Crusoe
Senior Staff Data Center Systems Engineer, R&D
$188K–$235K
Denver, CO - US · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years of progressive engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
About the job
Leads R&D architecture for Crusoe’s data centers, evaluating emerging technologies and guiding integrated infrastructure concepts from pilot testing through hyperscale deployment.
What you'll do
- Define integrated electrical, mechanical, thermal, and compute reference architectures; maintain system-level interfaces and standards.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and guide them from feasibility and bench-scale testing through pilot deployment and hyperscale rollout.
- Provide technical leadership, partner across engineering teams, and build relationships with vendors, startups, academic groups, and research institutions.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of progressive engineering experience in data center design, large-scale infrastructure, hyperscale computing environments, or industrial power systems.
- Ability to architect across engineering domains, including electrical power, mechanical/thermal systems, compute infrastructure, and facility design.
- Working knowledge of power generation and distribution, cooling technologies including direct liquid cooling, facility design, and compute/networking infrastructure.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline. Advanced degree preferred but not required.
Nice to have
- Direct hyperscale experience in systems architecture or principal engineering; modular or containerized data center design; DC power distribution; HPC and GPU-accelerated AI infrastructure; or mission-critical facility design.
- Advanced degree.
Pay
up to $188,000 -$235,000+ Bonus (compensation range; pay type not specified)
Tools
direct liquid cooling, DC power distribution, high-performance computing (HPC), GPU-accelerated AI infrastructure
AI focus
Develops data center architectures and evaluates technologies to support AI infrastructure and GPU-accelerated workloads.
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