The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Future Architecture Definition: Lead the development of next-generation data center reference architectures that integrate across electrical, mechanical, thermal, and compute domains. Evaluate how emerging technologies reshape design assumptions and define the architectural path from pilot-scale validation through hyperscale deployment.
Technology Evaluation & Industry Scanning: Continuously scan the industry for emerging technologies, new vendor capabilities, and evolving standards that could impact data center architecture. Lead structured evaluations of candidate technologies through a full-system lens—assessing not just point performance, but how each technology integrates within the broader infrastructure and scales from prototype to production.
Systems Integration: Define and maintain the systems-level architecture that governs how Crusoe’s infrastructure layers interface and co-optimize. Ensure coherence across engineering disciplines and prevent design decisions in one domain from creating constraints elsewhere.
Pilot-to-Hyperscale Progression: Guide emerging technologies through the full lifecycle—from initial evaluation and bench-scale testing through pilot deployment, production validation, and hyperscale rollout. Define the technical criteria and milestones that determine readiness at each stage.
R&D Technical Leadership: Serve as the principal technical voice within the R&D organization on infrastructure architecture. Drive feasibility assessments, lead design reviews for pilot programs, and provide senior technical input on go/no-go decisions for emerging technologies.
Specifications & Standards: Author high-level system specifications, interface control documents, and design standards that inform future platform development. Translate R&D findings into actionable engineering guidance for production teams.
What they're looking for
- Engineering Team Partnership: Partner with engineering teams across the company as R&D’s primary technical interface—sharing insights from technology evaluations, translating domain-specific decisions into system-wide implications, and ensuring R&D outputs are aligned with the needs of the teams building and deploying infrastructure.
- External Partnerships: Build and maintain technical relationships with industry providers, emerging startups, OEMs, academic research groups, and national laboratories. Evaluate vendor and partner roadmaps, test claims, and identify opportunities for early access to next-generation technologies and collaborative development.
- Strategic Advisory: Partner with R&D and company leadership on technology choices that support Crusoe’s long-term growth strategy. Help shape the company’s perspective on where the industry is headed and how Crusoe should position itself.
- Experience: 15+ years of progressive engineering experience in data center: design, large-scale infrastructure, hyperscale computing environments, or industrial power systems. A career trajectory that demonstrates increasing scope across multiple engineering disciplines.
