Principal PM, AI Storage Infrastructure & Scale

Crusoe Energy Systems; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing benefits

Paid time off

401(k) match

Mental wellness

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking a Principal Product Manager for the AI Infrastructure storage foundation. You will steer long-term architecture and technology strategy, from hardware/vendor decisions to fleet-wide deployment, partnering with infrastructure engineers and architects to scale storage for AI workloads.

The role demands 8+ years in technical product management or product-minded infra engineering, with deep cloud storage and hyperscale storage knowledge, plus strong vendor management

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical product management experience, or product-minded infra engineering experience.
• Experience managing long-term vendor strategy and vetting in-house software investments for storage hardware/software.
• Strong grasp of infrastructure economics at scale: cost per usable TB and capacity efficiency.
• Analytical mindset with ability to use data to inform multi-year infra decisions.
• Exceptional communication skills to translate tradeoffs for engineering leadership and executives.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure workloads in the cloud.
• Direct experience with high-performance storage networking (RDMA, GPUDirect Storage).
• Experience with a major cloud provider and storage services.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term storage architecture and hierarchy for Crusoe’s AI infrastructure.
• Manage vendor relationships and strategy for storage hardware/software investments.
• Define the 2–4 year vision/roadmap across block, file, object, and archival tiers.
• Set platform targets for performance, durability, and cost per usable TB.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Software, and Architecture teams.
• Scout industry for emerging storage technologies and vendors.

Skills

Storage architecture

Vendor management

Infrastructure economics

Data-driven decision making

Leadership communication

AI/ML infrastructure

Cloud storage

RDMA/GPUDirect Storage

Mentoring product managers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer science

Tools

RDMA

GPUDirect Storage

AWS/Azure/GCP storage services

Job description

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking a Principal Product Manager for the AI Infrastructure storage foundation. You will steer long-term architecture and technology strategy, from hardware/vendor decisions to fleet-wide deployment, partnering with infrastructure engineers and architects to scale storage for AI workloads.

The role demands 8+ years in technical product management or product-minded infra engineering, with deep cloud storage and hyperscale storage knowledge, plus strong vendor management