Senior Staff Applications Engineer - SparkPosted today$190K–$215K

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

  • Qualification Framework: Build and maintain the standardized screening criteria, scoring model, decision thresholds, and report format that define what makes a site or opportunity viable for Spark deployments. Keep it current as the product roadmap evolves, and keep a record of past calls and their rationale.

  • Team Enablement: Equip EDG, business development, and partner teams to apply the framework themselves on standard opportunities. Train, document, and iterate so routine qualification does not depend on a single point of failure, you.

  • Escalated Technical Judgment: Serve as the Spark team's point of contact for opportunities the framework cannot resolve, including undefined sites, non-standard configurations, and contested calls. Deliver a clear fit, conditional fit, or no-fit verdict with the engineering rationale behind it.

  • Speed Discipline: Turn around escalated feasibility assessments in days, not weeks. Frame the problem tightly enough that deeper analysis, when required, lands on the respective engineering discipline ready to be worked.

  • Deviation & Exception Management: Identify where an opportunity requires deviation from the standard Spark configuration, quantify the engineering cost and schedule impact, and route it to the responsible engineering discipline for disposition.

  • New Application Assessment: Evaluate technical fit for non-standard applications such as edge deployments, distributed energy assets, co-located industrial sites, and third-party colocation and shell-rent arrangements, and define what the product would need to change to serve them.

What they're looking for

  • Roadmap Feedback Loop: Feed recurring field constraints back to Spark design engineering and R&D as prioritized product requirements. You are the closed loop between what the market presents and what the product can absorb.
  • EDG Partnership: Serve as Spark's dedicated technical counterpart to the Energy Development Group across the full site pipeline, from initial screen through definitive agreement.
  • Spark Fit Assessment: Evaluate candidate sites and opportunities against Spark module requirements, covering power, thermal, civil, and physical interface, and define what the site must deliver at the module boundary.
  • Field Validation: Conduct site walks alongside EDG, developers, and utility counterparties, converting observations into Spark product requirements and a maintained risk register.