Junior Engineering Manager, Managed AI

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Job Summary:

Crusoe is building the World’s Favorite AI-first Cloud infrastructure company, pioneering AI infrastructure solutions for Fortune 500 companies. As an Engineering Manager on the Managed AI team, you will lead a team of engineers in developing high-performance infrastructure for AI applications, guiding design and implementation while fostering a collaborative engineering culture.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and grow a team of software engineers working on Crusoe’s Managed AI platform

• Set clear goals, drive accountability, and support career development for team members

• Partner with product and engineering leadership to define and execute on the AI roadmap

• Foster a high-performance, collaborative engineering culture grounded in technical excellence

• Oversee the architecture and development of core AI services, including:

• Fault-tolerant task queues

• Model management systems

• Cost-aware scheduling frameworks

• High-performance APIs for real-time inference

• Ensure the team delivers scalable systems capable of handling millions of API requests per second

• Guide the team in implementing performance optimizations for GPU-based inference workloads

• Work cross-functionally with product managers, infrastructure teams, and GTM stakeholders

• Represent engineering in strategic discussions related to AI platform growth and customer adoption

• Promote knowledge sharing, technical mentorship, and operational best practices within the team

• Contribute to the evolution of Crusoe’s engineering processes and broader AI strategy

Qualifications:

Required:

• 2 years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams

• Strong track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineering talent

• Ability to lead teams through ambiguity and drive alignment around complex technical goals

• Prior hands-on experience building distributed systems or AI infrastructure

• Deep understanding of cloud-native environments, container orchestration, and service-oriented architectures

• Comfortable owning deliverables from early design through production rollout

• Strong collaboration skills, with a bias for clarity, context sharing, and customer impact

• Experience operating in fast-paced startup or growth-stage environments

• Growth-minded leader who empowers and supports others

• Excellent communicator and relationship builder

• Passionate about building world-class AI infrastructure and teams

Preferred:

• Background in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

• Proficiency in Python or Golang

• Familiarity with open-source AI ecosystems (e.g., VLLM, Hugging Face, Triton)

• Experience working with Kubernetes, gRPC, and observability stacks

Company:

Crusoe is the industry’s first vertically integrated, purpose-built AI cloud platform. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Crusoe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.