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Director of Engineering, Dynamic Energy Management

Crusoe· Cloud Engineering
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San Francisco, CA - US, Sunnyvale, CA - US$285k - $335kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Leadership role building and operating a ground-up, safety-critical dynamic energy management system that couples utility-grade control with Crusoe’s AI-enabled cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own the curtailment orchestration and decision layer: grid-signal ingestion, staged shedding, per-SKU power capping without ever silently dropping a paid workload
  • Land a utility-validated pilot: fast ramp to setpoint, tight accuracy, high-fidelity telemetry, and the test harness that proves it before we commit to a utility
  • Deliver dynamic power management for oversubscription — more GPUs per megawatt with no customer-visible impact
  • Build fast, workload-aware GPU power estimation, validated against fleet telemetry : the engine behind shed forecasting, oversubscription admission, and power planning for new silicon
  • Design for safety: authenticated signal ingress, bounded blast radius, fail-safe defaults, manual backstops
  • Own graceful ride-through of power-loss and grid-stress events, integrated with on-site battery and generation backstops
  • Partner deeply with Data Center Engineering (mechanical, electrical, controls) and Energy teams on interconnection commitments, curtailment program design, and BESS/generation integration
  • Integrate with our cloud control plane across Kubernetes and Slurm fleets : one control plane, not two
  • Make build-vs-leverage calls across vendor power-management stacks and grid integration layers
  • Hire and lead the team from the ground up, keeping headcount sublinear to fleet growth through automation

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ leading engineering teams, ideally taking a system from 0→1 to production scale
  • Deep experience with distributed control planes, orchestration, or fleet automation (e.g., Temporal, Kubernetes, Slurm)
  • A track record with safety-critical or physically-actuating systems, where a misfire has a bounded, designed-for worst case
  • Working knowledge of data-center power systems: utility interconnection, switchgear/UPS/BESS, rack/PDU distribution, power telemetry, and GPU power management
  • Experience with energy markets or grid programs demand response, curtailable-load tariffs, ISO/RTO market signals (e.g., ERCOT, PJM, CAISO) or demonstrated speed to fluency in them
  • Strong build-vs-buy judgment and comfort deciding with incomplete data
  • A record of hiring senior engineers and running healthy operations for systems that must never fail silently

Skills

Required:Leadership and team buildingDistributed control planesSafety-critical systemsPower systems and data-center knowledge

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
  • Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
  • Employer contributions to HSA account
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Professional development & tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health & wellness support
  • Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
  • Cell phone stipend
  • 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
  • Volunteer time off
  • Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
  • Daily meals allowance
  • Additional perks & programs specific to location
Last updated Oct 22, 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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