# Technical Program Manager, Pipeline Evaluation at Crux

- Company: Crux
- What the company does: Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.cruxdata.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/crux/5148efd5-2662-43cd-a405-2c12882c3946
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/crux-technical-program-manager-pipeline-evaluation/

## 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

Tags: Development