Senior Staff Applications Engineer - Spark

The role

You will build and maintain an evaluation framework to determine the technical fit of sites and partnerships for Spark product lines. You will serve as the technical authority for product capabilities and provide feasibility assessments to support energy development and business teams.

What you will do

• Build and maintain standardized screening criteria and scoring models for Spark deployments.
• Equip business development and partner teams to apply the qualification framework.
• Serve as the point of contact for escalated technical feasibility assessments.
• Identify and quantify engineering cost and schedule impacts for deviations from standard configurations.
• Evaluate technical fit for non-standard applications like edge deployments and industrial sites.
• Provide technical inputs for financial modeling including power and cooling assumptions.
• Translate engineering tradeoffs into decision frameworks for executive stakeholders.
• Conduct site walks to convert observations into product requirements and risk registers.
• Serve as the technical counterpart to the Energy Development Group.
• Feed recurring field constraints back to Spark design engineering and R&D.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive engineering experience in data center infrastructure, power generation or utility interconnection, industrial capital projects, or modular and containerized systems.
• Working fluency across electrical, mechanical/thermal, and civil/structural data center infrastructure disciplines.
• Track record of making feasibility calls from first principles under incomplete information.
• Ability to hold technical credibility with external developers, utilities, enterprise customers, and executives.
• Ability to connect engineering decisions to $/MW, capex, PUE, and deployment schedules.
• Demonstrated depth on a specific engineered product or platform.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.

Nice to have

• Experience with modular, containerized, or prefabricated infrastructure product lines.
• Familiarity with agency certification and AHJ coordination for modular electrical equipment across varied jurisdictions.
• Deep familiarity with energy development, interconnection processes/queues, and behind-the-meter site configurations.

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.