Position:
Senior Production Engineer, Compute
Company:
Crusoe Energy Systems
Compensation:
$170,000 - $205,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers.
Location:
US, Sunnyvale, CA
Employment type:
Full time
Work Arrangement:
On-site
Short Summary:
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence, building sustainable, AI-first cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on supporting virtualization, hypervisor, and kernel-level performance for Crusoe’s compute infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Develop automation and observability tools to monitor compute infrastructure.
- Support and scale the company’s virtualization stack, including KVM, QEMU, and other hypervisors.
- Collaborate with Linux kernel and hardware teams to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Optimize performance for AI and HPC workloads across CPU, GPU, and DPU/NIC resources.
- Participate in root cause analysis for kernel crashes and performance regressions.
- Tune kernel subsystems such as process scheduler, NUMA configuration, and memory management.
- Work with platform teams to implement support for emerging compute hardware.
Requirement:
- 5+ 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 and kernel bypass techniques.
- Expert-level skills in at least one programming language: Go, C, or Rust.
- Experience with system-level debugging and proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tooling.
Benefits:
- Industry competitive pay
- Restricted Stock Units
- Health insurance options (HDHP and PPO, vision, dental)
- Employer contributions to HSA accounts
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
- Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Subscription to the Calm app
- Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month