Staff Compute Systems Engineer, AI Infrastructure

Crusoe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

PTO & holidays

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Professional development

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking a Senior Compute SRE to design and optimize our AI-focused compute platforms. You will develop automation, observability, and virtualization tooling to ensure peak performance, security, and scalability for AI and HPC workloads.

The role emphasizes kernel-level tuning, driver debugging, and collaboration with hardware and platform teams to support cutting-edge compute hardware, including SmartNICs and TPUs. Join a fast-moving, energy-first AI infra team.

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Develop automation and observability tools to monitor Crusoe’s compute infrastructure.
• Support and scale the company’s virtualization stack (KVM, QEMU, and other hypervisors).
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, driver issues, and optimize hardware offloads.
• Tune kernel subsystems such as the process scheduler, NUMA configuration, memory management, and interrupt handling.
• Collaborate with platform teams to implement and validate support for emerging compute hardware, including SmartNICs, BlueField devices, and TPUs.

Skills

Linux kernel internals

Virtualization architectures

Programming: Go

Programming: C

Programming: Rust

System debugging

IaC & CI/CD

Compute scheduling

Tools

KVM

Xen

QEMU

VMware

Job description

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking a Senior Compute SRE to design and optimize our AI-focused compute platforms. You will develop automation, observability, and virtualization tooling to ensure peak performance, security, and scalability for AI and HPC workloads.

The role emphasizes kernel-level tuning, driver debugging, and collaboration with hardware and platform teams to support cutting-edge compute hardware, including SmartNICs and TPUs. Join a fast-moving, energy-first AI infra team.