Crusoe
Senior ML Engineer, Developer Relations Engineering
San Francisco, CA - US. Posted 11 days ago
The role
You will build agentic AI systems and show other developers how they work. You will create reference agents, open-source integrations, and sample applications on Crusoe Cloud and Crusoe Managed Inference.
What you will do
- Architect and ship end-to-end reference agents and starter kits on Crusoe.
- Own code examples, tutorials, and documentation.
- Own Crusoe's developer-facing GitHub presence.
- Contribute upstream to agent frameworks, inference engines, and developer tooling.
- Turn systems into technical content like blog posts, notebooks, YouTube videos, and livestreams.
- Share work on social platforms like X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Discord, Reddit, and Hacker News.
- Partner with GTM/Solutions Engineering to create use-case blueprints.
- Test features and models before launch and provide product input.
- Give technical talks, live demos, and hands-on labs at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and workshops.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years as a software engineer, ML engineer, applied AI engineer, forward-deployed engineer, or in a similar hands-on engineering role, with strong Python.
- Ability to earn credibility with both AI infrastructure engineers and ML/AI engineers.
- Hands-on experience building LLM applications and agents with tool calling, MCP, retrieval, memory, and evaluation, using one or more frameworks such as LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, or
- Experience working with cloud computing platforms (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure) or managed AI solutions, with a foundational understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts.
- Working knowledge of how models are served, including OpenAI-compatible APIs, open-weight models, and serving engines such as vLLM or SGLang.
- Evidence of sharing technical work in public through GitHub repos, open-source contributions, blog posts, videos, talks, or an active technical presence on social platforms.
- Strong communication skills across written and verbal formats, including technical documentation, white papers, video explainers, and presentation decks.
- Ability to work well across teams, set own priorities, and ship in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to travel up to 20%.
- Bachelor's/Master's/PhD degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Maintainer or significant contributor to an open-source AI, agent, or inference project
- Experience producing technical video content such as YouTube tutorials, livestreams, or screencasts
- Experience fine-tuning or post-training open-weight models (SFT/RL/LoRA)
- An existing technical audience that trusts your views on models, agents, and tooling
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
About the company
Crusoe is an AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. They use an energy-first approach to solve the demand for AI compute.