Senior AI Networking & SDN Engineer

crusoe; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Parental Leave

Life insurance

401(k) with match

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter benefit

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking a Production Engineer to sustain and scale its AI‑optimized cloud networking stack. You will design automation for the SDN fabric that underpins Crusoe Cloud’s edge, backbone, and data center connectivity, enabling large‑scale AI compute clusters.

You will work with network engineers on routing, service meshes, and CNI plugins, ensuring low latency, high availability, and fault tolerance across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, ECE, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in PE, systems, or networking engineering.
• Experience automating network provisioning, configuration, and remediation.
• Hands-on experience with SDN platforms and protocols (Open vSwitch, ONOS, Tungsten Fabric, Calico, Cilium, EVPN/VXLAN).
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or C; familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).

Responsibilities

• Build automation and self-healing tools for Crusoe Cloud SDN infrastructure.
• Improve reliability: routing convergence, traffic engineering, policy enforcement, fault isolation.
• Collaborate with network engineers to deploy high-performance networking services for AI workloads.
• Investigate incidents using telemetry, logs, and packet analysis; assist kernel and hardware teams.
• Contribute to scalable SDN backends for AI-first cloud environments.

Skills

Python

Go

C

Linux networking

BGP

OSPF

EVPN/VXLAN

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

Open vSwitch

ONOS

Calico

Cilium

Kubernetes

Job description

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking a Production Engineer to sustain and scale its AI‑optimized cloud networking stack. You will design automation for the SDN fabric that underpins Crusoe Cloud’s edge, backbone, and data center connectivity, enabling large‑scale AI compute clusters.

You will work with network engineers on routing, service meshes, and CNI plugins, ensuring low latency, high availability, and fault tolerance across distributed systems.