Director, Engineering

Crusoe is on a mission 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.

We’re looking for a seasoned engineering leader to own and scale the GPU and data center infrastructure that powers our neocloud platform. This hands‑on leadership role sits at the intersection of software and hardware. You’ll lead the teams building validation platforms, lifecycle automation, and orchestration services that keep our fleet healthy, while also owning firmware qualification, hardware security, deployments, and data center operations across a fleet growing roughly 10x year over year.

Our fleet runs under a 99.5% monthly availability SLA, so your reliability and automation work is directly tied to revenue.

You’ll set the technical charter for fleet reliability and operational excellence, defining north‑star availability metrics and building automation that replaces today’s manual processes. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, Finance, and the executive team. The ideal candidate scales through systems rather than headcount, reasons from first principles, and leads from the front by digging into root causes. This is a full‑time, senior leadership position.

• Infrastructure Deployment & Fleet Management: Lead day‑to‑day fleet operations and greenfield deployments across co‑location and owned facilities, from rack landing to customer availability. Own core fleet‑health metrics and drive toward a 30‑day time‑to‑sellable target.

• Firmware Lifecycle Management: Build the pipeline to qualify and track every firmware release across 10+ SKUs and multiple OEMs/ODMs. Eliminate the qualification backlog (e.g., the ~66‑day NVIDIA firmware lag), hold partners accountable, and evaluate in‑house BMC development (OpenBMC).

• Validation Framework & Platform: Consolidate siloed hardware automation pipelines and validation scripts into a single platform built on a proper workflow engine. Own bare‑metal and multi‑node burn‑in/stress testing, define pass/fail criteria, deliver performance baselines (such as MFU) at cluster handover, and make stack‑validation results a required approval criterion for production changes.

• Data Center Infrastructure Engineering (DCIE): Own power, cooling, networking fabrics, and physical security. Prioritize RMAs ahead of warranty expiry, reduce manual node recoveries through lifecycle automation, and make that automation the source of truth for site deployments. Lead asset‑visibility initiatives such as fleet‑wide RFID and advanced DCIM tooling.

• Hardware Security & Attestation: Own the strategy for trusted, tamper‑evident hardware. Lead the design and rollout of firmware…