Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company with a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. Our competitive advantage—“Speed is the only moat”—is directly tied to our ability to rapidly design, deploy, and optimize our modular power and compute infrastructure
We are seeking a Principal Systems Integration Engineer to join our R&D team as the senior technical authority responsible for defining the future of Crusoe’s data center architecture. You will evaluate next-generation technologies—working with emerging startups, established industry providers, and research institutions—and lead the development of system-level integration concepts that advance Crusoe’s infrastructure from pilot-scale validation through hyperscale deployment
This is a rare role in the industry. At most companies, power engineers never talk to compute architects, and facility designers work in isolation from software teams. As part of Crusoe’s R&D organization, you will work at the seams between these disciplines—scanning the industry for emerging technologies, building relationships with the companies and researchers developing them, defining reference architectures for future platforms, and partnering with engineering teams across the company to take R&D concepts from bench-scale evaluation to production deployment. If you want to shape the next generation of AI data center technologies, this is the role
Future Architecture Definition: Lead the development of next-generation data center reference architectures that integrate across electrical, mechanical, thermal, and compute domains. Evaluate how emerging technologies reshape design assumptions and define the architectural path from pilot-scale validation through hyperscale deployment
Technology Evaluation & Industry Scanning: Continuously scan the industry for emerging technologies, new vendor capabilities, and evolving standards that could impact data center architecture. Lead structured evaluations of candidate technologies through a full-system lens—assessing not just point performance, but how each technology integrates within the broader infrastructure and scales from prototype to production
Systems Integration: Define and maintain the systems-level architecture that governs how Crusoe’s infrastructure layers interface and co-optimize. Ensure coherence across engineering disciplines and prevent design decisions in one domain from creating constraints elsewhere
Pilot-to-Hyperscale Progression: Guide emerging technologies through the full lifecycle—from initial evaluation and bench-scale testing through pilot deployment, production validation, and hyperscale rollout. Define the technical criteria and milestones that determine readiness at each stage
R&D Technical Leadership: Serve as the principal technical voice within the R&D organization on infrastructure architecture. Drive feasibility assessments, lead design reviews for pilot programs, and provide senior technical input on go/no-go decisions for emerging technologies
Specifications & Standards: Author high-level system specifications, interface control documents, and design standards that inform future platform development. Translate R&D findings into actionable engineering guidance for production teams
Engineering Team Partnership: Partner with engineering teams across the company as R&D’s primary technical interface—sharing insights from technology evaluations, translating domain-specific decisions into system-wide implications, and ensuring R&D outputs are aligned with the needs of the teams building and deploying infrastructure
External Partnerships: Build and maintain technical relationships with industry providers, emerging startups, OEMs, academic research groups, and national laboratories. Evaluate vendor and partner roadmaps, test claims, and identify opportunities for early access to next-generation technologies and collaborative development
Strategic Advisory: Partner with R&D and company leadership on technology choices that support Crusoe’s long-term growth strategy. Help shape the company’s perspective on where the industry is headed and how Crusoe should position itself