Staff Hardware Systems Engineer, Performance - crusoe

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads.

When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About This Role:

We are seeking a Staff Hardware Systems Engineer to strengthen Crusoe’s Hardware Systems Engineering team and close critical skill gaps in debugging, validation, performance evaluation and production support of high-performance compute systems. In this role, you will participate in the full hardware lifecycle – from prototype bring-up to large-scale production while driving automation, deep issue resolution, and reliability across Crusoe Cloud’s GPU- and CPU-based infrastructure.

You will be collaborating with hardware, software, infrastructure, and vendor engineering teams while working across platform bring-up, validation and performance characterization. Your work will directly impact Crusoe’s ability to deploy and operate sustainable, AI-first compute systems with world-class performance and reliability.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Drive the end-to-end lifecycle of next-generation compute platforms, including evaluation, bring-up, validation, deployment, and production readiness.
• Define and execute performance characterization and validation strategies for CPU, GPU, and accelerated computing platforms.
• Conduct in-depth workload characterization studies across training and inference - dense, MoE, long-context, and multimodal models to understand compute, memory, communication, and I/O behavior on target platforms.
• Translate workload and platform insights into cluster-level tuning and configuration recommendations: topology, parallelism strategy, scheduling, power, and software stack settings to maximize delivered performance and efficiency.