# Senior Production Engineer, Compute

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/962a47b0-1cf9-4247-bee5-097b4309c58a

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

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA
- Salary: 170000 – 205000 USD per year

## Summary

Crusoe is seeking a production engineer to optimize their AI infrastructure's compute layer, working on virtualization, kernel performance, and bare-metal systems at scale. This role suits someone with deep Linux systems expertise who wants to solve infrastructure challenges in a high-growth company focused on sustainable AI infrastructure.

_Our summary, not Crusoe's wording._

## Skills named

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

## Required

- 5+ years in Compute SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals including scheduler and memory allocation
- Experience with virtualization architectures like KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware
- Expert-level proficiency in Go, C, or Rust
- Experience with system-level debugging including kdump and kexec
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tooling and CI/CD for infrastructure

## 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 and kernel bypass techniques
- Understanding of compute scheduling and high-throughput networking

Apply on Crusoe's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/9608d887-5ddb-4a2f-9364-495254165884/application