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
Rapid Prototyping & Experimentation: Lead fast-cycle R&D efforts across MAPS domains — using AI-augmented workflows to prototype not just the recommended solution, but the full solution space. Compress the time from idea to working proof-of-concept so teams can make better decisions faster.
Product Viability & Scoping: Partner with engineering and product to evaluate the viability of new platform capabilities. Identify where net-new products overlap with or can extend existing platform services, reducing duplication and accelerating time-to-value.
Cross-Domain Technical Leadership: Float across all MAPS teams and domains as an embedded R&D resource. Provide senior technical guidance on architecture, implementation approach, and build-vs-extend tradeoffs without being constrained to a single product area.
Ambiguity Reduction: Own the early, fuzzy stages of product and feature work — defining scope, surfacing risk, and producing concrete artifacts (prototypes, technical specs, feasibility assessments) that make downstream engineering and product work faster and more precise.
Platform Pattern Recognition: Continuously identify commonalities across domains and surface opportunities to consolidate, reuse, or generalize platform capabilities — keeping the MAPS portfolio coherent as it grows.
Prototyping Depth: Proven ability to rapidly build high-fidelity prototypes across a range of technologies — comfortable moving fast, exploring multiple approaches in parallel, and knowing when good enough is the right call.
What they're looking for
- AI-Augmented Development: Demonstrated experience using AI tools to accelerate software development, research, and technical decision-making. You don't just use these tools — you push their limits.
- Cloud Platform Expertise: Strong understanding of managed cloud services, distributed systems, and platform engineering patterns. Able to recognize how new ideas map to or diverge from existing infrastructure.
- Product Instincts: Ability to engage early in ambiguous product spaces, ask the right questions, and translate fuzzy requirements into scoped, buildable increments.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Exceptional ability to synthesize and communicate complex technical tradeoffs to both engineering and product audiences. Comfortable presenting findings, recommendations, and prototypes to senior stakeholders.
