Staff Applications Estimator

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack - from electrons to tokens - to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that - with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved - people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

Join Crusoe as a Staff Applications Estimator and play a vital role in driving sales growth by acting as the critical technical bridge between customer requests, sales strategy, and final manufacturing proposals. In this role, you will meticulously estimate project costs, ensure quotation accuracy, and manage the seamless handoff to internal engineering and production teams.

This role requires a detail-oriented professional with a strong technical foundation in electrical manufacturing, exceptional communication skills, and a collaborative spirit. Your work directly ensures the competitive pricing, scope accuracy, and overall profitability of Crusoe's custom infrastructure projects. This is a full-time position.

• Customer & Sales Liaison: Interface directly with customers and their technical consultants to clarify project scope, resolve technical ambiguities, and gather essential requirements for accurate bids.

• Scope of Work Development: Generate detailed, formal written Scope of Work (SOW) documents defining all services, deliverables, and specifications required for each project.

• Meticulous Scope Alignment: Align on project requirements and exclusions with excruciating detail, documenting all parameters prior to launching the hard bid process.

• Technical Document Review: Analyze customer-provided specifications, engineering drawings, wiring diagrams, and single-line schematics to confirm technical completeness and feasibility.

• Costing & Pricing Models: Develop, maintain, and refine standardized pricing tools, cost models, and BOM templates to streamline quoting by leveraging historical project data.

• BOM & Vendor Pricing: Collaborate with in-house engineering teams and vendor representatives to compile accurate Bills of Materials (BOMs) and secure current pricing and lead times.

• Vendor Quote Analysis: Validate technical pricing data and vendor quotes to ensure accuracy across electrical switchboards, switch gear, and custom modular buildings.

• Labor & Engineering Estimation: Calculate estimated labor hours for fabrication, painting, assembly, and wiring, incorporating necessary design engineering hours.

• Quotation Generation: Produce formal customer quotations and partner with the Applications Team to establish appropriate markups and strategic pricing.

• Business
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Provide accurate cost models and margin data to leadership to support strategic revenue and profitability targets.

• Lead by Example: Build and audit robust pricing tools to ensure consistency and accuracy across all outgoing bids while…