Staff Production Engineer, Compute

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

Support virtualization, hypervisors, and kernel-level performance across compute infrastructure. Build automation and observability tools, scale KVM and QEMU platforms, debug kernel and hardware issues, optimize AI and HPC workloads, tune kernel subsystems, and validate emerging compute hardware.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in Compute SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure roles
  • Strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals
  • Experience with KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware
  • Familiarity with SmartNICs, DPUs, and kernel bypass techniques
  • Expert-level skill in Go, C, or Rust
  • Experience with kdump, kexec, and kernel panic analysis
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling and CI/CD practices
  • Strong understanding of compute scheduling, resource management, and high-throughput networking

Responsibilities

  • Develop automation and observability tools for compute infrastructure
  • Support and scale the virtualization stack
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and driver issues
  • Optimize hardware offloads and AI and HPC workloads
  • Perform root cause analysis for kernel crashes and integration problems
  • Integrate hypervisor enhancements for guest VM reliability and workload isolation
  • Tune process scheduling, NUMA configuration, memory management, and interrupt handling
  • Implement and validate support for SmartNICs, BlueField devices, and TPUs

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off and paid holidays
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Employer contributions to HSA account
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Professional development and tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Commuter benefits for parking and transit
  • Cell phone stipend
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
  • Volunteer time off