Principal NPI Engineering Manager - Spark

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 ut the Role:

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI Factory accelerating energy and compute infrastructure. We are seeking a New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineering Leader in the Spark Business Unit to bridge Spark Hardware Design with enterprise  this role, “hardware” and “product” refers to the physical infrastructure of the Spark module: structural steel modules, RPPs, DLC cooling loops, CDUs, chillers, piping headers, electrical and mechanical systems, and power distribution gear.

Compute hardware (servers, GPUs, storage, networking, and rack specifications) is owned by Cloud Product. Sitting on the Spark Hardware product team, you are the single-threaded owner ensuring the physical module is fully verified for handoff to manufacturing. You gather and lead everything needed to introduce Spark hardware modules into the Crusoe ecosystem, orchestrating the NPI phase-gate process to turn the design team’s output into one complete NPI packet.

You don’t run manufacturing. You equip and support Manufacturing and Supply Chain with clean design baselines, complete documentation, and qualified inputs to build t You'll Be Working On:

I. Gate Framework & Hardware Release Authority Framework Ownership:
Own the Spark hardware NPI framework (Concept to Launch) within the Spark BU to align design engineering progress with enterprise release readiness.

Release Authority:
Define design release readiness for physical Spark modules. Ensure design freeze and production gates clear only when product specs, subsystem verification tests, and manufacturing handoff criteria are fully met.

Design Package Quality:
Enforce gate discipline to resolve design, thermal interface, and electrical interference issues in engineering well before drawings and BOMs reach manufacturing, such that manufacturing receives a clean and complete NPI packet.

Product Readiness Scorecard:
Maintain an objective hardware readiness scorecard (modeled on MRL/PRR standards) providing clear product maturity visibility to leadership and manufacturing.

Design Baseline & Change Control:
Manage engineering baseline transitions into production. Support ECO/ECN workflows in PLM so Supply Chain and Manufacturing operate against clear, unambiguous release states.

Handoff Package Completeness:
Deliver complete hardware release packages to downstream teams, including CAD models, structural drawings, electrical single-lines, fluid schematics, multi-level BOMs, and factory acceptance test (FAT) criteria.

II. Enterprise Enablement & Subsystem Integration Cross-Functional Alignment:
Translate Spark hardware…