Engineering Manager, Managed AI Platforms

Crusoe’s mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We’re crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI — without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.

Be a part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you’ll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About This Role:

Join Crusoe Energy as an Engineering Manager and lead a talented team focused on revolutionizing our cloud infrastructure. In this pivotal role, you’ll be architecting the foundation at which Crusoe builds their in-house AI agent infrastructure and platform capabilities. This is a role dedicated towards building the scaffolding on which Crusoe will operate their internal agents. The right candidate for this role is interested in AI security, debugability, and privacy, with an emphasis on developer productivity.

This is a full-time opportunity for a passionate leader who thrives on building high-performing teams, fostering innovation, and delivering impactful, data-driven solutions in a dynamic environment.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Agent scaffolding: Enable secure, scalable agentic development inside of Crusoe.

  • Integrate a unified observability layer to debug and observe agent behavior

  • Secure architecture that ensures proper data handling and sandboxing for headless agent execution

  • Designing on-ramps for internal teams to deploy and operate their own agents the “Crusoe” way

• Workflow optimization: Play a critical role in the development of internal tooling and AI-enabled workflows

  • Architect the next generation of developer tooling built on the internal Crusoe platform

  • Build lowest-common-denominator flexible solutions that leave room for a wide range of use cases

• Push the envelope: Stay plugged into the latest in the AI enablement space

  • What new and innovative ways can Crusoe employ agentic workflows across engineering and beyond

  • How can Crusoe leverage its infrastructure as a cloud provider to retain an edge in the agent space

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Proven Leadership: Demonstrate a strong track record of people management, leading with empathy, and fostering a sustainable workload for your teams.

  • 4+ years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams

  • Strong track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineering talent

• Technical Acumen: Possess the capability to manage a team where problems, opportunities, and strategies may not be fully defined, driving clarity and direction.

  • This is a hands-on keyboard leadership role. This role requires the leader to be involved in architecture decisions and to be regularly making technical contributions.

  • Expertise in LLM-based agentic systems is a requirement.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Exhibit excellent technical communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively collaborate across diverse roles and functions.

  • This team will have customers across the engineering organization, this role requires the ability to field multiple requests from multiple teams while still fulfilling a unified mission.

• Global Scale Experience: Experience building and operating global services at scale. This architecture will be adopted by teams around the world.

• Organizational Prowess: Be extremely organized, capable of managing complex initiatives and team priorities effectively.

• Required Education: Bachelor’s degree.

Bonus Points:

• Passion for coaching and mentoring engineers into high-performing individuals.

• Enthusiasm for building and establishing a team culture with a high quality of life for engineers.

• Highly motivated and proactive in seeking opportunities to improve processes and boost team efficiency.

• A true “people-person” who thrives in collaborative environments and is energized by group exercises and teamwork.

Benefits:

• Industry competitive pay

• Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company

• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents

• Employer contributions to HSA accounts

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Teladoc

• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary

• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule

• Cell phone reimbursement

• Tuition reimbursement

• Subscription to the Calm app

• MetLife Legal

• Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month

Compensation:

Compensation will be paid in the range of $204,000 – $247,000. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.