Staff Production Engineer, Compute
Core
Supporting virtualization, hypervisor, and kernel-level performance for Crusoe's compute infrastructure to deploy and optimize bare-metal and virtualized platforms for AI and HPC workloads.
Role type
Staff Production Engineer (Compute Infrastructure)
Builds
Bare-metal and virtualized compute platforms optimized for AI and HPC workloads
Domain
AI Infrastructure / High-Performance Computing / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux kernel internals, virtualization architectures (KVM, Xen, QEMU), SmartNIC/DPU expertise, system-level debugging, Infrastructure as Code, compute scheduling, high-throughput networking
Preferred skills
Custom Linux distribution maintenance, AI model infrastructure orchestration, Linux kernel contributions
Technologies
KVM, QEMU, Xen, VMware, NVIDIA CX6/7, BlueField-3, TPUs, Go, C, Rust
Responsibilities
Develop automation and observability tools for compute infrastructure; support and scale the virtualization stack; optimize performance for AI/HPC across CPU, GPU, and DPU/NIC resources; perform root cause analysis for kernel crashes and hardware-software issues; tune kernel subsystems (scheduler, NUMA, memory, interrupts); validate support for emerging compute hardware.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC
