CrusoeSenior Staff Engineer, Platform R&D
2w ago
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Senior Staff Engineer role at Crusoe focusing on platform R&D and accelerating AI infrastructure development.
Responsibilities
- We are seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer, Platform R&D to embed senior research and development capacity directly into Crusoe's Managed Platform Services (MAPS) team. In this role, you will accelerate delivery across all MAPS domains through rapid experimentation, AI-augmented prototyping, and hands-on product scoping — reducing ambiguity early and ensuring engineering and product are always building toward the right incremental milestones. You will float across teams and domains, operating as a force multiplier with no single product ownership.
Conditions
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks & programs specific to location
- Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $245,000 -$295,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
- Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
Other
- Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence . As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
- We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
- We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
- If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
- Rapid Prototyping & Experimentation: Lead fast-cycle R&D efforts across MAPS domains — using AI-augmented workflows to prototype not just the recommended solution, but the full solution space. Compress the time from idea to working proof-of-concept so teams can make better decisions faster.
- Product Viability & Scoping: Partner with engineering and product to evaluate the viability of new platform capabilities. Identify where net-new products overlap with or can extend existing platform services, reducing duplication and accelerating time-to-value.
- Cross-Domain Technical Leadership: Float across all MAPS teams and domains as an embedded R&D resource. Provide senior technical guidance on architecture, implementation approach, and build-vs-extend tradeoffs without being constrained to a single product area.
- Ambiguity Reduction: Own the early, fuzzy stages of product and feature work — defining scope, surfacing risk, and producing concrete artifacts (prototypes, technical specs, feasibility assessments) that make downstream engineering and product work faster and more precise.
- Platform Pattern Recognition: Continuously identify commonalities across domains and surface opportunities to consolidate, reuse, or generalize platform capabilities — keeping the MAPS portfolio coherent as it grows.
- Prototyping Depth: Proven ability to rapidly build high-fidelity prototypes across a range of technologies — comfortable moving fast, exploring multiple approaches in parallel, and knowing when good enough is the right call.
- AI-Augmented Development: Demonstrated experience using AI tools to accelerate software development, research, and technical decision-making. You don't just use these tools — you push their limits.
- Cloud Platform Expertise: Strong understanding of managed cloud services, distributed systems, and platform engineering patterns. Able to recognize how new ideas map to or diverge from existing infrastructure.
- Product Instincts: Ability to engage early in ambiguous product spaces, ask the right questions, and translate fuzzy requirements into scoped, buildable increments.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Exceptional ability to synthesize and communicate complex technical tradeoffs to both engineering and product audiences. Comfortable presenting findings, recommendations, and prototypes to senior stakeholders.
- Collaborative Influence: Able to operate without formal authority — earning trust across teams through technical credibility, clear thinking, and consistent delivery.
- Professional Experience: 10+ years of software development experience, including significant time in senior individual contributor or staff-level roles. Experience with modern compiled or systems languages (Go, Rust, Java, C++) and cloud-native infrastructure.