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
Own the company-wide architecture strategy connecting all four domains,: ensuring edge PoPs, backbone transport, data center fabrics, and SDN overlays are designed as one coherent system rather than in silos.
Arbitrate high-stakes tradeoffs between domains, e.g., backbone capacity vs.: data center fabric bandwidth vs. SDN overlay overhead, and drive decisions with company-wide impact, optimized for AI/HPC workloads.
Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, and design review: processes across the network organization; own final sign-off on major architecture decisions and ensure delivery to production.
Set north star for PoP design, peering, IX participation, and edge: compute/caching placement as the company expands into new markets.
Set game plan for long-haul/core network design, BGP, MPLS/segment routing,: optical transport, and multi-region/multi-campus redundancy and failover posture.
Set overarching strategy for spine-leaf fabric design, RDMA: (RoCEv2/InfiniBand) interconnects, and power/cooling-aware rack design for high-density GPU clusters at hyperscale (500+ switch environments).
What they're looking for
- Set strategic direction for SDN control plane architecture (overlay/underlay: programmability), Kubernetes networking (CNI selection, network policy, multi-cluster service mesh), and customer-facing cloud constructs (VPCs, load balancers, security groups).
- Champion intent-based networking, declarative configuration (GitOps), and: network source-of-truth practices across the organization; own executive-level remediation for major cross-domain outages.
- Partner with Product, Hardware, and Infrastructure (including VP/C-level: stakeholders) to align multi-year roadmaps with company priorities and represent network architecture in company-wide planning.
- Align software and operations teams on execution while incorporating their: input to strengthen design and architecture.
