Senior Project Engineer - Spark Deployments
Crusoe · San Francisco, California
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Employment
- Full time
- Level
- Senior
- Posted
- Yesterday
About this role
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack - from electrons to tokens - to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that - with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved - people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
About This Role
Crusoe's Spark Business Unit is scaling deployment of the company's modular power and compute infrastructure across multiple sites. This role sits within the Digital Infrastructure Group's Engineering team, dedicated full-time to Spark deployment execution. You'll support project and site-level engineering across active deployments, coordinating with the design engineering function on mechanical, thermal, and controls scope while owning execution, site planning, and vendor coordination at the project level. This role augments the team's general engineering capacity. This is an in-office role, five days a week, based out of one of Crusoe's office locations.
What You'll Be Working On
Support site layout, planning, design, and execution for small- to medium-scale data
center deployment projects
Support the mechanical and controls design, specification, and equipment selection
Coordinate site-level infrastructure deployment methodologies, including chillers,
transformers, UPS solutions etc…
Work with internal & external design and construction partners to execute projects, and coordinate with internal stakeholders
Support the mechanical and thermal rollout as Spark evolves from air-cooled baselines
to next-generation high-density liquid-cooled architectures, executing against designs
rather than authoring them Serve as a dedicated Spark deployment resource, for project-level engineering work.
What You'll Bring to the Team
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field
5+ years of mechanical engineering experience with exposure to chilled water systems
and equipment, air cooling, and HVAC
Experience with control strategies and sequence of operations for mechanical systems
Industrial or mission critical experience is required
Data Center experience is preferred, but not required
Experience executing or managing chilled water system installations and central
equipment (chillers, pumps, etc) at the project or site level
Working proficiency with CAD tools (Revit, Navisworks, Bluebeam) for reviewing and
coordinating design documents
Working knowledge of relevant mechanical codes and standards (ICC, ASME B31.x,
ASHRAE guidelines, NFPA standards)
Comfortable partnering across hardware, software, design engineering, and construction
teams to execute deployment projects on schedule
Bonus Points
Experience with modular building deployment or construction
Familiarity with BIM workflows and full-lifecycle drawing packages (30/60/90/100%)
Professional Engineer (PE) license
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
Volunteer time off
Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
Daily meals allowance
Additional perks & programs specific to location
Compensation Range
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $145,000 -$200,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, 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.
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About Crusoe
Crusoe is building the World’s Favorite AI-first Cloud infrastructure company. We’re pioneering vertically integrated, purpose-built AI infrastructure solutions trusted by Fortune 500 companies to power their most advanced AI applications. Crusoe is redefining AI cloud infrastructure, with a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. Our AI platform is recognized as the “gold standard” for reliability and performance. Our data centers are optimized for AI workloads and are powered by clean, renewable energy.
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