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
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 and OS integrity attestation (TPM-based identity, secure boot gating, remote attestation) that can quarantine compromised hardware, with no impact on customer training or inference workloads.
Reliability & Incident Operations: Define operational KPIs (uptime, PUE, MTTR, MTTD, MTBF), and establish runbooks, a tiered on-call model, and single-owner incident closure.
What they're looking for
- Procurement, CapEx & Budget Ownership: Partner with Procurement, Hardware, and Supply Chain on GPU and hardware sourcing, including pricing, supply commitments, and SLAs. Work with the Hardware leader on fleet capital and operating budgets, and report on fleet health, spend, and forecast to executive leadership.
- Team Leadership & Outcome Alignment: Build, develop, and retain a high-performing team of fleet engineers, DC infrastructure professionals, and platform/automation software engineers. Translate engineering targets into clear business outcomes and define SLOs with Product across compute, storage, networking, and inference.
- + years of experience in infrastructure, data center operations, or fleet: management, including 6+ years in a senior leadership role
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer: Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
