Senior Staff Solutions Engineer (NYC)

The role

This person will lead technical onboarding and deployment of AI/ML workloads for strategic enterprise customers. They will architect workloads using Kubernetes-based stacks and help customers migrate workloads across cloud platforms.

What you will do

• Lead technical onboarding and deployment of complex AI/ML workloads.
• Own the POC through to post-sales optimization.
• Architect and deploy ML workloads using Kubernetes-based stacks.
• Design infrastructure that balances performance, scalability, and efficiency.
• Deploy and optimize AI/ML workloads directly on Crusoe infrastructure.
• Help customers migrate and adapt workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Conduct workshops, live demos, and solution reviews.
• Contribute to case studies, solution briefs, and blog posts.
• Relay feedback to internal engineering and product teams.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years building and deploying containerized workloads.
• Experience with Helm, Terraform, Docker, and multi-node orchestration.
• Demonstrated success deploying ML frameworks (e.g., Ray, MLflow, Airflow) on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with compute, storage, networking, and scaling in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Able to navigate stakeholder conversations, gather requirements, lead technical engagements, and support customers in both pre- and post-sales environments.
• Strong Linux and CLI Proficiency.
• Strong communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ray, Kubeflow, or other distributed ML orchestration platforms
• Exposure to Slurm, but with a primary focus on containerized MLOps over traditional HPC
• Multi-cloud deployment or migration experience (especially AWS ➝ Crusoe transitions)
• Content contributions (tech talks, blogs, public case studies)

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. They use an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.