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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.\nWe'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.\nWe'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.\nIf 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.\nAbout the Role:\nWe're looking for a People Research Scientist to join our People Science and Workforce Intelligence team. You'll be the research lead for the wider People organization bringing scientific rigor to the questions that matter most as Crusoe scales: how well do we hire, what makes people stay, grow and do great work here, and which of our investments actually make a difference.\nThe role sits where organizational science, behavioral research and people strategy meet. You'll build frameworks and run systematic research that shape people decisions at one of the fastest-growing companies in AI infrastructure.\nYou'll study a workforce few people science teams ever see. Our workforce spans a high-growth tech company, a distributed manufacturing operation, and a field organization building and running data centers internationally.\nWhat You'll Be Working On:\nOwn research design and scientific inquiry\nForm and test hypotheses about people programs, employee behavior and workforce outcomes using rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental methods.\n\nRun longitudinal studies to learn what creates long-term success, engagement, and retention as we scale.\n\nSynthesize external research and industry evidence on people interventions to find best practices and gaps.\n\nPartner cross-functionally to design and run systematic studies on employee experience, manager effectiveness and organizational health across corporate, engineering and field teams.\n\nApply sound research ethics and data privacy practices to all employee research.\n\nProgram effectiveness and impact\nBuild evaluation plans into people programs from the start, including onboarding, manager 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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.\nCrusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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