Staff Production Engineer, Compute
Crusoe — San Francisco, California, United States · In-Person · Staff+ · $209k - $253k/yearly
Role description
Role Overview
Join Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, to build the future of AI compute infrastructure. As a Staff Production Engineer, you'll support virtualization, hypervisor, and kernel-level performance for Crusoe's compute infrastructure, ensuring performance, security, and scale for modern AI and HPC workloads.
What You Will Do
Develop automation and observability tools to monitor Crusoe's compute infrastructure, support and scale the company's virtualization stack, and optimize performance for AI and HPC workloads across CPU, GPU, and DPU/NIC resources.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This role requires 8+ years of experience in Compute SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure roles, with strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals and experience with virtualization architectures and technologies.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in Compute SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure roles
- Strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals
- 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
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
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- 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