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Principal Engineer, Conductor Platform (CAPE)

Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · full time · Principal

$285,000 – $335,000

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What this role is

Principal-level systems architect role building Conductor, an operating system for AI datacenters that manages GPU fleets at scale. This suits deeply experienced infrastructure engineers who have architected distributed control planes and want to lead a 0→1 platform spanning 100,000+ GPUs across global sites.

Our summary, not Crusoe’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 10+ years building infrastructure systems at scale
  • Deep distributed systems design experience including state reconciliation and workflow engines
  • Track record architecting multi-service platforms with defined APIs and data models
  • Hands-on datacenter and GPU/HPC infrastructure knowledge including bare-metal provisioning and firmware management
  • Experience designing large-scale observability platforms correlating compute, network, and storage signals
  • Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams and 0→1 environments
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in systems languages like Go, Rust, or C++

Nice to have

  • Graph data models for infrastructure topology
  • Security attestation or SBOM tooling experience

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