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Senior Production Engineer, Managed AI

Crusoe· Cloud Engineering
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San Francisco, CA - US, Sunnyvale, CA - US, Bellevue, WA - US$170k - $205kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Crusoe seeks a Senior Production Engineer with a strong distributed-systems background and hands-on experience with large language models to design, operate, and scale managed AI services in an AI-first cloud platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate reliable managed AI services with a focus on serving and scaling LLM workloads
  • Build automation and reliability tooling to support distributed AI pipelines and inference services
  • Define, measure, and improve SLIs/SLOs across AI workloads to ensure performance and reliability targets are met
  • Collaborate with AI, platform, and infrastructure teams to optimize large-scale training and inference clusters
  • Automate observability by building telemetry and performance tuning strategies for latency-sensitive AI services
  • Investigate and resolve reliability issues in distributed AI systems using telemetry, logs, and profiling
  • Contribute to the architecture of next-generation distributed systems purpose-built for AI-first environments

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering background — experience building production-grade systems beyond scripting or Bash
  • Demonstrated experience in distributed systems design and implementation
  • Hands-on work with large language models (LLMs) or AI/ML infrastructure
  • SRE mindset and experience (whether or not under the SRE title) including: - Defining and measuring SLIs/SLOs - Building monitoring and observability systems - Driving performance and reliability improvements - Designing fault-tolerant systems and automated testing strategies
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, Java, C++)
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment

Skills

Required:Software engineeringDistributed systems designLarge language models / AI infrastructureProgramming languagesKubernetes / container orchestrationCollaboration and communication
Nice to have:SRE / observability

Benefits

  • Industry competitive pay
  • Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
  • Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
  • Employer contributions to HSA accounts
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Teladoc
  • 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
  • MetLife Legal
  • Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Crusoe

The AI factory company | Renewable-powered AI infrastructure

Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach. Deploy AI workloads at scale with reliable performance and 24/7 support.

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