Crusoe

Senior Staff Automation Engineer

San Francisco, CA - US. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will own deployment and integration testing automation for bare-metal, on-premise systems across the AI Cloud Stack. You will build CI/CD platforms and develop automation frameworks to manage multi-node virtualized GPU and CPU clusters.

What you will do

  • Own deployment and integration testing automation for all bare-metal, on-premise systems.
  • Build CI/CD platforms for low-level systems and applications.
  • Design and execute large-scale validation tests across multi-node virtualized clusters.
  • Maintain and scale bare-metal Linux configurations using tools like Gitlab, Ansible, AWX, and osquery.
  • Create control applications to coordinate canary deployments, Blue/Green testing, and automatic rollbacks.
  • Develop and maintain automation frameworks in Python or Go to provision and stress-test environments.
  • Create automated test suites using tools like fio, stress-ng, and iperf.

Required qualifications

  • 12+ YOE demonstrated ability to competently and independently perform responsibilities
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
  • Experience building and deploying automated integration testing for an AI Cloud Environment
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Postgres
  • Intimate knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Gitlab Tooling
  • Previous experience with at least 1-2 configuration management systems, including Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and/or Bash
  • Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, specifically PCIe topology, VFIO, and memory management (HugePages, IOMMU)
  • Familiarity with NVIDIA (CUDA/NCCL) and/or AMD (ROCm/RCCL) stacks in a multi-node context
  • Strong understanding of RDMA, RoCE, and InfiniBand protocols

Nice to have

  • Experience with MNNVL (Multi-Node NVLink) or specialized AI fabric architectures
  • Familiarity with hardware-level debugging tools and performance profilers (e.g., NVIDIA Nsight, AMD Omniperf)
  • Knowledge of containerized orchestration for GPUs (e.g., Kubernetes with specialized device plugins)

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 a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. The company uses an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.