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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:\nAs a Senior Deployment Automation Engineer for the Compute Team, you will be responsible for deployment and testing automation of large-scale, multi-node GPU clusters. You will develop the CI/CD infrastructure, including both deployment and integration testing, for a rapidly scaling fleet of virtualized GPU and CPU hosts across our AI Cloud. Your role is critical in ensuring the stability of the low-level infrastructure and enabling teams across our Cloud Infrastructure organization to quickly and reliably release, test, and deploy their artifacts across our datacenters.\nWhat You'll Be Working On:\nDeployment and Integration Testing: Develop applications and systems for deployment and integration testing on bare-metal, on-premise systems across Crusoe’s AI Cloud Stack.\n\nCI/CD Automation and Tooling: Build CI/CD platforms that enable developers to quickly test, iterate, and deploy critical, low-level systems and applications.\n\nMulti-Node Scaling Validation: Design and execute large-scale validation tests across multi-node virtualized clusters to ensure linear scaling and stability of GPU workloads.\n\nConfiguration Management and Observability: Maintain and scale bare-metal Linux configurations using a mix of custom and off the shelf tooling such as Gitlab, Ansible, osquery, etc.\n\nDeployment Orchestration: Create control applications to coordinate canary deployments on live production systems, run Blue/Green testing, and perform automatic rollback where necessary.\n\nCluster Orchestration: Develop and maintain automation frameworks in Python or Go to dynamically provision, configure, and stress-test multi-node virtualized environments.\n\nCreate automated test suites leveraging tools like fio, stress-ng, and iperf to ensure performance and multi-tenant isolation of CPU and GPU hosts.\n\nWhat You'll Bring to the Team:\nEducation & Experience: 5+ YOE demonstrated ability to competently and independently perform responsibilities plus Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.\n\nExperience building and deploying automated integration testing, ranging from low-level Linux Systems up to Distributed Control Planes.\n\nProven track record of designing and deploying microservice applications end to end in a distributed Cloud Environment.\n\nA strong understanding of how cloud resources (Compute, Network, Storage) are abstracted and managed in an IaaS environment.\n\nWorking knowledge of the modern infrastructure stack, including Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Postgres.\n\nCI/CD & Gitlab: Intimate knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Gitlab Tooling to enable stable infrastructure releases across multiple datacenters.\n\nConfiguration Management: Previous experience with at least 1-2 configuration management systems, including Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack.\n\nSystem Internals: Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, specifically PCIe topology, VFIO, and memory management (HugePages, IOMMU).\n\nBonus Points\nDistributed GPU Ecosystems: Familiarity with NVIDIA (CUDA/NCCL) and/or AMD (ROCm/RCCL) stacks in a multi-node context.\n\nNetworking Knowledge: Understanding of RDMA, RoCE, and InfiniBand protocols and their implementation in virtualized systems.\n\nExperience with MNNVL (Multi-Node NVLink) or specialized AI fabric architectures.\n\nFamiliarity with hardware-level debugging tools and performance profilers (e.g., NVIDIA Nsight, AMD Omniperf).\n\nKnowledge of containerized orchestration for GPUs (e.g., Kubernetes with specialized device plugins).\n\nBenefits:\nCompetitive compensation and equity packages\n\nRestricted Stock Units\n\nPaid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs\n\nComprehensive health, dental & vision insurance\n\nEmployer contributions to HSA account\n\nPaid parental leave\n\nPaid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability\n\nProfessional development & tuition reimbursement\n\nMental health & wellness support\n\nCommuter benefits (parking & transit)\n\nCell phone stipend\n\n401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary\n\nVolunteer time off\n\nGlobal travel insurance & emergency assistance\n\nDaily meals allowance\n\nAdditional perks & programs specific to location\n\nCompensation Range\nCompensation will be paid in the range of up to $170,000 -$205,000 + Bonus. 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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