure, and deployment systems
- Perform root-cause analysis across OS and hardware layers
- Lead kernel CVE triage and backporting
- Build automated tooling for vulnerability analysis
- Develop and review Linux kernel code
- Contribute changes upstream to the Linux kernel community
- Design and implement virtualization technologies for GPU-accelerated AI and HPC workloads
- Optimize kernel efficiency, memory management, hugepages, and memory overcommit
- Mentor and review work from engineers
Benefits
- Equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Leave of absence programs
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
