Crusoe
Senior Staff Applications Engineer - Spark
$190K–$215K
Denver, CO - US · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of progressive engineering experience; the posting lists experience spanning data center infrastructure, power generation or utility interconnection, industrial capital projects, or modular and containerized systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
About the job
Own Spark’s technical-fit evaluation for sites, partnerships, and commercial opportunities, and provide technical judgments that help qualify deployments of modular data centers and liquid-cooling products.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain site qualification criteria, scoring, decision thresholds, and reporting; train teams to use the framework.
- Assess escalated and non-standard opportunities, deliver fit verdicts, and evaluate engineering deviations and their cost and schedule impacts.
- Partner with development and commercial teams on site assessments, field validation, technical diligence, and product-roadmap feedback.
What they ask for
- 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 first-principles feasibility decisions under incomplete information, with accountability for recommendations carrying capital consequences.
- 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, or energy development, interconnection processes/queues, and behind-the-meter site configurations.
Pay
up to $190,000-$215,000 USD base salary; Bonus amount not stated
Tools
Spark modular data center (MDC), Spark-Liquid (DLC), MV/LV distribution, switchgear, transformers, CDUs, PUE
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