Director of Engineering, Compute Cloud

• Serve as a team lead for cloud compute engineering at Crusoe Cloud, collaborating with leadership to define and implement the long-term road map and strategy for the team
• Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks
• Scale the team, including managing engineer onboarding, growing or hiring managers, and implementing team and org processes.
• Stay aware of the latest trends and techniques in cloud software, incorporating these insights to maintain Crusoe’s market-leading offerings
• Drive the hiring process to attract top talent, and implement strategies to retain and develop these professionals

• 7+ years of engineering management experience, 10+ years of experience working in software engineering
• In-depth understanding of Compute products (CPU, GPU, ASIC accelerators) and how customers consume them
• Understanding of key hypervisors and virtualization technologies (eg KVM, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V) and how they enable cloud computing.
• Familiarity with AI/ML workloads and how they drive compute requirements for the cloud data center.
• Proven experience in building and maintaining scalable and highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems and application architectures
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Proven track record of operating production infrastructure to strict SLOs and SLAs, leveraging fleet-wide observability and monitoring to drive reliability, optimization, and capacity planning
• Deep expertise in Linux environments, configuration management, and modern deployment automation to ensure safe, scalable rollouts across large-scale compute fleets
• Demonstrated leadership in ambiguous, fast-moving environments,bringing structure, clarity, and cross-functional alignment during periods of rapid organizational growth
• Active open-source or upstream contributions to cloud infrastructure, containerization, or virtualization technologies (e.g., KVM, QEMU, containerd, Kubernetes)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
• Volunteer time off
• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
• Daily meals allowance
• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $285,000 - 335,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

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.