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
Team Building & People Leadership: Recruit, hire, and onboard R&D team members across technology evaluation, program management, and related functions. Own the people management lifecycle: conduct regular 1:1s, drive career development conversations, manage performance, and build an inclusive, high-performing team culture.
Organizational Scaling: Partner with R&D leadership to translate the organizational growth plan into a phased hiring roadmap. Define role profiles, interview processes, and onboarding programs that attract and retain top talent in a competitive market.
Program Management (Hybrid): During the team’s early growth phase, directly manage R&D programs—including technology evaluations, external partner engagements, feasibility pilots, and cross-functional projects that advance technologies from concept through pilot validation toward hyperscale deployment. As the team grows, transition program execution to dedicated TPMs while retaining oversight and mentorship.
Operational Excellence: Establish and continuously improve R&D operational processes: intake workflows, project tracking, resource allocation, reporting cadences, and governance structures. Ensure the team operates with transparency, discipline, and speed.
Engineering Team Coordination: Support the interface between R&D and engineering teams across the company. Help facilitate planning sessions, regular touchpoints, and ad hoc engagements that ensure R&D is delivering value to the people building and deploying Crusoe’s infrastructure.
Leadership Partnership: Serve as the primary operational partner to the head of R&D, enabling strategic focus by owning day-to-day team management and program execution. Provide input on organizational design, resource prioritization, and process improvements.
What they're looking for
- External Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement: Support relationship management with technology vendors, emerging startups, and research partners. Help coordinate pilot programs and external engagements that bring new technologies into Crusoe’s evaluation pipeline.
- People Management: 5+ years of direct people management experience, including hiring, performance management, and career development of technical individual contributors. Experience building or significantly scaling a team is strongly preferred.
- Program Management: 5+ years of technical program or project management experience in infrastructure, manufacturing, data center, or related engineering environments.
- Technical Fluency: Sufficient technical background to engage credibly with engineers across data center infrastructure, power systems, cooling, and compute domains. You don’t need to be the technical expert—but you need to understand the landscape well enough to manage and mentor technical ICs effectively.
