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
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.
What they're looking for
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Translate Spark hardware roadmaps into actionable handoff schedules for Supply Chain, Quality, Manufacturing, and Construction well ahead of production builds.
- Validation Campaigns: Plan and orchestrate first-of-a-kind (FOAK) prototype builds. Participate on the shop floor during validation runs to feed design-for-manufacturability (DFM) insights back to engineering.
- Manufacturing Enablement: Partner directly with Manufacturing, ensuring their engineering team has the documentation, assembly instructions, tooling access, and test specs for a smooth line setup.
- Supply Chain Synchronization: Partner with Supply Chain early to identify long-lead electrical and thermal components, ensuring supplier vetting before design freeze.
