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About the role
You will set the technical direction for the hardest problems at Crux: the ones that sit between layers and belong to no single team. Crux is designing power, facilities, TPU clusters, networking, and software together, which creates problems that have never been solved at this scale or with this degree of integration. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 15+ years designing and building large-scale networked or distributed systems, with work that has changed how the industry builds infrastructure
- A record of taking ideas from research or first principles into production, as a founder, startup CTO, or technical lead at a hyperscaler, research lab, or infrastructure company
- Deep expertise in at least one of networking, distributed systems, operating systems, or systems for AI, and fluency across the others
- A PhD in computer science or a related field, with publications at venues such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, OSDI, or SOSP
- Recognition such as ACM or IEEE Fellow, or test-of-time and best paper awards
- Experience founding or serving as CTO of an infrastructure startup, including through acquisition
More about this role
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
You will set the technical direction for the hardest problems at Crux: the ones that sit between layers and belong to no single team. Crux is designing power, facilities, TPU clusters, networking, and software together, which creates problems that have never been solved at this scale or with this degree of integration. Reporting to our CTO, you will define the architecture of record for those cross-cutting systems, invent where the known answers fall short, and take ideas from first principles to production alongside the Compute, Networking, and Security...
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