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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 This Role\nAs Crusoe Cloud expands across new GPU and CPU server platforms, we're investing deeply in the firmware that underpins fleet reliability, security, and operability - and we're hiring a founding engineer to lead our BMC firmware work.\nYou'll set the technical direction for BMC firmware across Crusoe's server platforms and drive the work end-to-end: architecture, platform bring-up, release engineering, fleet reliability, and security. You'll lead the BMC engineering relationship with our ODM and OEM partners and hire, mentor, and scale the team behind this work. You should be equally comfortable reading schematics, debugging host interfaces, reviewing a partner's pull request, and presenting BMC roadmap tradeoffs to leadership.\nWhat You'll Own\nBMC firmware and platform bring-up\nDefine Crusoe's BMC architecture and stack strategy across current and future platforms.\n\nLead BMC bring-up on new server platforms - kernel, U-Boot, device tree, sensor management, fan and thermal control, power sequencing, host interfaces - working with partner engineering teams from schematics and hardware design docs.\n\nOwn the BMC build, CI/CD, signing, and release pipeline end-to-end.\n\nDrive BMC security architecture: secure boot, root of trust, attestation, SPDM, signed update flows, firmware resiliency, and response to firmware CVEs.\n\nODM/OEM engineering partnership\nLead the BMC technical relationship with ODM and OEM partners - setting direction, aligning on scope, and shipping firmware Crusoe is proud of.\n\nAuthor and own the BMC sections of platform requirements; drive architecture reviews and technical deep-dives with partner engineering teams.\n\nDrive prototyping, qualification, and production readiness of BMC firmware on new platforms, working together with partner engineering teams to hit Crusoe's technical bar.\n\nProduction reliability and fleet operations\nBuild out BMC-driven telemetry and observability - sensor, power, thermal, and RAS data flowing into Crusoe Cloud's ops and SRE stack - so the BMC layer is a first-class source of platform truth.\n\nPartner with platform and production teams to investigate and resolve systemic BMC issues surfaced from the fleet.\n\nDefine SLOs and update/rollback strategy for BMC firmware across a growing fleet.\n\nTeam building\nHire and grow the BMC team - defining the team shape, recruiting firmware engineers, and setting the engineering standards the team will scale on.\n\nProvide data-driven input into Crusoe's hardware roadmap, platform selection, and reliability investments.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nRequired\n8+ years of firmware engineering, with deep hands-on BMC experience.\n\nHands-on expertise with at least one production BMC stack (OpenBMC, AMI MegaRAC, or equivalent), including the embedded Linux, U-Boot, and device tree layers underneath.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading BMC bring-up on new server platforms - working from schematics, I2C/PMBus device maps, GPIO assignments, and platform power sequencing.\n\nStrong C/C++ on embedded Linux; comfortable in Python or shell for automation and tooling.\n\nDeep familiarity with BMC management protocols and standards: IPMI 2.0, Redfish, PLDM, MCTP, and NC-SI.\n\nHands-on debugging across BMC-to-host interfaces: eSPI, LPC, IPMB, KCS, BT (Block Transfer).\n\nBS/MS in CS, EE, CompE, or equivalent experience.\n\nStrongly Preferred\nExperience working with ODM/OEM partners on BMC firmware - leading engagements is a plus, but strong technical collaboration counts.\n\nFamiliarity with Yocto / BitBake (or equivalent build systems for embedded Linux distributions).\n\nProduction experience: BMC firmware you've shipped is running in a fleet today, and you've debugged it there.\n\nBMC security work: secure boot, RoT, DICE, SPDM, attestation, firmware resiliency, or response to a real firmware CVE.\n\nFamiliarity with DC-MHS / DC-SCM and current OCP hardware management direction.\n\nTrack record of growing a firmware engineering team - hiring, technical mentorship, and setting engineering practices.\n\nBonus\nActive OpenBMC contributor or maintainer.\n\nExperience with GPU server platforms (HGX-class systems, GPU baseboard management, NVLink/PCIe topology debug).\n\nBackground in host firmware (UEFI/BIOS, coreboot), CPLD, or retimer firmware.\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 $237,000 -$288,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.\nCrusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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