Staff Cloud Hypervisor R&D

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. Senior/Staff Cloud Hypervisor R&D Location: San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite) Role Mission At Crusoe, we are building the "engine room" of the AI revolution. We are seeking a Staff Cloud Hypervisor R&D Engineer to serve as the lead architect for our next-generation virtualization stack. In this role, you will move beyond standard virtualization to design a "Greenfield" hypervisor environment where GPUs, DPUs, and high-speed interconnects are first-class citizens. You will be responsible for eliminating the "virtualization tax," ensuring our cloud infrastructure delivers bare-metal performance for the world’s most demanding AI/ML workloads. What You’ll Be Working On: Next-Gen Hypervisor Architecture: Lead the R&D and implementation of core hypervisor components (KVM, QEMU, or custom Rust-based solutions) s