Staff Production Engineer, Compute

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation and observability tools to monitor compute infrastructure from kernel to orchestration layers
• Support and scale the virtualization stack including KVM, QEMU, and other hypervisors
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, driver issues, and optimize hardware offloads
• Optimize performance for AI and HPC workloads across CPU, GPU, and DPU/NIC resources
• Perform root cause analysis for kernel crashes, hardware-software integration problems, and performance regressions
• Tune kernel subsystems including process scheduler, NUMA configuration, memory management, and interrupt handling
• Implement and validate support for emerging compute hardware like SmartNICs, BlueField devices, and TPUs

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in Compute SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure
• Strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals (scheduler, memory allocation, driver subsystems)
• Experience with virtualization architectures (KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware)
• Familiarity with SmartNICs/DPUs and kernel bypass techniques
• Expert-level skills in Go, C, or Rust
• Experience with system-level debugging (kdump, kexec, kernel panic analysis)
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure
• Strong understanding of compute scheduling, resource management, and high-throughput networking

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and Restricted Stock Units
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4%
• Paid parental leave and volunteer time off
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement