# Staff Production Engineer, Compute

Hiring organization: [Crusoe](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crusoe)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/05ae7a28-d254-4c1c-a433-82d3a96809c6

Listed on Crusoe's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 209000 – 253000 USD per year

## Summary

Crusoe is seeking a Staff Production Engineer to build and optimize the virtualization and kernel infrastructure supporting their AI compute platforms. This role suits experienced Linux systems engineers who want to work on large-scale infrastructure challenges at the intersection of hardware, kernel optimization, and cloud computing.

_Our summary, not Crusoe's wording._

## Skills named

CI/CD, Go, Infrastructure as Code, Linux Kernel, Rust, Virtualization

## Required

- 8+ years in Compute SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure
- Linux kernel internals knowledge including scheduler, memory allocation, and driver subsystems
- Experience with virtualization technologies such as KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware
- Expert-level proficiency in Go, C, or Rust
- System-level debugging experience with kdump, kexec, and kernel panic analysis
- Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD proficiency for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure
- Understanding of compute scheduling, resource management, and high-throughput networking

## Nice to have

- Experience porting or maintaining custom Linux distributions or kernels
- Exposure to AI model infrastructure and GPU cluster orchestration
- Contributions to Linux kernel, KVM, or other low-level infrastructure projects
- Familiarity with SmartNICs/DPUs like NVIDIA CX6/7 or BlueField-3

Apply on Crusoe's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/445fb076-60e5-4ae4-91c9-b8f0dc84ca24/application