Engineering Manager, Deployment

Employer description

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 Cloud is seeking an Engineering Manager, Deployment to help lead the organization responsible for physically and logically bringing our global network online. As we rapidly scale our footprint of high-performance compute (HPC) and GPU-based AI infrastructure, you will manage a deployment team’s people, process, and delivery across a portion of our growing portfolio of concurrent global builds, working closely with Network Deployment technical leadership to execute against strategy.

You’re accountable for your team’s output: every site, every quarter, at hyperscale pace. You build and grow your team, help drive adoption of deployment standards in day-to-day practice, and contribute to planning conversations with Data Center Ops, Supply Chain, and Site Reliability leadership.

What You’ll Be Working On:

Build and Lead Your Team: Manage your team’s structure and growth. Hire and develop Network Production Engineers across multiple sites and time zones.

Drive Deployment Automation Adoption: Help execute the automation strategy across the deployment lifecycle, including ZTP-based provisioning, Ansible-driven configuration, and CI/CD pipelines for network turn-up. Hold your engineers accountable for replacing manual, repeatable steps with automated workflows as the site pipeline scales.

Deliver Your Portion of the Portfolio: Be accountable for on-time, zero-defect delivery across your assigned site build-outs. Manage the operating cadence and staffing for your team within the broader program.

Execute Against Strategy: Work with Network Deployment technical leadership to turn deployment strategy and standards into execution plans for your team, and surface field realities that should inform how those standards evolve.

Report on Program Status: Provide program reporting and risk escalation on your team’s work to Data Center Ops, Supply Chain, and Site Reliability leadership as needed.

Manage Vendor and Partner Performance: Hold structured cabling vendors, remote hands, and data center providers to defined SLAs and quality bars for your sites. Escalate systemic partner issues.

Champion Validation Rigor: Ensure burn-in and site acceptance testing (SAT) standards are consistently met across your sites. Partner with Operations leadership on handoff quality and root-cause resolution.

Support Capacity Planning: Provide input to Supply Chain and Infrastructure leadership on hardware lifecycle, lead-time risk, and turn-up cadence for your team’s site pipeline.

Contribute to Continuous Improvement: Participate in cross-site retrospectives and post-incident reviews. Surface gaps in tooling, staffing, or process for your team.

Develop Team Members: Coach engineers into stronger technical and people contributors.

Apply Frontend Network Reference Architecture: Build sites against established reference architectures for the frontend GPU/compute fabric (leaf-spine design, RDMA/RoCE, optics, scale-out topology), and provide field feedback to Architecture as GPU generations and interconnect standards evolve.

Apply Backend Network Reference Architecture: Build sites against established reference architectures for backend networks (storage fabric, management, out-of-band connectivity), ensuring your team’s builds integrate cleanly with frontend fabric during turn-up.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

6+ years of experience in network engineering or data center deployment, including 2+ years managing engineers in a large-scale infrastructure environment.

Proven People Leadership: Track record of building and retaining a high-performing technical team.

Program Execution: Demonstrated ability to deliver on multiple concurrent, complex projects spanning sites, time zones, and vendors, with solid reporting and risk management.

Strong Technical Fluency: Solid grounding in physical layer standards (structured cabling, optics, 400G/800G and beyond), leaf-spine fabric (Arista/Juniper/NVIDIA-Mellanox), and protocols (BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, LLDP), enough to guide your team and engage credibly with Architecture.

Automation Fluency: Working understanding of Python/Ansible/ZTP-based deployment automation and CI/CD patterns, sufficient to drive adoption within your team.

Vendor and Partner Management: Experience holding external partners to SLAs, including escalation when performance slips.

Clear Communication: Comfortable setting context and managing expectations with stakeholders across Ops, Supply Chain, and Architecture.

Operational Judgment: Able to balance near-term delivery pressure against team health and sustainability.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience in hyperscale or ISP environments.

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 $200,000 - $240,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s 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.