# Senior Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer at crusoe

- Company: crusoe
- What the company does: Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach. Deploy AI workloads at scale with reliable performance and 24/7 support. Backed by Founders Fund, Felicis and Air Street.
- Company website: https://www.crusoe.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA - US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/crusoe/cdca4752-d6b5-4df4-b121-57826b41d4b5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/crusoe-senior-staff-applied-ai-inference-engineer/

## About the role

You will spend your time making large language models run faster, cheaper, and more reliably in production. That means owning the inference stack end to end: profiling where time and cost go, bringing modern optimization techniques into real deployments, and getting deep into the serving code when the defaults are not good enough. This is core systems and performance work on some of the most demanding models in use today.

Tags: Cloud Engineering