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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:\nCrusoe Cloud is seeking a Sr. to Senior Staff level Solutions Engineer to work closely with our most strategic enterprise customers deploying AI/ML workloads on Crusoe’s high-performance GPU infrastructure. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role requiring deep technical expertise in Kubernetes, MLOps, and cloud infrastructure.\nYou’ll guide customers through end-to-end deployment-owning the PoC process, optimizing workloads post-sale, and serving as a critical technical voice between our customers and engineering teams. Ideal candidates are passionate about AI infrastructure, fluent in containerized environments, and confident in translating workloads across cloud platforms.\nWhat You'll Be Working On:\nCustomer Enablement: Lead technical onboarding and deployment of complex AI/ML workloads with strategic enterprise customers-owning the POC through to post-sales optimization.\n\nKubernetes + MLOps Focus: Architect and deploy ML workloads using Kubernetes-based stacks (e.g., Ray, Kubeflow) Design infrastructure that balances performance, scalability, and efficiency.\n\nInfrastructure-Centric Thinking: Go beyond abstracted services-deploy and optimize AI/ML workloads directly on Crusoe infrastructure. Ensure performance at the container and hardware level.\n\nCross-Cloud Translation: Help customers migrate and adapt workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Understand and explain the tradeoffs between cloud-native and Crusoe-native approaches.\n\nTechnical Storytelling: Conduct workshops, live demos, and solution reviews. Contribute to case studies, solution briefs, and blog posts that highlight real-world customer success.\n\nVoice of the Customer: Relay feedback to internal engineering and product teams to continuously improve Crusoe’s platform based on real-world implementation experience.\n\nWhat You'll Bring to the Team:\nDeep Kubernetes Expertise: 7+ years building and deploying containerized workloads. Experience with Helm, Terraform, Docker, and multi-node orchestration a must.\n\nMLOps Deployment Experience: Demonstrated success deploying ML frameworks (e.g., Ray, MLflow, Airflow) on Kubernetes-especially for inference and model training workflows.\n\nHands-on Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge:Familiarity with compute, storage, networking, and scaling in AWS, GCP, or Azure. 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