Senior Automation Engineer, Compute

About the Role

As a Senior Deployment Automation Engineer for the Compute Team, you will be responsible for deployment and testing automation of large-scale, multi-node GPU clusters. You will develop the CI/CD infrastructure, including both deployment and integration testing, for a rapidly scaling fleet of virtualized GPU and CPU hosts across our AI Cloud. Your role is critical in ensuring the stability of the low-level infrastructure and enabling teams across our Cloud Infrastructure organization to quickly and reliably release, test, and deploy their artifacts across our datacenters.

What You'll Be Working On

• Deployment and Integration Testing: Develop applications and systems for deployment and integration testing on bare-metal, on-premise systems across Crusoe’s AI Cloud Stack.
• CI/CD Automation and Tooling: Build CI/CD platforms that enable developers to quickly test, iterate, and deploy critical, low-level systems and applications.
• Multi-Node Scaling Validation: Design and execute large-scale validation tests across multi-node virtualized clusters to ensure linear scaling and stability of GPU workloads.
• Configuration Management and Observability: Maintain and scale bare-metal Linux configurations using a mix of custom and off the shelf tooling such as Gitlab, Ansible, osquery, etc.
• Deployment Orchestration: Create control applications to coordinate canary deployments on live production systems, run Blue/Green testing, and perform automatic rollback where necessary.
• Cluster Orchestration: Develop and maintain automation frameworks in Python or Go to dynamically provision, configure, and stress-test multi-node virtualized environments.
• Create automated test suites leveraging tools like fio, stress-ng, and iperf to ensure performance and multi-tenant isolation of CPU and GPU hosts.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Education & Experience: 5+ YOE demonstrated ability to competently and independently perform responsibilities plus Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience building and deploying automated integration testing, ranging from low-level Linux Systems up to Distributed Control Planes.
• Proven track record of designing and deploying microservice applications end to end in a distributed Cloud Environment.
• A strong understanding of how cloud resources (Compute, Network, Storage) are abstracted and managed in an IaaS environment.
• Working knowledge of the modern infrastructure stack, including Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Postgres.
• CI/CD & Gitlab: Intimate knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Gitlab Tooling to enable stable infrastructure releases across multiple datacenters.
• Configuration Management: Previous experience with at least 1-2 configuration management systems, including Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack.
• System Internals: Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, specifically PCIe topology, VFIO, and memory management (HugePages, IOMMU).

Bonus Points

• Distributed GPU Ecosystems: Familiarity with NVIDIA (CUDA/NCCL) and/or AMD (ROCm/RCCL) stacks in a multi-node context.
• Networking Knowledge: Understanding of RDMA, RoCE, and InfiniBand protocols and their implementation in virtualized systems.
• Experience with MNNVL (Multi-Node NVLink) or specialized AI fabric architectures.
• Familiarity with hardware-level debugging tools and performance profilers (e.g., NVIDIA Nsight, AMD Omniperf).
• Knowledge of containerized orchestration for GPUs (e.g., Kubernetes with specialized device plugins).

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 $170,000 -$205,000 + 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.