Senior AI Inference Engineering Lead

Crusoe Energy Systems; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Mental wellness resources

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team focused on making large language models run faster, cheaper, and more reliably in production. You will stay hands-on with the inference stack, profiling performance and optimizing CUDA kernels and framework integrations.

Between leading people and delivering production-ready ML systems, you will work with customer teams to tailor deployments, define roadmaps, and ship well-tested results

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams of engineers in high-performance or ML-focused environments.
• Strong background in software engineering fundamentals and ML infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead team delivery end to end from experiments to production optimizations.
• Collaborate with customers to tailor deployments and ensure measurable performance gains.
• Design and optimize serving architectures and profiling strategies.
• Mentor engineers and shape technical roadmaps.

Skills

Problem-solving

Leadership

Communication

Hands-on coding

Customer-facing

ML inference

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/Ph.D. in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Python

C++

CUDA

Docker

Kubernetes

vLLM / SGLang

Job description

Crusoe Energy Systems in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team focused on making large language models run faster, cheaper, and more reliably in production. You will stay hands-on with the inference stack, profiling performance and optimizing CUDA kernels and framework integrations.

Between leading people and delivering production-ready ML systems, you will work with customer teams to tailor deployments, define roadmaps, and ship well-tested results