Staff Integrated Capacity Planner

Crusoe Energy Systems; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

PTO (time off)

401(k) match

Mental wellness

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking a senior leader to own the end-to-end capacity planning and efficiency program. You will manage the integrated planning system spanning GPU, compute, storage, network, and data-center energy, aligning demand with supply while balancing capital and operating budgets.

You will drive long-range planning, IBP/S&OP cycles, and scenario modeling, partnering with Finance to forecast capex/opex and ensuring execution against a defensible plan across multiple functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field.
• 8+ years in infrastructure capacity planning, IBP/S&OP, or related.
• Experience building or defining product requirements for capacity modeling software.
• Experience standing up an S&OP or IBP function from scratch.
• Strong modeling and Excel/Sheets skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated planning system across GPU, compute, storage, network, and power.
• Run the end-to-end IBP/S&OP cycle across multiple orgs.
• Maintain unconstrained demand and the constrained committed plan.
• Translate the plan into supplier commitments, capex/opex forecasts.
• Collaborate with Finance to forecast demand capex/opex and explain variances.

Skills

SQL

Python

Excel

IBP/S&OP

Capacity planning

Financial forecasting

Supply chain

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Excel

SQL

Python

Job description

• At Crusoe, the Capacity Planning & Efficiency team operates at the critical intersection of all Crusoe products, services, and underlying physical infrastructure
• This role owns the integrated planning system itself - the connective tissue that turns long-range strategy into a committed, buildable, fundable plan
• You will run the end-to-end planning rhythm across every resource class: GPU and accelerated AI fabrics, compute, storage (File, Object, and Block), network, and the data center power and space that gates all of it
• You will own long-range planning, the integrated business planning cycle, allocation and constraints planning, the operating calendar, and the supply chain and financial commitments that flow out of them
• This is a single pane of glass role
• Where domain planners go deep on one resource, you go wide across all of them and arbitrate - reconciling demand signals against supply commitments, hardware lead times, site readiness, and capital and operating budgets into one defensible plan the company runs on
• You will not own any single resource domain; you own the system that reconciles them all, and the calls that fall out of it when supply is short
• You will partner directly with Finance to translate the capacity plan into demand capex and opex forecasts, and you will be the person leadership turns to when a constraint, a slip, or a demand surprise forces a re-plan
• This role is uniquely positioned to maximize fleet utilization with company-wide impact, directly supporting Crusoe’s mission to align the future of computing with environmental sustainability
• Long-Range Capacity Planning: Own the multi-year outlook across GPU, compute, storage, network, and the power and site energization schedules that gate all of it, and build the scenario models - demand cases, technology transitions, refresh and decommission waves - that inform where Crusoe commits capital and builds next
• Integrated Business Planning: Run the IBP/S&OP cycle end to end - demand review, supply review, reconciliation, and the executive decision forum. Maintain both the unconstrained demand signal and the constrained committed plan; the gap between them is how Crusoe sizes what it is leaving on the table
• Constraints & Bottleneck Planning: Maintain a live model of what is actually binding - silicon allocation, supplier lead times, power energization, rack and network availability, deployment labor - quantify the impact of each, and drive every mitigation to a decision
• Allocation & Arbitration: Own the framework that decides which demand gets which capacity when supply is short - prioritization rules, trade-off analysis, and a clean escalation path when the call has to go to leadership
• Plan of Record & Operating Calendar: Design and run the planning calendar that synchronizes Cloud Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Product, and Finance. Govern the plan of record - commitment time fences, what is frozen versus still movable, and what triggers a re-plan
• Demand & Bookings Translation: Convert contracted commitments, backlog, ramp schedules, and on-demand growth into resource-level forecasts, including the attach ratios that link GPU capacity to storage, network, and compute. Manage forecast accuracy and bias as owned metrics
• Supply Chain Integration: Translate the plan into supplier commitments, purchase timing, and buffer strategy, navigating global lead times and allocation constraints with Supply Chain and Server Hardware Engineering
• Financial Integration: Interface directly with Finance and Product to drive demand capex and opex forecasts off the capacity plan, own the linkage to unit economics, depreciation schedules, and utilization targets, and explain the variances when plan and actuals diverge

Benefits

• Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
• Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
• 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
• Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life’s challenges

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Mathematics, Data Science, or an equivalent technical field

Exceptional Influence & Communication

Structured narrative delivery, crisp documentation, and executive-grade presentations that turn a complex plan into a decision leadership can make in the room. You will run a planning cycle spanning five organizations without managing any of them, and elevate cleanly when alignment is not reachable

Hyper-Growth Experience

Planning inside high-growth public cloud environments or massively distributed systems, where the plan changes and the rhythm still has to hold

Proven Integrated Planning Expertise

8+ years in infrastructure capacity planning, IBP/S&OP, supply and demand planning, systems engineering, or technical program management, including end-to-end ownership of a recurring planning cycle. Strong candidates come from either deep infrastructure or formal planning backgrounds - we expect to teach the other half

Modeling Craft

Expert-level Excel or Google Sheets. You build models other people can inherit, audit, and run without you - clear structure, documented assumptions, versioned, and still trustworthy several quarters after they were built

Supply Chain Fluency

Practical experience with lead times, supplier allocation, buffer strategy, and converting a plan into committed purchase orders and delivered hardware

Financial Acumen

Comfort operating in capex and opex terms - building demand-driven capital forecasts and defending the numbers in front of Finance and leadership

Breadth Across Resource Classes

Technical fluency across compute, storage (File, Object, and Block), network, and accelerated computing, plus the power, space, and cooling constraints that govern deployment. Deep expertise in one domain is not required; holding your own with the people who have it is

Hands-on quantitative modeling skill

- SQL, Python, or optimization and simulation methods applied to constrained allocation problems

Experience building or defining foundational product requirements for custom in-house planning, provisioning, or capacity modeling software

Experience standing up an S&OP or integrated business planning function from scratch, including the cadence, data model, and decision forums