Principal Engineer, Conductor Platform (CAPE)
You will lead the architecture and development of a control plane for Crusoe's AI infrastructure platform. You will define the platform architecture, topology graph, reconciliation loop, policy engine, hardware lifecycle automation, observability plane, site autonomy, automated remediation, and multi-team orchestration while driving technical standards, roadmaps, design reviews, and execution across teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end platform architecture
- Define topology graph and infrastructure abstractions
- Design reconciliation between intended and runtime state
- Design policy-gated hardware lifecycle automation
- Orchestrate provisioning, imaging, firmware upgrades, repair, and re-admission
- Build a unified observability plane
- Enable site autonomy across network partitions
- Automate detection, remediation, migration, quarantine, and re-admission
- Replace cross-team handoffs with policy-checked work orders
- Set architecture and operating standards
- Lead design reviews and build-versus-adopt decisions
- Own the phased roadmap and milestones
- Mentor senior engineers
- Partner with hardware, network, datacenter, and product leadership
Requirements
- 10+ years building infrastructure-layer systems at scale
- Deep experience with distributed systems design
- Experience with state reconciliation, event-driven orchestration, workflow engines, and policy enforcement
- Experience architecting platforms composed of many services
- Hands-on fluency with bare-metal provisioning, firmware and BIOS management, GPU telemetry, and InfiniBand or RoCE fabrics
- Experience designing large-scale observability or telemetry platforms
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems language
- Experience with graph data models for infrastructure topology or security attestation and SBOM tooling
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Professional development
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Location-specific perks and programs