Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Model Lifecycle

AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 237,600 - 318,240; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Restricted Stock Units

Paid time off & holidays

Comprehensive health insurance

401(k) Retirement plan

Professional development support

Mental health & wellness support

Job summary

Crusoe is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the AI Model Lifecycle team in San Francisco, CA. The candidate will manage fine-tuning systems and training pipelines for large language models, contributing to the development of AI solutions.

The ideal candidate should have over 8 years of experience in AI, with hands-on skills in training and fine-tuning machine learning models. This role offers competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience in AI.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and RFT techniques.
• Proactive and collaborative work style.

Responsibilities

• Manage fine-tuning systems and pipelines for LLMs.
• Implement end-to-end training for Machine Learning models.
• Oversee dataset and experiment management.

Skills

Leading AI projects

Training and fine-tuning LLMs

Reinforcement Learning

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Golang

Python

PyTorch

Job description

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.

About This Role:

The Senior Staff Software Engineer for the AI Model Lifecycle team will play a crucial role in building a comprehensive managed platform for the entire application development lifecycle, with a specific focus on leveraging Machine Learning models, including Large Language Models (LLMs).

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Manage fine‑tuning systems for large foundation models (SFT, PEFT, LoRA, adapters), including multi‑node orchestration, checkpointing, failure recovery, and cost‑efficient scaling.

• Implement and maintain end‑to‑end training pipelines for Large Language Models.

• RFT and Reinforcement learning to the fine tuning and training sections.

• Distillation and reinforcement learning pipelines (e.g., preference optimization, policy optimization, reward modeling).

• Dataset, model, and experiment management: versioning, lineage, evaluation, and reproducible fine‑tuning at scale.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 8+ years of industry experience leading and driving impactful projects in the AI Space.

• Experience in Generative AI (Large Language Models, Multimodal).

• Hands‑on experience training, fine‑tuning, and aligning LLMs using Reinforcement Learning and Reinforcement Fine‑Tuning (RFT) techniques.

• Proactive and collaborative approach with the ability to work autonomously.

• Passion for building cutting‑edge AI products and solving challenging technical problems.

Bonus Points:

• Proficiency in Golang or Python for large‑scale, production‑level services and PyTorch.

• Contributions to open‑source AI projects such as vLLM or similar frameworks.

• Performance optimizations on GPU systems and inference frameworks.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation

• Restricted Stock Units

• Paid time off & paid holidays

• 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

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $237,600 - $318,240 + 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.