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$285,000 – $335,000
Listed on Crusoe’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Director of a newly formed team building the control and orchestration system for Crusoe's flexible compute platform, which dynamically manages data center power consumption to meet grid constraints while maintaining service levels. This role suits an experienced engineering leader with deep knowledge of distributed systems, safety-critical controls, and energy infrastructure who thrives building teams and systems from the ground up.
Our summary, not Crusoe’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- 12+ years software engineering experience
- 5+ years leading engineering teams
- Experience taking systems from 0→1 to production scale
- Deep experience with distributed control planes or fleet orchestration
- Safety-critical or physically-actuating systems background
- Data center power systems knowledge (utility interconnection, UPS, BESS, PDU distribution, power telemetry, GPU power)
- Hiring and building senior engineering teams
- Running operations for systems requiring high reliability
Nice to have
- GPU cluster operations or AI cloud infrastructure experience
- Energy sector experience (power generation, storage, utility software, or grid controls)
- GPU power/performance modeling or DVFS background
- Experience turning research prototypes into production systems
- Checkpoint/preemption for large training jobs or power-aware scheduling
- Energy market or grid program experience (demand response, curtailable-load tariffs, ISO/RTO signals)