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About the role
You will own the math that keeps Crux from buying chips it has nowhere to put. Crux's compute pipeline runs on TPU capacity supplied through our partnership with Google — chip cost dramatically outweighs data center power cost, so idle chip inventory with no site to plug into is the failure mode this role exists to prevent.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in technical program management, capacity planning, or supply/demand planning for cloud, hardware, or other capital-intensive infrastructure
- Direct experience evaluating a multi-project portfolio as a system — weighing, sequencing, and recommending across dozens of live opportunities, not analyzing deals one at a time
- Quantitative fluency with capacity, cost, and schedule modeling at a level you can defend the numbers yourself, not hand off to an analyst
- Experience with GPU or TPU capacity planning specifically — cluster deployments, chip allocation, or accelerated-compute fleet management
- Familiarity with data center development timelines, power procurement, and site readiness milestones
- Background in operations research, portfolio optimization, or capital allocation modeling
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 own the math that keeps Crux from buying chips it has nowhere to put. Crux's compute pipeline runs on TPU capacity supplied through our partnership with Google — chip cost dramatically outweighs data center power cost, so idle chip inventory with no site to plug into is the failure mode this role exists to prevent. You will evaluate Crux's full portfolio of 40-plus live project possibilities as a single system, not deal by deal, and produce the recommendation that goes to the Chief Program Manager's organization on which projects to pursue,...
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