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Staff Production Engineer, Compute

Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · full time · Staff

$209,000 – $253,000

Listed on Crusoe’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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.

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What they ask for

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

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