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Senior Staff Data Center Operations Engineer, GPU Hardware Architecture

crusoe · San Francisco, CA - US · On-site

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About crusoe

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.

About the role

Engineering Education & Design Support: Provide deep-dive technical guidance to the Data Center Engineering team on upcoming silicon (e.g., NVIDIA Blackwell/Rubin, AMD MI350/400). Ensure future facility designs for power, cooling, and rack-spacing are ready for 2000W+ per-chip densities.

What they're looking for

  • Silicon & Fabric Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of NVIDIA (Hopper/Blackwell/Rubin) and AMD (Instinct) architectures. Mastery of the physical and logical layers of NVLink, NVSwitch, and InfiniBand
  • Infrastructure Bridge-Building: Ability to translate "Silicon Data Sheets" into "Mechanical Engineering Requirements." You can explain how a GPU's specific heat-load profile affects CDU sizing and secondary loop design
  • Data-Driven Diagnostics: Proficient in Python, Go, or Bash to build telemetry and health-check tools (utilizing DCGM and ROCm ). Experience using large datasets or basic ML frameworks to build "Smart Monitoring" that filters critical health signals from noise
  • Operational Reliability Analysis: Experience using failure telemetry to inform site-level sparing requirements and field-service workflows
  • Thermal Management: Deep understanding of the operational realities of Direct-to-Chip (D2C) cooling, including fluid dynamics, pressure-drop curves, and the lifecycle of dripless couplings
  • 10+ years in Hardware Engineering, Systems Architecture, or Data Center Infrastructure
More about this role

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.

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