Staff Production Engineer, Compute

About the role

At Crusoe Energy Systems, we are building the most sustainable, AI-first cloud infrastructure, and our Compute-focused Production Engineers are the backbone of that mission. This role is centered on supporting virtualization, hypervisor, and kernel-level performance for Crusoe’s compute infrastructure. You’ll play a vital role in deploying and optimizing bare-metal and virtualized compute platforms, ensuring performance, security, and scale for modern AI and HPC workloads.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation and observability tools to monitor Crusoe’s compute infrastructure, spanning from the kernel to orchestration layers.
• Support and scale the company’s virtualization stack, including technologies such as KVM, QEMU, and other hypervisors.
• Collaborate with Linux kernel and hardware teams to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, driver issues, and optimize hardware offloads.
• Achieve key performance optimizations for AI and HPC workloads across CPU, GPU, and DPU/NIC resources.
• Participate in root cause analysis for kernel crashes, hardware-software integration problems, and performance regressions.
• Implement and validate support for emerging compute hardware, including SmartNICs, BlueField devices, and TPUs.
• Tune kernel subsystems such as the process scheduler, NUMA configuration, memory management, and interrupt handling.
• Work closely with platform teams to ensure seamless integration and validation of new hardware components.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in Compute SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure roles.
• Strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals, with exposure to scheduler, memory allocation, and driver subsystems.
• Experience with virtualization architectures and technologies such as KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware.
• Familiarity with SmartNICs/DPUs (e.g., NVIDIA CX6/7, BlueField-3) and kernel bypass techniques.
• Expert-level skills in at least one programming language: Go, C or Rust.
• Experience with system-level debugging, including kdump, kexec, and kernel panic analysis.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tooling and CI/CD practices for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of compute scheduling, resource management, and high-throughput networking.

Bonus points

• Experience porting or maintaining custom Linux distributions or kernels for specific platforms.
• Exposure to AI model infrastructure and workload orchestration across GPU clusters.
• Contributions to Linux kernel, KVM, or other low-level infrastructure projects.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field preferred.

Skills

• Linux kernel internals and subsystems.
• Virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU).
• SmartNICs/DPUs and kernel bypass techniques.
• Programming languages: Go, C, Rust.
• System-level debugging and root cause analysis.
• Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices.
• Compute scheduling, resource management, and high-throughput networking.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off & paid holidays
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
• Volunteer time off

Pay

Compensation will be paid in the range of $209,000 – $253,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Schedule

N/A