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About the role
You will be the first security engineer at Crux and the architect of how our platform protects customer workloads, from hardware root of trust to the tenant boundary. Reporting within our CTPO organization, you will define the security architecture of record for our TPU clusters, data centers, network, and control plane, and build the controls yourself. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 12+ years in security engineering, with deep focus on infrastructure, cloud, or platform security at scale
- Hands-on experience securing bare metal and data center infrastructure, including hardware root of trust, TPMs, secure and measured boot, BMC hardening, and out-of-band management networks
- A track record of designing multi-tenant isolation and identity and access architectures for a cloud or hyperscale platform, and shipping them to production
- Infrastructure security at a hyperscaler (Google, AWS, Microsoft, Meta) or a neocloud (CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe)
- Experience with confidential computing, remote attestation, or securing AI accelerators and model weights
- Experience building controls for FedRAMP High, IL5, or sovereign cloud programs
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 be the first security engineer at Crux and the architect of how our platform protects customer workloads, from hardware root of trust to the tenant boundary. Reporting within our CTPO organization, you will define the security architecture of record for our TPU clusters, data centers, network, and control plane, and build the controls yourself. Our customers include sovereign governments, frontier AI labs, and regulated enterprises running their most sensitive models on dedicated capacity, so security is part of the product, not a review at the...
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