Production Engineer, Compute

Energy Vault; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Vault is seeking a Compute-focused Site Reliability Engineer to enhance our sustainable cloud infrastructure. This role involves optimizing performance for AI workloads, maintaining virtualization stacks, and collaborating on system efficiencies. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in Linux internals and virtualization technologies, contributing to our mission of advancing AI infrastructure with clean energy.

Benefits

Hybrid work schedule

Industry competitive pay

Restricted Stock Units

Health insurance options

Paid Parental Leave

Paid life insurance

401(k) with a 100% match

Generous paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Company paid commuter benefit

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Compute SRE or Linux system engineering roles.
• Strong proficiency with virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU, VMware).
• Familiarity with SmartNICs/DPUs and kernel bypass techniques.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation and observability tools for compute infrastructure.
• Support and scale the company's virtualization stack.
• Participate in root cause analysis for performance issues.

Skills

Linux kernel internals

Virtualization architectures

System-level debugging

Infrastructure as Code tooling

Compute scheduling

High-throughput networking

Programming language skills (Go, C, Rust)

Job description

Crusoe is building the World’s Favorite AI-first Cloud infrastructure company. We’re pioneering vertically integrated, purpose-built AI infrastructure solutions trusted by Fortune 500 companies to power their most advanced AI applications. Crusoe is redefining AI cloud infrastructure, with a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. Our AI platform is recognized as the "gold standard" for reliability and performance. Our data centers are optimized for AI workloads and are powered by clean, renewable energy.

Be part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About This Role:

At Crusoe, we are building the most sustainable, AI-first cloud infrastructure, and our Compute-focused Site Reliability Engineers are the backbone of that mission. This role is centered on supporting virtualization, hypervisor, and kernel-level performance for Crusoe’s compute infrastructure. You’ll play a vital role in deploying and optimizing bare-metal and virtualized compute platforms, ensuring performance, security, and scale for modern AI and HPC workloads.

What You'll Be Working On:

In this role, you will develop automation and observability tools to monitor Crusoe’s compute infrastructure, spanning from the kernel to orchestration layers. You will support and scale the company’s virtualization stack, including technologies such as KVM, QEMU, and other hypervisors. Collaborating with Linux kernel and hardware teams, you’ll help identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, driver issues, and optimize hardware offloads. A key focus will be on optimizing performance for AI and HPC workloads across CPU, GPU, and DPU/NIC resources. You will participate in root cause analysis for kernel crashes, hardware-software integration problems, and performance regressions, while also integrating hypervisor-level enhancements to improve guest VM reliability and workload isolation. The role involves tuning kernel subsystems such as the process scheduler, NUMA configuration, memory management, and interrupt handling. Additionally, you will work closely with platform teams to implement and validate support for emerging compute hardware, including SmartNICs, BlueField devices, and TPUs

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• 5+ years of professional experience in Compute SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure roles.

• Strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals, with exposure to scheduler, memory allocation, and driver subsystems.

• Experience with virtualization architectures and technologies such as KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware.

• Familiarity with SmartNICs/DPUs (e.g., NVIDIA CX6/7, BlueField-3) and kernel bypass techniques.

• Expert-level skills in at least one programming language: Go, C or Rust.

• Experience with system-level debugging, including kdump, kexec, and kernel panic analysis.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tooling and CI/CD practices for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure.

• Strong understanding of compute scheduling, resource management, and high-throughput networking.

Benefits:

• Hybrid work schedule

• Industry competitive pay

• Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company

• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents

• Employer contributions to HSA accounts

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Teladoc

• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary

• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule

• Cell phone reimbursement

• Tuition reimbursement

• Subscription to the Calm app

• MetLife Legal

• Company paid commuter benefit; $50 per pay period

Compensation Range:

Compensation will be paid in the range of $183,000 - $210,000 per year + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, 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.