Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
Crux AI is led by CEO, Ben Treynor Sloss, who spent over two decades in executive technical leadership at Google, led the creation of Google’s global network, and founded the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) discipline. At Crux AI, we treat operations and network infrastructure fundamentally as a software engineering problem.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Crux AI is standing up multi-gigawatt TPU cluster fabrics and edge networking from zero. As Director, Data Center Networking, you will own the network layer end-to-end, from powered shell to the production fabric moving traffic at line rate.
Reporting directly to the CTO, you will build and scale our global network engineering function from scratch. This is a true hands-on, builder seat, not a supervisory position.
You will lead an elite group of unusually senior network and automation engineers, acting as the chief technical authority interfacing with Google’s TPU networking teams. You must thrive on high autonomy and revel in ambiguity, translating complex physical and logical constraints into concrete engineering priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
In this role, you will:
Build & Lead the Network Engineering Org: Recruit, structure, and develop an elite global team of senior network engineers across North America and Europe to scale ahead of rapid fleet builds.
Set Fabric & Edge Architecture: Establish the global plan-of-record design standards for high-density TPU supercomputing clusters.
Own Network Provisioning: Define and execute network provisioning, turn-up, and burn-in procedures from powered shell through Level 5 / IST commissioning, optimizing the velocity of capacity delivery.
Own Network Reliability & Observability: Drive fabric reliability, incident response, and telemetry/observability in tight coordination with SRE, establishing self-healing automation to remediate faults before they impact customers.
Drive Network Automation & IaC: Own network automation from day one, establishing Infrastructure-as-Code as the mandatory basis for all configuration.
Direct Google TPU Engineering Partnership: Serve as the primary technical authority partnering with Google’s TPU networking teams on fabric integration, link qualification, and co-engineering roadmaps.
Cross-Functional Infrastructure Alignment: Partner with Capacity Delivery, Facility Operations, and the Energy Manager on site handoffs and constraints; align with SRE on reliability and observability.
Optimize Network Economics & Margins: Feed network cost, lead times, and hardware procurement inputs into the capacity plan of record and cost/margin models.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Assessed active site network architectures; established working relationship with Google TPU networking teams; published the standardized fabric design adopted as plan of record for upcoming builds.
After 6 months:
Delivered a production network turn-up on the first site; automated provisioning workflows to eliminate manual config; onboarded initial senior network engineering hires across geographies.
After 1 year:
Standardized network architecture deployed as reference design across the fleet; fabric incident response running on automated telemetry rather than heroics; function delivering defensible cost/lead-time models to the business.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
15+ years in large-scale data center, ISP, or hyperscale network engineering, with 7+ years leading network engineering teams.
Deep Knowledge of High-Performance Fabrics: Hands-on mastery of high-throughput AI/ML or HPC networks at hyperscaler or neocloud scale.
Data Center Provisioning: Track record standing up network provisioning and turn-up processes using Infrastructure-as-Code techniques across multiple data center builds, partnering directly with construction, MEP, and capacity delivery teams.
Attributes
Senior Talent Magnet: Track record of attracting, evaluating, and leading senior network engineers who excel in fast-paced, high-stakes infrastructure environments.
Mindset
Builder Mindset & Ambiguity: A true \"builder, not supervisory\" orientation; comfortable owning 2am fabric escalations early on, navigating ambiguity, and establishing structure amidst rapid growth.
AI-Agentic First: Active utilization of AI agents and automated workflows to streamline network diagnostics, telemetry parsing, and provisioning or an enthusiastic commitment to adopting them rapidly.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Hyperscaler / Neocloud Leadership: Network engineering leadership at a hyperscaler or leading neocloud during rapid growth.
TPU / GPU Cluster Operations: Direct experience with TPU/GPU interconnect fabrics, collective communication debugging, and scale-out burn-in testing.
Hyperscale Supplier Partnership: Experience managing technical co-engineering relationships with major technology/silicon partners comparable to Google.
Expert-Level Technical Depth: CCIE/JNCIE-level technical rigor (formal credential not required).
0-to-1 Org Building: Experience building a network engineering function from scratch.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Reporting to the Chief Development Officer, you will build Crux AI's powered campus pipeline, leading the origination, structuring, acquisition, and development of the sites that carry the platform to roughly 2 GW of annual delivery. You will own each opportunity from origination through infrastructure hold point, handing over campuses that are ready for vertical construction.
Power is the binding constraint, so you will lead power origination and capacity planning while coordinating the wider infrastructure ecosystem around it, driving procurement and delivery for substations, transformers, switchgear, transmission and distribution upgrades, broadband, and the other long-lead assets that determine energization dates. You will build and hold the relationships this depends on across utilities, ISOs and RTOs, municipalities, and infrastructure partners, and structure development and acquisition strategies that preserve expansion optionality without sacrificing near-term capacity.
You will convert opportunities into executable, bankable projects with clear accountability for schedule, feasibility, and site readiness - orchestrating utilities, municipalities, permitting authorities, infrastructure providers, and communities while identifying and mitigating risks across infrastructure delivery. That means installing governance and diligence rigorous enough that development assumptions reflect real infrastructure availability, procurement timelines, and execution constraints rather than optimistic scheduling. And you will build a lean development organization using AI, automation, and modern diligence tools to qualify opportunities faster, and building the operating processes that let a small team run a rapidly expanding portfolio.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
You will understand the capacity plan and have a candid view of which committed sites will hold their energization dates.
You will have pressure-tested the power position on every site in the current portfolio: queue position and study status, what the utility has actually executed versus indicated, and where bridging power is required to hit commissioning.
You will have built the sourcing pipeline and the screening framework that goes with it, covering brokers, developers, utilities, and economic development agencies, with power-first criteria and an honest kill threshold.
Your relationships with the utilities, ISOs, and municipalities are established and personal, not delegated.
After 6 months:
The long-lead equipment position is secured or ordered (transformers, switchgear, substation scope, and T&D upgrades) with delivery dates that support the build schedule rather than trailing it.
Incremental capacity for the Q4 2028 target is under control: sites identified, land secured or optioned, power contracted, and entitlement paths mapped.
Your diligence and governance process is running, and IC-ready approval packages carry honest schedule ranges with named risks rather than single-point dates.
The development team is hired and productive, with the AI-enabled diligence and pipeline tooling in daily use rather than in pilot.
After 1 year:
The pipeline runs ahead of the build plan. Campuses reach infrastructure hold point ready for vertical construction, and construction is never waiting on land, power, or fiber.
You have a repeatable origination machine, a lean team executing against a portfolio far larger than its headcount would suggest.
Crux is a counterparty utilities want to work with. You are getting shown opportunities before they hit the market.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
Origination through campus readiness. Senior experience in data center, digital infrastructure, power, or infrastructure development, with personal ownership of advancing large-scale projects from origination all the way to campus readiness.
Power markets and utility engagement. Strong command of power markets, interconnection, utility engagement, and grid dynamics — specifically in constrained or competitive environments where capacity is contested.
Securing infrastructure, not procuring inputs. Proven ability to secure and coordinate the full set of critical infrastructure required to enable development, rather than sourcing individual components in isolation.
Complex deal structuring. Track record identifying, structuring, and executing development opportunities that deliver scalable capacity, with fluency across land, permitting, entitlements, and stakeholder engagement.
Long-lead dependency management. Experience managing long-lead infrastructure requirements and multiple interlocking dependencies inside complex development programs.
Attributes
Hands-on and credible. Engages utilities, developers, and infrastructure partners at real depth.
Creative and resourceful in sourcing. Finds and acts on opportunities others overlook, and is comfortable with deals that are imperfect and time-sensitive.
Decisive and pragmatic. Assesses risk quickly and moves in competitive markets without waiting for perfect information.
Commercially minded. Balances speed, cost, scalability, and long-term flexibility in every development and infrastructure decision.
Mindset
Technology-enabled operator. Uses AI, automation, and modern diligence tools to qualify opportunities and accelerate decisions, and builds scalable process so a lean team can carry a large portfolio.
Honest about schedule. Builds development assumptions that reflect real procurement timelines and execution constraints, and would rather deliver a hard date than an appealing one.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
What you’ll do
Your first job is to negotiate and manage excellent contracts with Crux’s supply partners including the strategic technology partnership with Google as Crux’s TPU supply, OEM/ODM relationships for HW equipment and networking, data center services and MEP equipment supply chain as Crux begins building its own facilities, and the indirect categories such as third-party services, managed business functions and software that keep the company running.
Excellent means total cost of ownership over the life of asset / contract, not unit price: delivery certainty, warranty and support terms, roadmap commitments, and supply quality that is defined in the contract and measured and tracked after signature.
Supply is the binding constraint on Crux’s growth, and the terms, timing, and reliability you negotiate determine what Crux can sell, when, and at what margin — so ensuring continuity of supply, through diversified sources, buffer and allocation commitments, and contractual protections against disruption, is as much your job as price.
Because Crux’s supply agreements and customer contracts both run for years, every negotiation is forward-looking: the question is never only today’s price and allocation, but how supply costs, generation roadmaps, and partner commitments will evolve over the life of the assets Crux deploys.
Your second job is to make sure the contracts deliver what they promise — building and leveraging AI tools to manage the contract portfolio, track partner compliance to terms and quality commitments, and prevent value leakage between what was negotiated and what is delivered and invoiced. You’ll partner across Demand/Supply Planning, Capacity Delivery, Pricing, Finance, and Legal, and with the supply, product, and support organizations of Crux’s supplier partners.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Mapped key supply partners and their supply, roadmap, and support organizations and establish yourself as Crux’s primary working-level counterpart.
Stood up a partner operating cadence with Google and other key suppliers — weekly supply reviews, monthly executive syncs, and a shared issues and escalations log.
Delivered a consolidated view of committed chip allocation, delivery schedules, and open commercial terms against Crux’s Stage 1 capacity plan, with a multi-year TCO view of supply and its impact on unit economics.
Completed a category map of Crux’s direct and indirect spend — the foundation of Crux’s spend cube — with a prioritized sourcing plan for the next 12 months.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
After 6 months:
Negotiated and closed the allocation, pricing, and delivery terms for Crux’s first set of cluster deployments on a TCO basis, with measurable supply quality and service commitments written into the contracts and the cost inputs feeding the cost and margin model of record.
Selected and contracted Crux’s initial OEM/ODM partners for HW equipment and networking, with commercial terms and delivery commitments aligned to the deployment plan.
Supply risk and continuity framework in place — delivery slippage, generation transitions, quality, and single-source exposure — with mitigations agreed with partners and Capacity Delivery.
Established Crux’s sourcing and contracting process for indirect categories with Finance and Legal, and have Crux’s spend cube live as a centralized, near real-time view of spend across categories, suppliers, and sites.
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role — you have built, in a hands-on way, AI-enabled tools for contract management, compliance tracking against negotiated terms and quality commitments, and invoice-to-contract reconciliation that the team uses every day.
After 1 year:
Secured the supply commitments required for Stage 1 completion and a credible path to the Stage 2 plan, with terms that hold up as generations transition and volumes scale.
Have a multi-category supply portfolio under active management — accelerators, OEM/ODM, data center equipment, and indirect — with a consistent negotiation playbook, a commercial terms framework, and supplier quality scorecards tracked against contract.
Quantified record of value protected — leakage identified and recovered across pricing, delivery, quality, and service terms — and be positioned to build and lead the sourcing and partnership function as Crux scales.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
8–10+ years in strategic sourcing, supply management, or partner management for hardware or infrastructure, including direct responsibility for negotiating large, allocation-constrained, multi-year supply agreements with hyperscalers, semiconductor vendors, or OEM/ODMs on a total-cost-of-ownership basis
Managed a multi-category supply portfolio spanning direct hardware and indirect services, including post-signature contract compliance and supplier quality management, and understand how hyperscaler and major vendor supply, roadmap, and support organizations make decisions
You are outcome driven and hands on. This is a builder’s seat, not a supervisory one — you build your own tools, use AI and automation as a default in everyday work, and you’d rather build an agent that reads every contract and flags every deviation than find the leakage in a quarterly review
You are a relationship builder and a hard negotiator at the same time. You can protect Crux’s position on terms and timing while keeping partners invested in Crux’s success
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along
You negotiate for the life of the asset, not the purchase order in front of you. You think in total cost of ownership, model how terms play out over years, and care about supply quality and certainty across the fleet more than any single win
Nice to have [Preferred, not required]:
Direct experience with TPU, GPU, or other accelerator supply and allocation
Experience sourcing data center equipment — power, cooling, electrical, and mechanical — for new builds
Familiarity with hardware logistics, import/export controls, and trade compliance
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will build the financing model to support massive AI infrastructure builds - developing innovative strategies to access cost-effective capital and continuously optimizing the balance sheet to maximize value.
In this role, you will:
Reporting to the CFO, raise multi-billion dollar financings across multiple instrument types, manage banking and debt investor relationships, drive the financial execution of public equity market transactions, and evaluate opportunistic M&A.
Contribute broadly and have significant responsibility for all capital raising processes. You’ll partner across Finance, Legal, our sponsors, and the executive team to drive our capital markets strategy.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Gained a complete understanding of our current financing status and go-forward needs and begin developing short and medium-term strategies to address those needs.
Established key relationships with investment banks and our sponsors.
Established key relationships with rating agencies.
Adapted to a fast paced environment.
After 6 months:
Lead the structuring, negotiation, and closing of diverse debt facilities: which may include construction financing, asset-backed securitizations (ABS), equipment leasing facilities, GPU-collateralized loans, supply chain financing, and revolving credit facilities.
Developed an efficient process for end-to-end deal management, driving efficient access to favorable markets through excellence in deal execution.
Optimized debt covenants, collaborating with legal and accounting teams.
Managed post-close debt operations: covenant tracking, interest rate hedging strategies, and rating agency interactions.
Established an M&A evaluation strategy, to allow the company to efficiently evaluate inorganic growth opportunities, and support execution of those strategies where appropriate.
After 1 year:
Recruit, mentor, and lead a lean, high-performing team to drive the Corporate Finance function.
Drive execution of potential equity raises alongside the CFO.
Demonstrate consistent operational excellence and impeccable attention to detail.
Develop innovative approaches to solving for industry-wide concerns regarding meeting the needs for scaled M&A capital.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
6–10+ years of relevant experience, which may include starting with 3–6 years at a top-tier investment bank or private equity/private credit fund.
Prior in-house experience in a Capital Markets, Corporate Development, or Strategic Finance role at a high-growth, capital-intensive company.
Direct track record of closing complex debt facilities (structured credit, asset-based lending, or high-yield) and equity offerings ($1B+ transaction sizes).
Attributes
You are willing to negotiate aggressively to get to the right outcome. Comfortable diving deep on term sheets and legal documents with the attorneys, while maintaining the ability to innovate in the face of broad capital raising needs.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You operate as an owner, not a supervisor.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Hardware, infrastructure or data center industry experience
Experience in both start up and scaled enterprises
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Power is the binding constraint on AI capacity, and you will own it for Crux — securing megawatts, making energization dates real, and managing energy cost and risk across the portfolio. You will negotiate with utilities, market operators, and power providers across interconnection, tariffs, and supply agreements, and you will pressure-test every power claim behind a site or third-party deal before we commit capital to it. The role spans development and operations: getting new load connected on the dates the business is selling, structuring bridging and behind-the-meter solutions when the grid date and the customer date do not match, and managing the energy P&L of sites in production.
In this role, you will:
Manage commercial relationships with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and energy suppliers across a multi-state portfolio — interconnection and load studies, rate structures and tariff strategy, energy service agreements, and PPAs.
Own energization reality for every project: separately validate the date power supports commissioning and the date it supports operations, and when the first is later than the schedule needs, structure and price bridging power into the base plan — not the risk register.
Support site selection and third-party deal screening as the power diligence lead — verifying interconnection queue positions, capacity claims, study status, and utility commitments behind every site and powered-shell offer.
Develop behind-the-meter and on-site generation options (gas gen, fuel cells, storage, islanded/bridge configurations) where they beat the grid on speed or cost, and manage the developers and OEMs who deliver them.
Negotiate agreements that preserve flexibility — load ramp schedules, curtailment terms, capacity expansion rights — so power contracts scale with the fleet rather than constraining it.
Manage energy cost across operating sites: forecasting, hedging strategy with finance, demand/tariff optimization, and monthly energy P&L reporting by site.
Represent Crux with regulators, policymakers, and communities on rate cases and energy matters affecting our loads, in coordination with legal and external affairs.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
You will have the power position mapped for every active site and deal in the pipeline: interconnection status, energization dates (commissioning and operations, separately), contract status, and the top risks with owners and mitigation paths.
After 6 months:
You will have the first utility/supply agreements negotiated or renegotiated on Crux paper.
The bridging strategy is in place for any site with a grid-date gap.
The power diligence standard is embedded in the site selection and 3P screening process.
After 1 year:
You will have ensured every energization commitment made to the business has held or been re-forecast early with a remedy.
Portfolio energy cost is tracking at or under plan.
A credible multi-GW power pipeline is supporting the growth roadmap.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years navigating commercial energy issues for large customer loads — utility negotiations, interconnection processes, transmission/distribution fundamentals, and wholesale market structures across multiple US markets (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP, WECC).
Direct experience contracting large new loads: energy service agreements, PPAs, interconnection and facilities agreements, and rate/tariff negotiations — ideally for data centers or comparable industrial loads at 100MW+ scale.
Exposure to behind-the-meter or on-site generation development (gas, fuel cells, storage) and to bridging-power structuring on schedule-driven projects.
Attributes
Outcome driven and hands-on. You personally lead the negotiations, read the tariffs and study reports, and build the model — the person accountable for the megawatts has to be close enough to the detail to know which claims are real.
A skeptic’s eye for power claims. “Power secured” means an executed agreement with dates and remedies, not a queue position and a handshake — and you can tell the difference in one meeting with a utility.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. Markets, queues, and policy will move under you. You translate genuine unknowns into concrete near-term actions and honest ranges rather than manufacturing false certainty about a date the grid has not committed to.
Speed with discipline. The company sells time-to-compute; you find the fastest credible path to power and paper it so the speed survives scrutiny by lenders, partners, and customers.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents — or committed to becoming so quickly — and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
Hyperscaler or neocloud energy team experience during a rapid load-growth ramp.
Regulatory experience — rate cases, special contracts, or large-load tariff proceedings.
Energy trading, hedging, or structured-products background.
Engineering fluency in substation, interconnection, and protection basics — enough to challenge a utility study on its merits.
Sustainability/clean-energy procurement experience (RECs, carbon accounting, 24/7 matching).
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will be the owner’s technical authority for the mechanical, electrical, and controls systems behind Crux’s TPU fleet. You will translate Google’s TPU cluster requirements — densities, liquid cooling, power quality, network topology constraints — into facility requirements, and hold every design to them: our own basis of design on greenfield projects, and third-party provided designs.
The role runs the full lifecycle: design reviews and equipment selection, commissioning oversight, and engineering support for sites in operation. You will be one of the first engineers in the building, so you will also help write the standards the rest of the fleet inherits.
In this role, you will:
Own the facility basis of design for TPU deployments: power distribution architecture, direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems (CDUs, TCS/FWS loops, water quality), heat rejection, electrical topologies and redundancy, and BMS/EPMS controls.
Translate TPU pod requirements from Google into rack, row, and room-level facility requirements — and keep design standards current as hardware generations change under you.
Review third-party designs (powered shells, BTS, colo) for AI-readiness against Crux requirements — density, cooling approach, electrical capacity and quality, expansion headroom — and give the deal team an unambiguous accept/modify/reject with the cost of each gap.
Run design reviews with AE engineers and consultants; challenge designs on constructability and field labor content, and push scope toward prefabricated and factory-built assemblies (skids, power modules, cooling plants) where they buy schedule and cost.
Lead equipment selection and vendor technical evaluation for major MEP gear — switchgear, UPS, generators, CDUs, chillers, dry coolers — including factory witness testing and long-lead procurement support.
Own commissioning from the owner’s side: review Cx plans and scripts, witness Levels 3–5 and IST, drive issue resolution, and hold the line on first-time-right turnover to operations.
Support operating sites as escalation engineer for facility events — root cause analysis, corrective designs, and retrofits — feeding every lesson back into the design standard.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
You will be fluent in the TPU facility requirements set.
The first design review cycle will be complete with findings documented.
AI-readiness review checklist for third-party designs will be drafted and in use on live deals.
After 6 months:
Crux basis of design v1 will be issued for the reference deployment.
Major equipment selections will be made with technical justification.
Commissioning oversight will be running on the first project, with ops acceptance criteria integrated.
After 1 year:
First site will be commissioned and operating to design intent (density, PUE, thermal stability at load), with field and operational lessons incorporated.
Third-party review process will be trusted by the deal team as fast and decisive.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years in mechanical/electrical engineering for data centers or critical facilities — design, commissioning, or owner’s engineering — with deep working knowledge of NEC, NFPA, IEEE, and ASHRAE standards and BMS/EPMS systems.
Direct experience with high-density AI/HPC infrastructure: direct-to-chip liquid cooling, 100kW+ racks, large-scale UPS/generator plants — you have designed, commissioned, or operated it, not just read about it.
Owner-side design review experience — holding AE engineers, vendors, and developers accountable to a requirements set and putting a cost on every deviation.
Attributes
Hands-on technical authority. You are comfortable being the most senior engineer in the room and also the one redlining the one-line late at night. You walk the site, witness the tests, and read the submittals yourself.
Constructability is part of the design. You evaluate every design choice for field labor content and schedule impact, not just steady-state performance — in constrained labor markets, moving work from field to factory is an engineering decision you own.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. Hardware requirements will shift mid-design and the schedule will not wait for a perfect standard. You make sound engineering calls with incomplete information, state your assumptions, and correct fast.
Operations-back engineering. A design is finished when it is commissioned and a technician can maintain it at 3am — you design for the handoff, not the drawing set.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents — or committed to becoming so quickly — and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required):
PE license (mechanical or electrical).
TPU or large GPU cluster deployment experience, or close work with hyperscaler hardware/facility integration teams.
Commissioning credentials or agent-side experience (Levels 1–5, IST) on mission-critical projects.
CFD/thermal modeling and electrical studies fluency (SKM, ETAP, coordination/arc-flash).
Prefabricated/modular power and cooling product experience on the vendor or buyer side.
Experience at a hyperscaler, neocloud, or leading Cx/AoR firm during an AI-densification program.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will own critical facility operations for one Crux site or campus — the electrical, mechanical, fire/life-safety, and controls infrastructure that keeps high-density, liquid-cooled TPU clusters continuously available. You will lead the 24/7 site facility team — chief engineer, shift technicians, and O&M contractors — and run the maintenance, procedures, drills, and change control that produce uptime, whether the building is Crux-owned or operated by a colocation partner you hold to SLA. In the early phase you will help bring the site to life: commissioning participation, acceptance, and the transition from construction to disciplined steady-state operations.
In this role, you will:
Establish and direct the site facility operations team — chief engineer, critical facility technicians, and contractors — with a 24/7 coverage model you design, staff, and train, maintaining highly available operations for all critical and non-critical infrastructure.
Operate and maintain the site’s electrical systems (utility interface through switchgear, generators, UPS, and distribution), mechanical plant (chilled water, direct-to-chip liquid cooling loops, CDUs, heat rejection), fire/life-safety, and BMS/EPMS controls.
Run the site maintenance program in CMMS — preventive, predictive, and corrective — with vendor and OEM service contracts managed to scope, and zero tolerance for overdue critical PMs.
Enforce operating discipline: SOPs/MOPs/EOPs current and rehearsed, change management on every energized system, drill program run on schedule, and monthly self-assessments presented to fleet leadership.
Lead site incident response for facility events end to end — detection, stabilization, escalation, root cause, corrective action — including communication when customer workloads are at risk.
On partner sites, manage the colocation operator to contracted SLAs: audit their maintenance records, witness their critical work, and enforce remedies when performance slips.
Support site bring-up: participate in commissioning through Level 5/IST, define and enforce ops acceptance criteria, tune the cooling plant to design intent in the first year, and manage warranty claims.
Own the site facility budget, utility coordination, and efficiency performance (PUE, WUE, energy cost), and run a safety-first culture (LOTO, energized work controls, working at height) with zero-compromise standards.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Site staffing plan and 24/7 coverage model will be approved with hiring in motion.
Ops acceptance criteria will be agreed upon with construction/commissioning.
After 6 months:
CMMS is loaded with the site asset registry and PM schedules.
Procedures library is drafted for every critical system (or partner program audited, on a colo site).
After 1 year:
First site is operating with 24/7 coverage under the full standards library.
Preventive maintenance program is live in CMMS with zero overdue critical PMs.
Incident and change management program running.
Colo partner SLA and audit program in force at partner sites.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years in critical facility or data center operations — including power generation, HVAC, or mission-critical military/industrial environments — with 5+ years managing technical teams and vendors operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure in a 24/7 environment.
Comprehensive working knowledge of electrical topologies (N+1/2N, UPS, generators, switchgear), mechanical and liquid cooling systems, fire/life-safety, and building automation — plus the safety programs (LOTO, hazardous energy control) that govern work on them.
Site bring-up or major expansion experience: commissioning participation, acceptance testing, and the construction-to-operations handoff on a mission-critical facility.
Attributes
Owner of the building. When the plant alarms at 2am it is yours until the site is stable and the root cause is written down. You are comfortable being the most senior Crux person on site and making the call under pressure.
Discipline without bureaucracy. You run tight MOPs, drills, and change control because they prevent outages, and you kill process that does not — and you can tell the difference.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. The site will energize before every procedure exists. You write the SOP, run it, fix it, and hand it to the next site rather than waiting for a standard to arrive.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents — or committed to becoming so quickly — and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
7+ years in Tier III/IV or hyperscale data center environments (Meta, Google, AWS, Microsoft, or a major colo operator).
Direct-to-chip liquid cooling plant operations experience (CDUs, water chemistry, loop commissioning and tuning).
Trade certifications (Electrical, HVAC, Controls), stationary engineer license, or military/nuclear power background.
CMMS/EAM administration experience and comfort with energy and reliability analytics.
Experience managing a colocation operator to SLA from the tenant side.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will find and secure the sites Crux’s capacity roadmap runs on — through both channels: third-party capacity (powered shells, build-to-suits, colo blocks, and turnkey partner deals) and first-party greenfield development (land, power, incentives, entitlements). You will run a live pipeline of opportunities, screen fast and kill fast, and take the survivors through diligence, negotiation, and internal approval. Power availability drives the map, so you will work hand-in-glove with the Energy Manager on interconnection reality, and with design, construction, legal, and finance to turn a promising site into a committed, buildable project.
In this role, you will:
Build and manage the site pipeline across both channels — sourcing from brokers, developers, utilities, economic development agencies, and direct landowner outreach — with disciplined screening criteria, a maintained tracker, and honest kill decisions.
Lead diligence on third-party offerings: verify power claims (queue position, study status, executed agreements), permits and entitlements, shell design AI-readiness, developer credibility, and delivery schedule — and negotiate LOIs, leases, and BTS agreements on terms that protect Crux.
Lead first-party greenfield development: land control and acquisition, utility engagement, incentive negotiations with state and local agencies, zoning and entitlements, and environmental review through to a shovel-ready site.
Underwrite sites on power-first economics: commission geotechnical investigation before commitment, budget site conditions and bridging power as base scope on power-driven sites, and factor corridor labor-market concentration into the cost picture.
Prepare site recommendations and approval packages for the executive team and investment committee — comparable economics, risk register, schedule range anchored on external dependencies (interconnection, permitting, easements), and a clear go/no-go.
Coordinate the cross-functional deal team — energy, design, construction, network/fiber, legal, tax, and finance — from first screen through closing and handoff to delivery.
Build durable relationships with utilities, municipalities, and communities that support current projects and future expansion options.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Screening criteria and pipeline tracker is stood up and populated.
Every inbound deal in the funnel dispositioned with a documented rationale.
Diligence checklist (power, permits, geotech, design, sponsor) in use.
After 6 months:
Multiple sites are through full diligence to LOI or PSA/lease negotiation.
At least one credible option is secured per priority market.
Power claims on every advanced deal are independently verified with the Energy Manager.
After 1 year:
Site control achieved supporting the capacity roadmap across both 3P and 1P channels.
No committed site has surprised us on power, geotech, or entitlements.
Pipeline depth gives the business real optionality rather than forced deals.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years in site selection, land acquisition, or infrastructure development for data centers or comparable capital projects, with hands-on negotiation of purchases, leases, incentives, and utility agreements.
Experience on both sides of the market — evaluating third-party developer/colo offerings and running first-party greenfield development — or deep enough on one side to speak the other’s language credibly.
Track record representing a demanding counterparty to utilities, economic development agencies, and local governments, and managing complex multi-party negotiations to close.
Attributes
Outcome driven and hands-on. You walk the sites, read the title work and the interconnection studies, and sit across from the county commission yourself — close enough to the deal to know when something is off before it reaches the approval memo.
Deal judgment over deal volume. You would rather kill nine deals fast and close one great one than nurse a pipeline of maybes; your recommendations come with the risks stated plainly, not sold past.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. Every site is a bundle of unknowns — queue timelines, entitlement politics, seller behavior. You absorb that, keep several paths alive, and still give the business clear dates and decisions.
Skeptical of every claim, respectful of every counterparty. “300MW available” is a hypothesis until the study and the executed agreement say otherwise — and you verify without burning the relationship.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents — or committed to becoming so quickly — and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required):
Hyperscale data center site selection experience, or development experience at a major colo/developer platform (QTS, Vantage, CyrusOne, Aligned or similar).
Working knowledge of interconnection processes and wholesale power markets across multiple US regions.
Experience negotiating economic incentive packages (tax abatements, sales tax exemptions, infrastructure grants).
Familiarity with environmental review, wetlands/floodplain issues, and geotechnical risk on industrial-scale sites.
Fiber/network route planning exposure for large campuses.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will own the technical and commercial vetting that turns a raw deal into a fundable project — the work that separates a defensible capacity commitment from an inflated one. When a partner asks Crux to guarantee an eight- or nine-figure sum, you're the one who tests that number against schedule, equipment composition, and real construction cost before it goes to leadership. Reporting into the Chief Program Manager's organization, you will sit at the interface between Data Center Construction, Energy, MEP, and Finance, making sure every project in the active portfolio is executed against the numbers it was approved on — and flagging it immediately when it isn't.
In this role, you will:
Vet the technical and commercial terms of new capacity deals — schedule, equipment cost, equipment composition — before they're recommended to leadership, right-sizing commitments rather than defaulting to the number a partner asks for.
Track every live data center project in the portfolio against its approved cost and schedule baseline, and own the process for flagging and escalating variance early.
Partner with Data Center Construction, Energy, and MEP Systems teams to translate field-level execution status into Finance-ready program reporting.
Own the interface between build-side execution and the cost and margin model of record — your data is what Finance's models are actually built on.
Run the change-control process for scope, schedule, or cost changes on active projects, with sign-off gates that keep Finance and Development aligned in real time.
Build and maintain the tools that make deal vetting fast and repeatable — this cannot be a one-off analysis redone from scratch on every deal.
Default to AI-agentic workflows for cost/schedule reconciliation and variance tracking, rather than adding headcount to keep up with portfolio growth.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Deal-vetting framework (schedule, equipment cost, composition) is documented and applied to at least one live negotiation.
Portfolio cost/schedule tracking is live for the current active project set.
After 6 months:
Variance escalation process is running with a documented track record of catching at-risk projects before they slip.
Finance's cost and margin model of record is being fed directly from your tracking, not reconstructed separately.
After 1 year:
Deal-vetting and portfolio-tracking functions run as a repeatable system others can execute against, not a one-person effort.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
8+ years in data center construction, capital projects, or infrastructure delivery with direct P&L, cost, or schedule ownership.
Demonstrated experience vetting or negotiating capacity/commercial terms against real technical and cost data, not top-down assumptions.
Comfortable moving fluently across finance, construction, and technology — this is not a single-lane specialist seat.
Attributes
“$900M is the ask” is a hypothesis until the equipment and schedule say otherwise — you test the number before you defend it.
You bring bad news first, unprompted, and own the result — hierarchy doesn't intimidate you and you don't intimidate easily either.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. The portfolio will outgrow whatever process exists today, and you build the next version rather than waiting for one.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents — or committed to becoming so quickly — and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
Background in data center construction, controllership, or capital-projects finance specialized in the build environment.
Experience with direct-to-chip liquid cooling, Level 5/IST commissioning, or other GW-scale data center technical scope.
Neocloud or hyperscaler experience (CoreWeave, Nebius, Nscale, Lambda, Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft) in a program or delivery management capacity.
Formal cost engineering, quantity surveying, or construction finance credential.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
GENERAL INTEREST APPLICATION
Thank you for your interest in Crux AI. We’re always on the look out for great talent who can help us build the world’s best integrated AI Infrastructure company.
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Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will be the owner's construction leader for Crux data center projects — accountable for safety, quality, schedule milestones, forecast accuracy, and cost through GMP and closeout. You will manage general contractors, key trade partners, and owner-furnished equipment on fast-track, high-density builds and fit-outs, including work inside third-party powered shells. Speed to first power and first cluster is the product; your job is to buy schedule intelligently, protect it ruthlessly, and hand operations a building that commissions clean. You will also help set the construction playbook — contracting strategy, prefabrication approach, reporting cadence — that the next projects inherit.
In this role, you will:
Own onsite execution for one or more projects: safety program, quality program, schedule milestones, and weekly project reporting (financial, schedule, quality) to the executive team.
Manage GC and trade partner relationships — buyout, change order negotiation, forecast accuracy, and claims avoidance — and manage tenant-improvement work when building inside partner shells.
Track and drive the external dependencies that actually move data center schedules — utility energization, permitting and inspections, easements, long-lead equipment, and GC mobilization — treating each as a gated milestone with its own owner and remedy, not a line buried in the P6.
Own owner-furnished equipment through the site: procurement coordination, delivery logistics, storage, installation sequencing, and vendor QA/QC for switchgear, generators, cooling plant, and TPU infrastructure.
Run cost discipline the way an owner should: separate elected scope adds (schedule buys, capacity pull-ins) from market-driven cost movement in every forecast, with the decision record to defend both.
Drive schedule levers that reduce field labor in constrained markets — prefabricated skids, power modules, and cooling assemblies — and hold designs accountable for field labor content in constructability reviews.
Lead the construction-to-commissioning-to-operations handoff: commissioning support through Level 5/IST, punch list burn-down, first-time-right turnover packages, and warranty management in live facilities.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
You'll have full command of the project: baseline schedule validated with external dependencies flagged and owned, reporting cadence running, safety and quality programs enforced on site, GC relationship reset where needed.
After 6 months:
You have milestones tracking to forecast with variances explained in elected-versus-market terms; OFE flowing to site on sequence; commissioning plan integrated with ops acceptance criteria; zero recordable-incident trend.
After 1 year:
You will have the first power and first cluster delivered on or ahead of committed dates; closeout and warranty clean
Your project playbook (contracting, prefab, reporting) is adopted as the template for the next builds.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years in construction management of large technical projects, including ground-up greenfield delivery, with direct data center experience strongly preferred; deep working knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems, codes, and fire protection.
Owner-side or owner’s-rep accountability for safety, quality, schedule, GMP accuracy, and change order negotiation on projects of $250M+
Fast-track delivery experience — schedule acceleration decisions, prefabrication strategies, and construction inside or around live/partner facilities.
Attributes
Outcome driven and hands-on leadership. This is a builder’s seat, not a supervisory one. You walk the site, read the contracts, and sit in the schedule sessions — close enough to the work to know when something is off before it shows up in a report.
Commercially sharp without being adversarial. You get to fair outcomes on change orders and claims while keeping the GC leaning in — the next project depends on the same market.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. Design will still be moving, the supply chain will surprise you, and the customer date will not move. You absorb that and convert it into clear near-term direction for the site rather than passing the chaos downstream.
Schedule realism over schedule theater. You forecast as a range anchored on external-dependency risk, give early signal on the sites carrying it, and never average bad news into a healthy-looking portfolio number.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents — or committed to becoming so quickly — and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
High-density AI/HPC build experience (liquid cooling, 100kW+ racks, large UPS/generator plants).
Experience delivering fit-outs inside third-party powered shells or colo partner facilities.
Procore/ACC/Unifier or similar project controls stack fluency.
Commissioning management exposure (Levels 1–5, IST) on mission-critical projects.
Experience at a hyperscaler or neocloud during a multi-site construction ramp.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will own critical facility operations for Crux’s entire fleet — every megawatt of electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure our TPU clusters depend on, across owned campuses and third-party colocation sites. You are accountable for uptime: the maintenance programs, operating procedures, compliance regime, and 24/7 site teams that keep high-density, liquid-cooled environments continuously available for AI workloads that do not tolerate thermal or power excursions. You will build this organization from zero — campus facility managers, chief engineers, and critical facility technicians — and set the operating standards every current and future site runs on. Where a colocation partner operates the building, you own the standard they are held to and the audit program that proves it.
In this role, you will:
Build and lead the fleet-wide facility operations organization — campus facility managers, chief engineers, controls specialists, and 24/7 critical facility technician teams — with staffing templates and coverage models that scale ahead of the capacity ramp.
Own fleet uptime and facility performance: availability of electrical, mechanical, fire/life-safety, and building automation systems, plus efficiency metrics (PUE, WUE, energy cost per MW) reported to the executive team monthly.
Author and enforce the operating standards library — SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, change management, and CMMS-driven preventive/corrective maintenance programs — applied consistently across owned and partner-operated sites.
Define the operating model per site archetype: what we self-perform versus contract (O&M providers, OEM service agreements, colo operator scope), and manage colocation partners to contractual SLAs with a real audit and compliance program behind it.
Own the construction-to-operations transition fleet-wide: ops acceptance criteria in every commissioning plan, participation through Level 5/IST, first-year tuning of high-density liquid cooling plants, and warranty enforcement.
Run fleet incident and problem management for facility events — detection, response, root cause, corrective action, and customer communication.
Own the safety program — LOTO, energized work controls, hazardous energy management, working at height — with zero-compromise standards across employees, vendors, and partner staff.
Feed operational lessons back into design: sit in design reviews, hold engineering accountable for maintainability and operability, and keep the fleet design standard honest with field data.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Fleet operating model is drafted (self-perform/contract boundaries, staffing template, coverage model).
Operating standards framework and CMMS platform is selected.
Ops acceptance criteria is embedded in the first site’s commissioning plan.
Hiring is underway for the first site’s facility leadership.
After 1 year:
First site is operating with 24/7 coverage under the full standards library.
Preventive maintenance program live in CMMS with zero overdue critical PMs.
Incident and change management program is running.
Colo partner SLA and audit program is in force at partner sites.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
15+ years in critical facility or data center operations, including 7+ years leading multi-site facility operations organizations at portfolio scale — you have owned uptime for a fleet.
Deep technical command of electrical (utility through UPS and distribution), mechanical (chilled water, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, heat rejection), fire/life-safety, and building automation/EPMS systems — enough to challenge a chief engineer’s diagnosis on its merits.
Built or scaled a facility operations program through rapid growth: standards libraries, CMMS deployments, commissioning-to-operations handoffs, and vendor/colo O&M management under contractual SLAs.
Attributes
Outcome driven and hands-on leadership. Close enough to the work to be useful. This is a builder’s seat, not a supervisory one. You will personally walk the plants, sit in the root-cause reviews, and read the switchgear maintenance reports — not because there is no team, but because at this stage the person accountable for uptime has to be close enough to the work to change it. You hire people better than you at their craft, then stay close enough to know when something is off before it shows up in a report.
Uptime through discipline, not heroics. You believe availability is produced by procedures, drills, maintenance rigor, and change control — and that a site saved by a heroic 3am intervention is a site whose program failed. You build the system that makes the next incident boring.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. The first sites will energize while the standards library is still being written. You absorb that, translate genuine unknowns into concrete near-term priorities, and never manufacture false certainty about readiness the commissioning data does not support.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents — or committed to becoming so quickly — and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
Hyperscaler facility operations leadership (Meta, Google, AWS, Microsoft) or neocloud fleet operations during a rapid ramp.
Direct-to-chip liquid cooling plant operations at production scale (CDUs, TCS/FWS loops, water chemistry programs).
Experience holding colocation operators to SLA across a leased portfolio, including audit and compliance program design.
Commissioning leadership (Levels 1–5, IST) on mission-critical projects and first-year plant tuning.
Trade certifications (Electrical, HVAC, Controls), professional engineering license, or military/nuclear power background.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
This is a ground-up opportunity to architect the financial backbone of a capital-intensive physical and virtual infrastructure business, grounded in an AI-first model.
In this role, you will:
Reporting to the CFO, lead ERP system construction and scaling with key connections to core business systems.
Develop an AI-forward operational accounting function.
Implement public-company-grade internal controls.
Assist the organization in navigating and planning for complex capex and revenue recognition models.
Drive our inaugural PCAOB audits in preparation for public listing.
Contribute broadly and have full controllership responsibilities.
Partner across Finance, HR, IT, and Legal.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Completed a full assessment and gap analysis of our current state.
Prioritized key projects based on collaboration with the CFO and other business leaders.
Adapted to a fast paced environment.
After 6 months:
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role.
Stood up our enterprise ERP, chart of accounts, fixed asset tracking, and financial tooling to support multi-entity, international operations with automated close cycles.
Established formal financial reporting cadences, flux analysis, and board-ready reporting packages.
After 1 year:
Recruit, mentor, and lead a lean, high-performing accounting team spanning ERP, corporate accounting, technical accounting, accounts payable/receivable, and payroll.
Rapidly accelerate close cycle toward the goal of a public company standard.
Establish and defend accounting policies under US GAAP, specifically addressing. capitalization, complex revenue recognition, and debt & structured financing
Architect an internal control environment that smoothly transitions from private growth into Sarbanes-Oxley compliance post-listing.
Direct external audit partnerships, with a path to convert inaugural private audits directly into PCAOB-compliant audits.
Demonstrate consistent operational excellence and impeccable attention to detail.
Implement innovative approaches to accounting programs and team.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior leadership role (VP, Controller, or Director) within a high-growth tech or capital-intensive hardware/infrastructure business.
Deep domain familiarity with asset accounting (depreciation models, lease accounting, supply-chain commitments, or high-volume hardware procurement).
Direct experience taking a company public (S-1 preparation, PCAOB audits) or operating within a publicly traded technology firm.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands on. Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to write initial journal entries and vendor policies on day one, while maintaining the strategic vision to lead a scaled machine by year two. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
Mindset
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along
Nice to have (preferred, not required):
Hardware, infrastructure or data center industry experience
Experience in both start up and scaled enterprises
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will lead the enterprise-wide financial planning and analysis organization, supporting significant business modeling and decision analysis that will drive what we do, along with an AI-forward budgeting and forecasting process. Capital allocation and resource planning is a key element of success in this extraordinarily capital intensive business.
In this role, you will:
Reporting to the CFO, serve as a key member of the finance team and a trusted advisor to the executive team, driving financial strategy and resource allocation.
Partner across the business to drive a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Assessed and integrateed into our current short and medium term business modeling process, and established a desired architecture and prioritize key projects to drive that modeling going forward.
Established key partnerships with business unit leaders, the executive team, and the broader Finance Leadership Team.
Evaluated the current financial planning tech stack and reporting infrastructure to identify opportunities for standardization and simplification.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment and taken ownership of the upcoming forecasting and reporting cycles, as well as in flight modeling of key decisioning processes.
After 6 months:
Lead the execution of the enterprise-wide planning cycle, including a 12 to 24 month rolling forecast.
Partner with other finance leaders to develop and implement streamlined management and board reporting dashboards, synthesizing key trends and operating performance.
Partner with business unit leaders to build bottom-up operational and capital plans.
Provide the analytical foundation for the prioritization and allocation of capital in support of company priorities.
Architect the FP&A tech stack, using an AI-forward model and leveraging planning platforms and business intelligence tools to improve forecasting accuracy.
After 1 year:
Recruit, mentor, and lead a diverse, high-performing FP&A team, driving the organization to informed decision-making.
Drive the long-range strategic planning process.
Deliver clear, actionable insights leveraging advanced analytics that consistently drive better resource allocation and long-term value creation.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
15+ years of progressive finance experience, with a minimum of 7 years in FP&A leadership roles managing high-performing teams.
Experience within capital-intensive and/or fast-growing technology companies.
Attributes
Exceptional analytical, project management, and financial modeling abilities. Experience supporting Board of Directors and investor communications.
You know how to ask the right questions and can easily shift between the details and more high level modeling. You operate as a trusted advisor to the business, not as a budget process organizer.
Mindset
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Reporting directly to CEO Ben Treynor Sloss, you will define and lead Crux AI’s commercial strategy, determining how the company prices, allocates, and monetizes a finite and extraordinarily valuable supply of AI infrastructure. You will structure and negotiate the company’s largest multi-year customer agreements, balancing price, capacity commitments, delivery schedules, counterparty quality, and long-term economics. You will build a rigorous view of supply and demand to inform pricing, forecasting, and how much capacity to sell forward versus retain for shorter-duration opportunities.
You will build Crux AI’s commercial operating system from the ground up, connecting customer commitments to infrastructure development, hardware deployment, and capital allocation while developing a deliberate portfolio of scaled, investment-grade customers. Over time, you will build a lean, high-caliber commercial team across account management, marketing, and solution architecture, using AI and automation to drive sharper insights and more efficient execution.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
You have developed a clear understanding of the company’s capacity roadmap, infrastructure economics, TPU offering, customer landscape, and competitive alternatives. You have established strong relationships with Ben Sloss and the leadership team and can engage credibly across technical, financial, and customer stakeholders.
You have established the core commercial framework, including customer segmentation, demand intelligence, pricing, capacity allocation, and criteria for evaluating major opportunities.
You are operating as a principal in the company’s most important commercial negotiations, not simply advising from the sidelines.
You have developed a clear framework for determining how much capacity to contract in advance, retain closer to delivery, or leave exposed to market pricing.
After 6 months:
You have established a disciplined commercial operating system connecting customer demand to infrastructure supply, with a data-driven view of demand, pricing, competitive capacity, and forward economics.
You have personally advanced and negotiated key strategic customer agreements while establishing repeatable frameworks for pricing, contracting, counterparty evaluation, and capacity allocation.
You have created a clear framework for determining how much capacity to contract in advance, retain closer to delivery, or leave exposed to market pricing.
After 1 year:
The company is approaching its first product launch with a high-quality portfolio of contracted customers and a commercial model positioned to support its next phase of growth.
You have helped secure large-scale capacity commitments, representing tens of billions of dollars in potential annual contracted value.
This business is recognized by the world’s most sophisticated AI buyers as a credible, institutional-quality infrastructure provider with the ability to deliver capacity reliably and at scale.
You have built the foundation of a lean, analytically rigorous commercial organization capable of scaling alongside the business.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
AI infrastructure expertise. Experience across AI infrastructure, hyperscale cloud, accelerated compute, data centers, or adjacent markets, with the technical credibility to engage sophisticated infrastructure buyers.
Complex commercial dealmaking. Personally structured and negotiated $1B+ strategic agreements, with deep experience across pricing, contract structure, demand forecasting, and capacity portfolio management.
Frontier customer exposure. Direct experience with frontier AI labs, hyperscalers, or similarly sophisticated technology customers and a strong understanding of how they evaluate large-scale infrastructure commitments.
Attributes
Hands-on builder. A player-coach who can personally lead critical negotiations while building TPU Co’s GTM organization, processes, and capabilities from a blank sheet.
Exceptional commercial judgment. Able to develop an independent view on pricing, customer economics, supply/demand, and when and how capacity should be sold.
Technical credibility. Fluent in AI infrastructure and compute economics to earn credibility with technical buyers while translating complexity into commercial decisions.
Mindset
AI-native practitioner. Actively uses AI tools and agents to improve research, analysis, customer intelligence, and personal productivity.
High tolerance for ambiguity. Makes clear decisions despite rapidly changing technology, customer demand, pricing, and incomplete information.
First-principles thinker. Builds the commercial model appropriate for this company rather than importing conventional SaaS or enterprise-sales playbooks.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
Exposure to power, energy, data center development, project finance, or capital markets, with an understanding of how infrastructure economics influence commercial decisions.
Top-tier strategy consulting experience, particularly advising technology, cloud, infrastructure, energy, or capital-intensive businesses on commercial strategy, pricing, market structure, or large-scale transactions.
Experience navigating multiple technology generations or hardware platforms and their implications for pricing, customer commitments, and technology risk.
Exposure to marketing, account management, or solution architecture; traditional breadth across every CRO function is additive, but less important than commercial judgment, analytical horsepower, and complex-deal execution.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
What you’ll do
You own how Crux prices its products, how it understands its own unit economics and profitability, and how it reads the market it competes in. Crux will sign some of the largest compute contracts in the industry, and the pricing of the first handful will set the reference point for everything that follows. Because those contracts run for years, every analysis in this role is forward-looking. The question is never only what an XPU-hour costs and earns today, but how our offerings, costs, and competitive position will evolve across generation transitions, power markets, and customer demand over the life of a contract.
This is a doer’s seat. We want someone who rolls up their sleeves and builds the skill files, the models, the reference price tables, and the deal tools themselves rather than directing others to. You will:
Build our own intelligence on actual market prices for XPUs. Go beyond list prices and analyst reports to assemble a living view of what accelerated compute actually clears at by generation, term, and region, and construct reference prices for Crux’s product offerings across different terms, prepayment structures, customer credit ratings, and SLA tiers
Shape our product pricing strategy based on that market intelligence, industry trends, competitive analysis, and demand/supply forecasting, including the right mix of offerings (spot vs. long-term) at the right price and how pricing should move across generation transitions
Run deal operations end to end, from constructing the term sheet through negotiation support to contracting, so that pricing, structure, and approvals move at the pace our customers expect
Conduct customer analysis (segments, workload classes, willingness to pay, and value created per use case) to inform our value-based pricing and how we allocate capacity
Build the fully loaded cost and margin model of record and the TCO analysis that Sales takes to customers, grounded in price/performance benchmarks across accelerators and in the value Crux’s products create for specific customer use cases
You will lead deal economics on anchor contracts alongside the COO and CFO, and partner across Sales, Finance, Demand/Supply Planning, Business Operations, and Strategic Supply / Partnerships.
Signals of success include
After 90 days in this role, you will:
Complete a first-cut fully loaded cost and margin model per XPU-hour and per MW, with cost, price, and resulting margin projected over a multi-year horizon, agreed with the CFO as the basis of record
Deliver a competitive pricing and capacity landscape across neoclouds, hyperscalers, and leading AI infrastructure providers, built on your own market price intelligence rather than third-party reports alone
Publish a first version of Crux’s reference price tables by term, prepayment, credit rating, and SLA, along with the pricing architecture behind them: rate structures by generation and commitment term, take-or-pay mechanics, pass-through costs, and the approval framework for contracts above defined thresholds, anchored on deal-level profitability
Stand up a working deal operations process: a standard term sheet, a path from term sheet to signed contract, and clear ownership at each step
Adapt to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function
After 6 months in, you will:
Have priced Crux’s first set of anchor customer contracts using your framework and run them from term sheet through contracting, with multi-year deal economics, margin, and scenario analysis the executive team relied on
Have a customer-ready TCO and price/performance narrative versus alternative accelerated compute in active use by Sales, with value-based pricing tied to priority customer use cases
Refresh the market price intelligence and the cost and margin model on a defined cadence, reconciled against actuals, observed deal prices, and updated projections
Deliver a customer segment and workload attractiveness assessment that informs both the Demand/Supply Planning plan of record and how we allocate capacity across customers
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role. You have built, in a hands-on way, skill files, models, and AI-enabled tools for pricing analysis, market intelligence, and scenario modeling that the team uses every day
After 1 year in, you will:
Run pricing and deal operations as a repeatable function with an automated deal pricing tool with what-if scenario capabilities, a rate card and reference price tables, approval thresholds, and a lightweight deal review process
Have your unit economics, profitability, market intelligence, and customer work serving as a standing input to the executive team and board to inform the company’s strategic direction
Have modeled and navigated at least one XPU generation transition in pricing and contract structure, with a forward view of how the next transition will affect contract pricing and economics
Experiences, attributes and mindset that indicate you are a good match. You have:
8–10+ years in pricing, commercial strategy, or infrastructure economics, including direct responsibility for pricing long-duration, high-value capacity contracts (cloud or accelerated compute, colocation, wholesale telecom, or power) and experience with performance-based or value-based pricing
Built a unit-economics or deal profitability model a company actually ran on: used by finance, sales, and executives to make binding decisions, and reconciled against real operating data
Run deals from term sheet to signed contract, and are comfortable with the mechanics of commercial terms: prepayment, credit, SLAs, take-or-pay, and pass-through costs
You are a doer. Outcome driven and hands on, close enough to the work to be useful. You write the skill files and build the models yourself. This is a builder’s seat, not a supervisory one
You are credible with finance, sales, and engineering at the same time. You can hold a margin argument with a CFO, a competitive argument with a CRO, and a cost-stack argument with an infrastructure engineer
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along
You think like an owner of the asset over its life, not the deal in front of you. You model years forward, and care about the long-run economics of the fleet more than any single win
You build your own tools. You use AI and automation as a default in everyday work, and you’d rather build a model or agent that runs the analysis continuously than produce a one-off deck
Nice to have [Preferred, not required]:
Direct experience with accelerated compute economics, such as GPU or TPU capacity pricing, cluster TCO, or AI infrastructure financing
Top-tier strategy consulting followed by an operating role in cloud, data centers, or energy
Experience preparing pricing or market materials for board or sponsor audiences
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You own the technology, data, and process backbone of the People function as the company scales from startup to enterprise.
In this role, you will:
Architect and build the core HR stack — HRIS as the system of record, ATS and recruiting operations, and the platforms supporting compensation cycles, benefits enrollment, and equity administration — building integrations and workflows that hold up under rapid headcount growth.
Beyond systems, you serve as the operational engine behind annual comp planning, open enrollment, and multi-jurisdiction compliance, while delivering the people analytics that leadership uses to make headcount, pay, and workforce decisions.
Contribute broadly and have HRBP and Generalist responsibilities.
Partner across Recruiting, Total Rewards, Finance, IT, and Legal.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Completed a full assessment and gaps analysis of our current state.
Prioritized the key projects based on OKRs and People Team priorities.
Ensured our ATS, Ashby, is fully integrated into the candidate and hiring manager workflows of recruiting.
Fully leveraged our HRIS, deel, to run core people team processes, as well as make and implement changes based on our needs and feedback.
Revamped our employee onboarding process and experience.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
After 6 months:
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role. You built, in a hands-on way, our core processes, models and People Team AI agents.
Developed our philosophy and program manage our performance & development process and prioritize key elements of our employee experience.
Reviewed our current benefits offering, benchmark those programs and select new offering based on our employees and competitive landscape.
Refined our compensation and total reward philosophy and corresponding program and administration.
After 1 year:
Ensure we are compliant and audit ready.
Contribute to any operational workstreams in partnership with finance and legal.
Demonstrated consistent operational excellence and having impeccable attention to detail.
Implemented innovative approaches to the People Ops processes, programs and team.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
8+ years experience in HR and Talent operations and systems at a leading, talent-dense, operationally rigorous company.
Implemented a modern HR tech stack and operated in a lean, AI-enabled environment.
Hands-on experience leading high visibility projects and programs in compensation, benefits, performance, L&D, recruiting and employee engagement.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands on. Close enough to the work to be useful. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
Mindset
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
Hardware, infrastructure or data center industry experience.
Experience in both start up and scaled enterprises.
HRBP, HR Generalist, or Employee Relations experience.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
In this role, you will:
You will architect the systems that ensure reliable funding for our rapid capital deployments on a day-to-day basis while cultivating relationships with our providers of capital, across debt and equity markets, in support of ongoing borrowing and equity offerings. Reporting to the CFO, you will build an automated, AI-forward cash operations engine to streamline daily disbursements, account reconciliations, and debt-facility payment waterfalls. You will maintain daily solvency and liquidity governance, running dynamic short-term cash flow models, tracking bank covenants, and executing interest rate, currency, and power hedging programs. In addition, you will serve as the primary external bridge to institutional debt and equity investors and sell-side analysts helping to craft the company’s capital narrative. You’ll contribute broadly and partner across Finance, Legal, and the executive team.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Establish real-time cash visibility and a short and longer term plan for a detailed 13 week cash forecast
Review all existing banking relationships, account signatories, and debt agreements. Develop plans for debt compliance and day-to-day cash flow management
Meet with key members of the team to align on the core equity thesis and key operating metrics
Create a prioritized plan for key treasury and investor relations workflows
Adapt to a fast paced environment
After 6 months:
Demonstrate an AI-forward and automated approach to this role. Implement an automated treasury management system and a highly automated workflow for managing key treasury operations functions
Partner with the CFO to drive targeted strategy for managing investors and debtholders, including via non-deal roadshows and private investor meetings, as appropriate
After 1 year:
Recruit, mentor, and lead a lean, high-performing team including treasury management and investor relations professionals
Demonstrate consistent operational excellence and impeccable attention to detail
Implement innovative approaches to accounting programs and team
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
8–12+ years of progressive treasury, investor relations and/or corporate finance experience, including senior treasury and investor relations roles at a high-growth, pre-IPO, or publicly traded capital-intensive infrastructure company
Practical experience administering structured debt, asset-based lending, or equipment financing facilities, including borrowing bases and waterfall accounts
Demonstrated track record building high-precision 13-week cash models tied directly to heavy hardware procurement and supply-chain disbursements
Excellent communication skills and ability to relay complex operating concepts to debt and equity investors
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands on. Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to dig into cash models on day one, while maintaining the strategic vision to develop an investor equity story. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one
Mindset
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), CFA, or CPA
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or related quantitative field
Experience in both start up and scaled enterprises
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
In this role, you will:
Design, build, and lead our tax department across tax strategy, tax operations, and transaction structuring, grounded in an AI-first model and designed to scale quickly to support a high growth organization. Reporting to the CFO, you will partner with our sponsor and operational teams to manage partnership income tax reporting. You will deploy modern tax automation and AI-driven workflows to drive planning and reporting for income, transaction, and property tax. You will lead complex projects to drive tax savings and have significant involvement in larger transaction planning. You’ll contribute broadly and partner across Finance, HR, IT, and Legal.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Complete a full assessment and gaps analysis of our current state. Prioritize key projects based on collaboration with the CFO and other business leaders
Adapt to a fast paced environment
After 6 months:
Demonstrate an AI-forward and automated approach to this role.
Use appropriate strategies to assist the organization in diverse tax activities, which could include such items as:
Modeling income tax allocations and debt service tax shields to support our sponsors
Tax planning projects including cost segregation studies and repair vs. capitalization standards
Negotiation of state and local tax incentives
Implementation and maintenance of tax calculation engines (e.g., Vertex, Avalara, or OneSource) integrated with our ERP, procurement, and billing systems
Building a SOX-compliant tax environment and audit-defensible diligence repository
After 1 year:
Recruit, mentor, and lead a lean, high-performing tax team spanning transaction planning, transaction tax, property tax, income tax, and tax accounting
Demonstrate consistent operational excellence and impeccable attention to detail
Implement innovative approaches to accounting programs and team
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years of progressive progressive corporate and transaction tax experience, combining a Big 4 accounting foundation with in-house leadership at an infrastructure, cloud, data center, telecom, or energy platform
Proven track record working with enterprise tax engines and modern ERP integrations to automate manual tax compliance workflows
Strong experience operating within private-equity ownership structures (flow-through entities, blocker corporations, leveraged balance sheets) and managing M&A tax diligence
Direct experience with ASC 740 tax provisions, PCAOB-grade financial statement audits, and SOX internal control frameworks
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands on. Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to review cash tax models and negotiate tax incentives on day one, while maintaining the strategic vision to lead a scaled machine by year two. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one
Mindset
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Active CPA license or J.D. / LL.M. in Taxation
Experience in both start up and scaled enterprises
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will own the math that keeps Crux from buying chips it has nowhere to put. Crux's compute pipeline runs on TPU capacity supplied through our partnership with Google — chip cost dramatically outweighs data center power cost, so idle chip inventory with no site to plug into is the failure mode this role exists to prevent. You will evaluate Crux's full portfolio of 40-plus live project possibilities as a single system, not deal by deal, and produce the recommendation that goes to the Chief Program Manager's organization on which projects to pursue, sequence, or pass on. This is capacity math with real financial consequences, at GW scale.
In this role, you will:
Own the ongoing match between projected TPU/chip supply and Crux's data center capacity pipeline — the core input to every build-or-lease, land, and lease-capacity decision.
Evaluate the active portfolio of 40+ live project possibilities as a weighted, categorized system, and produce the recommendation set that goes to leadership.
Maintain the master interdependency tracker linking chip supply, site readiness, and capacity commitments — surfacing resource conflicts and sequencing risk before they become delays.
Build and own the capacity plan of record, and drive cross-functional accountability across Finance, Development, and Operations to keep it current.
Partner directly with Google's supply-side teams to translate chip delivery timelines into actionable Crux capacity decisions.
Run scenario analysis on supply delays, demand shifts, and site delays, with utilization and financial impact quantified for each.
Default to AI-agentic workflows for portfolio modeling and scenario analysis — this is not a spreadsheet-reconciliation role.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
First integrated view of the 40+ project portfolio, weighted and categorized, delivered to leadership.
Chip-supply-to-capacity matching model is stood up against current Google delivery projections.
After 6 months:
Master interdependency tracker is live and in active use for sequencing and prioritization decisions.
Recommendation set has been used to pass or advance at least one full portfolio review cycle.
After 1 year:
Portfolio evaluation function is running as a repeatable, scenario-driven system — the standing input to Crux's capacity plan of record, not a one-time analysis.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
8+ years in technical program management, capacity planning, or supply/demand planning for cloud, hardware, or other capital-intensive infrastructure.
Direct experience evaluating a multi-project portfolio as a system — weighing, sequencing, and recommending across dozens of live opportunities, not analyzing deals one at a time.
Quantitative fluency with capacity, cost, and schedule modeling at a level you can defend the numbers yourself, not hand off to an analyst.
Attributes
Close enough to the work to be useful — you'd rather build the model yourself than manage someone else's spreadsheet, and you stay close enough to know when something is off before it shows up in a leadership deck.
You recommend a reasonable deal, not just a perfect one — a portfolio of only risk-free projects isn't a real strategy.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. The portfolio changes weekly, and your model has to keep up without a formal spec telling you how.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
Experience with GPU or TPU capacity planning specifically — cluster deployments, chip allocation, or accelerated-compute fleet management.
Familiarity with data center development timelines, power procurement, and site readiness milestones.
Background in operations research, portfolio optimization, or capital allocation modeling.
Neocloud or hyperscaler experience (CoreWeave, Nebius, Nscale, Lambda, Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft) in a capacity or supply-planning seat.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will join the end-to-end Pipeline Analytics team as a senior individual contributor. The team supports cross-functional strategic initiatives across the offices of the CFO, CDO, CEO and COO with one shared view of every project's delivery, cost and schedule.
In this role you will own the end-to-end planning and cost/schedule models behind AI infrastructure programs, connecting demand, supply, delivery schedules and dollars. A core focus is pre-assessing sites as they enter the pipeline: verifying schedules, testing cost and judging overall fit with the pipeline. You will turn unclear inputs into scenarios a leadership team can decide on. These inputs include capacity timelines, developer schedules and site status, vendor and equipment lead times, capital budgets and contract terms. Lease and deal execution sit with a separate team.
AI tools will be your primary way of working, letting you build, test and update models and reports much faster than traditional spreadsheet or coding methods allow. Well-structured data, data integrity and transparency in an AI-enabled environment are central to the job. Your judgment on what the numbers mean matters more than your ability to write the code yourself.
In this role, you will:
Pre-assess sites entering the pipeline for schedule, cost and overall fit with Crux's pipeline and capacity needs.
Verify developer and vendor schedules against the evidence, including permits, utility dates, equipment lead times and construction sequencing. Flag gaps before a site advances.
Benchmark site costs and turn schedule risk into cost exposure.
Review project data rooms and cost reports for cost, schedule and delivery risk.
Give clear advance, hold or decline recommendations. Hand qualified sites to the team that owns lease and deal execution.
Build and own end-to-end models linking demand, capacity, supply, delivery schedules and cost for AI infrastructure programs.
Run scenario and what-if analysis, such as P25/P50/P80 ranges, capacity and delivery timing, and lead-time shocks. Turn the results into clear trade-off recommendations.
Build portfolio metrics for site and infrastructure development across existing, greenfield and brownfield sites. Report progress against objectives and use financial metrics to support portfolio decisions.
Design and maintain a clear, consistent data structure for pipeline, project, cost and schedule data, with shared definitions, fields and naming across teams.
Own data integrity by validating inputs, reconciling sources, catching errors and gaps early, and keeping one source of truth for plan-of-record figures.
Make every number traceable to its source, assumptions and revision history, with version control and change logs.
Keep status, assumptions and changes visible to the offices of the CFO, CDO, CEO and COO, so all four work from the same numbers.
Track delivery schedules and milestones, and flag risks to on-time capacity early, such as equipment shortages, lead-time changes and permitting or power delays.
Run planning reviews and escalations with engineering, construction, operations and supplier teams.
Manage cost and schedule together: budgets, capital spend tracking, cost-driver analysis, forecast vs. actual, and schedule-driven cost exposure.
Model supplier and contract economics, including payment terms, long-term agreements, should-cost and total cost of ownership. Share the analysis with the teams that negotiate and execute agreements.
Use AI tools as the default way to build models, automate reporting, pull data from documents and produce executive-ready outputs.
Set and share best practices for using AI tools in planning across the team.
Turn complex models into short, clear narratives and recommendations for the CFO, CDO, COO and CEO, as well as investors and partners.
Act as the analytical link across the offices of the CFO, CDO, CEO and COO. Bring their priorities into one plan and prepare decision packages for strategic initiatives.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Program cadence and escalation gates are stood up and running across at least one active workstream.
First integrated Finance/Development/Operations status view is in use, replacing ad hoc updates.
After 6 months:
Commitments-to-closure tracking is live across the full active portfolio, with zero silently-dropped action items.
Finance is running its models off your reconciled data, not parallel spreadsheets.
After 1 year:
The Finance↔Ops translation layer runs as a repeatable system, not a personal effort — positioned to scale as Crux's build pipeline grows.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, supply chain, business or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8–10 years of experience in program management, planning or project controls, leading cross-functional work without direct authority.
Deep experience building demand, supply, capacity or delivery models with scenario and what-if analysis.
A proven record of structuring complex data and keeping it accurate, reconciled and traceable, with clear version control and audit trails.
Proven cost and schedule management, including schedule verification, on large capital programs: budgets, forecasts, capital spend tracking, earned value or similar controls.
Strong financial skills: cost-driver analysis, cash flow and payment-term modeling, NPV/ROI business cases, and translating schedule changes into cost impact.
Daily, hands-on use of AI tools for analysis, modeling, document review and reporting.
Experience presenting recommendations to C-level executives.
Attributes
You build the system that makes the next status meeting boring, through discipline, not heroics - you don't paper over a conflict between Finance and Ops, you surface it and help resolve it.
You are the honest broker between functions - you hold Finance and Ops to the same numbers and say so when they don't match.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. You design structure where none exists yet, rather than waiting for one to arrive.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents - or committed to becoming so quickly - and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
Data center, hyperscale or other mission-critical infrastructure experience, especially AI/GPU capacity.
Background that spans delivery, operations and commercial or finance roles, such as project controls, FP&A, category management or sourcing.
Experience assessing data center sites or projects for schedule, cost and delivery risk, including verifying developer schedules against evidence.
Understanding of data center technical requirements such as power density and redundancy (N+1, 2N), enough to model their cost and schedule effects.
Experience with supplier agreements, long-lead equipment procurement and should-cost models.
Experience reviewing data rooms, cost reports or independent cost and schedule assessments for investors or lenders.
A track record of using AI tools to replace manual reporting or spreadsheet work.
Experience leading, mentoring or informally managing analysts or program managers.
Certifications such as PMP, AACE (CCP/PSP) or APICS (CPIM/CSCP) are a plus.
SQL or Python are useful but not required. Fluency with AI tools, and the ability to use them to drive change while scaling an organization, matter more.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
The People Team at Crux AI is building the kind of company people want to help build - from the ground up. We move fast, cut through noise, and care deeply about clarity, fairness, growth, and getting the details right. Our scope spans recruiting, rewards, learning & development, employee relations, communications, and culture — all the things that shape a great place to work, built for a company scaling from a standing start to a category-defining AI infrastructure platform.
Reporting to our CHRO, we're looking for a seasoned Executive Recruiter who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments and has a proven track record of attracting world-class talent to technology companies. You will be instrumental in building Crux AI's leadership team as we scale from a newly formed joint venture to a market-leading AI compute infrastructure provider.
In this role, you will:
Lead end-to-end executive search processes for C-suite, VP, and senior director-level positions across all functions
Leverage extensive candidate networks within the cloud computing, AI infrastructure, semiconductor, and hyperscale data center industries
Develop and execute comprehensive search strategies for critical leadership roles including Engineering, SRE/Infrastructure, Data Center Development & Operations
Own leadership hiring for Crux AI's data center development build-out — sourcing and closing the operators, builders, and energy leads who will stand up and run our facilities
Partner closely with our CEO, board members, and existing executives to define role requirements and ideal candidate profiles
Proactively build relationships with top-tier executive talent through industry events, conferences, and strategic networking
Manage sophisticated interview processes involving multiple stakeholders and assessment methodologies
Ensure exceptional candidate experience that reflects Crux AI's values and competitive positioning in the market
Develop compelling value propositions for executive candidates weighing a newly formed venture against more established alternatives
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Fully ramped on Crux AI's mandate, org structure, and the Blackstone/Google partnership narrative — can represent it credibly and independently to skeptical senior candidates
Owns an active slate of 3–5 executive searches, each with a defined search strategy and aligned stakeholders
Has built working relationships with the CEO and key executives around role requirements and candidate profiles
After 6 months:
Has closed at least 2–4 executive hires at VP-level or above
Established a repeatable process for high-priority leadership searches — sourcing channel maps, assessment loop templates, stakeholder cadences
Built a warm, mapped pipeline of passive executive candidates across target functions and industries
After 1 year:
Has meaningfully shaped Crux AI's leadership bench, with multiple C-suite/VP hires directly attributable to their search leadership
Recognized internally as the go-to owner for confidential and executive-level searches
Has established Crux AI's reputation in the market as a credible, competitive destination for top-tier executive talent
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years of executive search experience, with at least 4 years focused on technology sector roles
Proven track record of successfully placing C-suite and VP-level executives at high-growth technology companies
Deep understanding of semiconductor, GPU/TPU, AI/ML, or related hardware/software infrastructure markets
Experience recruiting data center development, construction, operations, or energy leadership — ideally including time spent in-house at a hyperscaler (Google, AWS, Microsoft, Meta) or a comparable large-scale data center operator
Experience working with venture-backed or institutionally-backed startups and an understanding of startup dynamics
Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred
Attributes
Extensive network of relationships with executive talent across cloud computing, AI infrastructure, semiconductor, and hyperscale data center industries
Executive presence and credibility with founders, board members, and sitting C-suite executives
Sharp judgment under ambiguity — comfortable building process and precedent where none exists yet
Strong written and verbal communication; able to represent a newly formed company credibly to established senior talent
Mindset
Thrives in fast-paced, high-growth, still-being-built environments
Ownership mentality — treats each search as their own mandate, not a queue of reqs to clear
Genuine enthusiasm for the AI infrastructure space and Crux AI's mission
Comfortable holding confidentiality and operating with incomplete information while search work continues
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Direct exposure to hyperscaler data center build-out — engineering, construction, or operations — beyond recruiting for it
Familiarity with cloud computing, AI infrastructure, data center, or related technologies
Previous experience at top-tier executive search firms (Russell Reynolds, Korn Ferry, Heidrick & Struggles, etc.)
In-house recruiting experience at high-growth technology companies
Experience recruiting for companies that have scaled through rapid growth phases, from formation through market leadership
Established relationships with technology executives, particularly in Silicon Valley and other major tech hubs
Track record of recruiting diverse executive talent and building inclusive leadership teams
This role is based out of our Palo Alto office on a hybrid schedule — 4 days per week onsite. We've found that building a leadership bench this fast benefits from being in the room together with founders, executives, and the broader People Team.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
The FP&A Analyst reports to the VP, Financial Planning & Analysis and supports the Finance team in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis across the organization. This role offers a unique opportunity to learn how a capital-intensive, fast-growing infrastructure business operates and to build core FP&A skills from the ground floor of a newly formed company. You will support recurring financial processes, build and maintain models, and contribute to reporting that informs executive decision-making. This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their FP&A career who wants broad exposure across corporate finance - including the capital planning that sits at the center of this business.
In this role, you will:
Forecasting & Budgeting Support - Support the monthly forecasting and annual budgeting processes by gathering inputs from business partners, maintaining templates, and ensuring timely and accurate submissions
Financial Analysis - Perform variance analysis comparing actuals to budget and forecast; identify key drivers and prepare clear explanations for leadership review
Reporting - Assist in preparing monthly financial reports, executive summaries, and ad-hoc analyses; ensure data accuracy and consistency across deliverables
Data Management - Help build and maintain the company's planning platform from the ground up, including data entry, validation, and troubleshooting; support data integrity and process improvements as the FP&A tech stack is stood up
Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work with teams across the organization — including data center operations, energy, and engineering — to gather information, reconcile data, and ensure Finance assumptions reflect the latest business inputs
Process Improvement - Identify opportunities to streamline recurring tasks and improve reporting efficiency; contribute to building scalable FP&A processes as the function is established
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Ramped on Crux's business model, capital structure, and current forecasting/reporting cadence
Taken ownership of at least one recurring reporting or reconciliation process
Established working relationships with core cross-functional partners in Finance and the broader business
After 6 months:
Running point on variance analysis and reporting packages with minimal oversight
Contributing meaningfully to the build-out of the planning platform and supporting infrastructure
Trusted to independently gather and validate inputs from business partners for the forecast cycle
After 1 year:
A go-to resource on the FP&A team for a defined area of the business
Actively identifying and driving process improvements rather than just executing them
Positioned to take on greater scope as the Finance organization scales alongside the business
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
2–5 years of experience in FP&A, accounting, investment banking, consulting, or a related analytical role
Strong proficiency in Excel, including financial modeling, formulas, and data manipulation; experience with pivot tables, lookups, and building clean, auditable workbooks
Bonus points for experience with financial planning tools (e.g., Anaplan, Adaptive, Hyperion), BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), or ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle)
Bonus points for industry experience in technology, data center infrastructure, cloud, or energy
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a similar field
Attributes
Analytically curious, with the ability to work with large datasets, identify trends, and translate numbers into meaningful insights
High accuracy and thoroughness in work product; takes pride in getting the details right
Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance audiences
Collaborative approach with a willingness to pitch in where needed; receptive to feedback and eager to learn
Mindset
You want to build, not just maintain — this is a ground-floor seat in a newly formed company, and the systems and processes you're supporting are still being defined
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity and are comfortable operating without a fully mature playbook
You're growth-oriented and want to develop broad FP&A expertise inside a fast-paced, capital-intensive business
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Experience with financial planning tools (e.g., Anaplan, Adaptive, Hyperion) or BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
Exposure to ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle)
Industry experience in technology, data center infrastructure, cloud, or energy
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will be the lead lawyer for how Crux secures, builds, and powers its data center fleet.
Reporting to our General Counsel, you will own the legal side of every site from first LOI through energization and Level 5 commissioning: land and powered-shell acquisitions, build-to-suit and colocation leases, EPC and construction contracts, long-lead equipment procurement, utility interconnection and power supply agreements, and the project-level documents that lenders and partners rely on. You will start as a hands-on practitioner and build a team of 1 to 3 counsel as deal volume grows.
This is a builder's seat: you will set the forms, playbooks, and positions of record that let Crux sign quickly without signing badly, from our first phase of capacity through a multi-gigawatt fleet.
In this role, you will:
Lead the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of site transactions across first-party (1P) greenfield and third-party (3P) powered shells, build-to-suit (BTS), and colocation: purchase and sale agreements, ground and synthetic leases, options, easements, and development agreements.
Own the construction and procurement contract stack: EPC, design-build, and GMP agreements, long-lead equipment purchase agreements (switchgear, transformers, generators, chillers, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling), and the warranty, delay, and liquidated damages terms that protect Stage 1 and Stage 2 schedules.
Negotiate power with our Energy team: utility service and interconnection agreements, large-load and electric service agreements, PPAs and other energy supply arrangements, and on-site or behind-the-meter generation.
Run diligence the build can trust: title, survey, zoning and entitlements, environmental (Phase I/II), permitting, and utility capacity commitments, with findings translated into go, fix, or walk recommendations.
Build and maintain Crux's data center playbooks: standard forms, fallback positions, and approval thresholds, so Site Selection & Development, Capacity Delivery, and Facility Operations can move without waiting on Legal for routine calls.
Partner with Corporate & Corporate Finance Legal and Capital Markets on project-level financings and lender diligence, with Tax on property tax, sales and use tax, and incentive or abatement agreements, and with Finance on the site inputs to the cost and margin model of record.
Select and manage outside counsel to a budget, keeping strategy, judgment, and institutional knowledge in house.
Hire and lead a team of 1 to 3 counsel as volume grows. Hire people better than you at their craft, then stay close enough to know when something is off before it shows up in a report.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Gained a complete understanding of the capacity plan of record, the active site pipeline, and the Blackstone and Google partnership terms that shape site-level commitments, and published a written data center legal plan with priorities and risk positions.
Put the first standard forms in place (LOI, NDA, site access, and a construction contract baseline) with clear approval thresholds.
Established working cadences with Site Selection & Development, Capacity Delivery, Energy, and Finance, and built an outside counsel bench by jurisdiction.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
After 6 months:
Closed the site, construction, and power agreements for our first phase of capacity on the committed timeline, with no legal surprises between signing and energization.
Delivered a data center contract playbook the business uses to self-serve routine terms and escalate only the real decisions.
Defined the hiring plan for your team and made your first hire(s) as deal volume requires.
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role: you have built, in a hands-on way, AI-enabled tools for diligence review, contract comparison against our playbook, or obligation tracking that the team uses every day.
After 1 year:
Running a repeatable legal process across a multi-site pipeline, where each new site closes faster than the last and on terms at or better than our playbook.
Built a small, high-performing data center legal team, with outside counsel spend that is predictable and falling per site.
Made Legal a recognized accelerator of the build program rather than the last stop before signature.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years of legal experience in real estate, construction, energy, or infrastructure transactions, combining top-tier law firm training with significant in-house experience.
Direct responsibility for closing large-scale development deals end to end: land or powered-shell acquisitions, BTS or colocation leases, EPC or design-build contracts, and utility or power agreements for data center, energy, or heavy industrial projects.
Experience managing outside counsel across jurisdictions and leading or mentoring other lawyers.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands-on. You draft and turn documents yourself, you can go deep on an LD cap or an interconnection milestone with the deal team, and then explain the tradeoff in two sentences to the executive team. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
You speak the language of construction and power. You understand schedules, critical path, long-lead equipment, and utility processes well enough to know which contract terms actually move risk.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You are skeptical by default. \"300MW available\" is a hypothesis until it is in a signed agreement with a date and a remedy. You build the system that makes the next closing boring.
You operate as an owner, not a supervisor.
You are AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
In-house data center legal experience at a hyperscaler (Google, AWS, Microsoft, Meta), a neocloud (CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, Nebius), or a data center developer or operator.
Experience with utility regulatory processes, large-load tariffs, or ISO/RTO interconnection.
Experience with project finance, construction lending, or joint venture structures at the asset level.
Bar admission in California or in a key data center market, or eligibility to register as in-house counsel.
Experience in both startup and scaled enterprise environments, including building a legal function from its first hires.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will own the Crux network end to end: the fabric inside every TPU cluster and data center, the interconnect and backbone between sites, the connectivity that brings customers onto the platform, and the software that designs, deploys, and operates all of it. Reporting to our CTO, you will build the networking organization from its first leaders, set the architecture of record, and make the network one of the reasons the largest AI workloads choose Crux. The network has to be designed alongside power, facilities, and TPU systems, not after them, so you will be in the room for every build decision from site selection onward.
In this role, you will:
Define the network architecture of record across cluster fabric, data center network, data center interconnect, backbone, and customer connectivity (dedicated interconnect, peering, and private links), designed to meet the TPU system design Google provides.
Build and lead the networking organization across architecture, network software and automation, deployment, and operations. Hire people better than you at their craft, then stay close enough to know when something is off before it shows up in a report.
Own network performance and reliability for large-scale training and inference: bandwidth, latency, congestion behavior, failure domains, and availability SLOs,
Operate achieved through discipline, not heroics.
Run the network as a software system: zero-touch provisioning, intent-based configuration, fleet-wide telemetry, and automated remediation, so that the network scales with sites rather than with headcount.
Set vendor and technology strategy for switching, optics, and transport with Strategic Supply, including when to standardize, when to dual-source, and when to adopt emerging options such as optical circuit switching.
Partner with Data Center Engineering and Capacity Delivery on fiber, cabling, and meet-me design in every build; with Site Selection on fiber and carrier access at candidate sites; with the Compute team on tenant isolation and provisioning; and with Sales and Customer Success on customer connectivity commitments.
Establish the network security and isolation posture that sovereign and regulated customers require, and own the network inputs (capex, optics, transport, and failure rates) to the cost and margin model of record.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Gained a complete understanding of the TPU system design, the capacity plan of record, and first-site network requirements, and published a written network architecture and org plan.
Hired or committed your first network leaders across architecture, software, and deployment.
Locked the switching, optics, and transport approach for the first builds with Strategic Supply and Google.
Established working cadences with Google counterparts, Data Center Engineering, Compute Engineering, and our customers’ engineering and product teams.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
Stood up AI-forward development of the zero-touch provisioning, orchestration and observability stack
After 6 months:
Delivered the network for the first production TPU clusters through design, deployment, and acceptance on the committed timeline.
Stood up zero-touch provisioning and fleet telemetry, with network SLOs reviewed weekly in a format the executive team trusts.
Brought the first customers onto the platform through dedicated connectivity that met their performance and isolation requirements.
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role: you have built, in a hands-on way, AI-enabled tools for network design or operations that the team uses every day.
After 1 year:
Running a multi-site network with backbone and interconnect at the reliability and performance targets committed to customers, with incidents becoming rarer and more boring.
Built a high-performing networking organization with strong leaders in every domain and a hiring bar that holds as the team grows.
Agreed a network roadmap for the next phases of capacity that keeps cost per unit of bandwidth falling as the fleet grows.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
15+ years in large-scale networking, including 7+ years leading organizations of organizations at the VP level or above.
Direct ownership of a production network at hyperscale, such as a data center fabric, global backbone, data center interconnect, or a cloud networking platform, with accountability for reliability and customer outcomes.
A track record of turning the network into a software system through SDN, automation, programmable data planes, or network virtualization, at production scale.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands-on. You hold your own with principal architects and vendor CTOs on congestion control, optics, or fabric topology, and you can take the same topic to the board. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
You have sat on both sides of the table, operator and vendor or builder and buyer, and you use that to make better architecture and supply decisions.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You are skeptical by default. \"The fabric is up\" is a hypothesis until it passes acceptance under all-to-all, customer-shaped load. You build the system that makes the next incident boring.
You operate as an owner, not a supervisor
You like to build and are not afraid to go deep into engineering implementations.
You are AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Network leadership at a hyperscaler (Google, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Meta) or a neocloud (CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe).
Hands-on experience with AI cluster networking: RDMA and RoCE, Ultra Ethernet, large training fabrics, or optical circuit switching.
Depth in optical transport, including long-haul, metro, or subsea systems.
Experience with programmable data planes, SmartNICs, or DPUs.
Patents or publications (for example SIGCOMM or OFC) and standing in industry bodies such as the Open Compute Project, Ultra Ethernet Consortium, or OpenConfig.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will own compute at Crux: the platform that turns Google TPUs, Crux power and data center capacity, and our network into dedicated, reliable, customer-ready AI compute. Reporting to our CTPO, you own everything between the rack and the customer's first job: the TPU cluster fleet, the software that provisions, monitors and heals it, the container orchestration layer that schedules work onto it, and the compute products our customers consume, from our first phase of capacity through a multi-gigawatt fleet.
This is a platform-builder seat: you will set the architecture of record, hire the leaders, and hold the bar for reliability, efficiency, and speed as Crux scales.
In this role, you will:
Define the compute platform strategy and architecture of record: how TPU capacity is carved into dedicated clusters, provisioned, isolated, and delivered to hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, and enterprises.
Architect and deliver the full compute lifecycle: hardware onboarding and inventory, OS and firmware provisioning, burn-in and validation, rack certification, customer handoff, repair and retirement.
Design and ship Crux's managed container orchestration on bare metal: automated control-plane provisioning, upgrades, and operators for TPUs.
Build and lead a multi-layer engineering organization spanning cluster provisioning and lifecycle, orchestration and scheduling, fleet health and telemetry, and the customer-facing compute surface.
Hire people better than you at their craft, then stay close enough to know when something is off before it shows up in a report.
Own compute reliability and efficiency end to end: SLOs, goodput and utilization, time from rack-ready to customer-ready, and failure recovery at fleet scale, achieved through discipline, not heroics.
Serve as Crux's primary technical counterpart to Google on the TPU hardware, software, and services roadmap, translating customer needs into Google requirements and Google capabilities into Crux product.
Set the build, adopt, or integrate line for the compute software stack: what Crux builds natively, what it adopts from Google, and what it sources from partners.
Stand up the security, tenant isolation, and compliance posture that sovereign and regulated customers require for dedicated compute.
Partner with Data Center Engineering and Capacity Delivery on cluster design, bring-up, and acceptance; with Network Engineering on fabric and interconnect; with TPM's on what we can commit to and when; and with Finance on the utilization, failure-rate, and spares inputs to the cost and margin model of record.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Gained a complete understanding of the TPU platform, the Google partnership model, the capacity plan of record, and our first customer commitments, and published a written compute architecture and org plan.
Hired or committed your first layer of engineering leaders across the core compute domains.
Established working cadences with Google counterparts, Data Center Engineering, Network Engineering, and our customers’ engineering and product teams.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
Stood up AI-forward development of the zero-touch provisioning, orchestration and observability stack
After 6 months:
Delivered the first production TPU clusters through provisioning, validation, and customer handoff on the committed timeline.
Defined and instrumented compute SLOs, utilization, and time-to-capacity metrics, reviewed weekly in a format the executive team trusts.
Shipped the first version of the customer-facing compute surface (access, APIs, observability) that customers use without hand-holding.
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role: you have built, in a hands-on way, AI-enabled tools for fleet operations that the team uses every day.
After 1 year:
Running a multi-site TPU fleet at the reliability and efficiency targets committed to customers, with incidents becoming rarer and more boring.
Built a high-performing compute organization with strong leaders in every domain and a hiring bar that holds as the team grows.
Made the compute platform a differentiator in customer wins and renewals, with the roadmap for the next phases of capacity agreed with Google and the executive team.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
15+ years building and operating large-scale compute or cloud infrastructure platforms, including 7+ years leading organizations of organizations at the SVP level or above.
Direct ownership of a production compute platform at scale, such as a hypervisor or virtualization platform, a bare metal or dedicated cloud, a hyperscale compute service, or accelerator (TPU, GPU, or custom silicon) infrastructure, with accountability for reliability and customer outcomes.
A track record of leading a platform rebuild or transformation (on-prem to cloud, legacy to modern architecture, or a new platform from zero to meaningful revenue) while keeping existing customers running.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands-on. You can go deep on scheduler design, failure domains, or a provisioning bottleneck with your engineers, then take the same topic to the board. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
You have owned AI-first engineering teams, and you make roadmap tradeoffs with customer value, cost, and reliability in the same frame.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You are skeptical by default. \"The cluster is ready\" is a hypothesis until it passes acceptance under customer-shaped load. You build the system that makes the next incident boring.
You operate as an owner, not a supervisor.
You like to build and are not afraid to go deep into engineering implementations
You are AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Compute leadership at a hyperscaler (Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Meta Infrastructure) or a neocloud (CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe).
Hands-on exposure to AI accelerators or high-performance computing: supercomputing, accelerator software stacks, or large training and inference clusters.
Experience building sovereign, distributed, or on-prem cloud offerings for regulated and government customers.
Experience in both startup and scaled enterprise environments, including building an organization from its first hires.
Standing in open infrastructure communities (for example, Open Compute Project or OpenStack) or patents in systems and infrastructure.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will set the technical direction for the hardest problems at Crux: the ones that sit between layers and belong to no single team. Crux is designing power, facilities, TPU clusters, networking, and software together, which creates problems that have never been solved at this scale or with this degree of integration. Reporting to our CTO, you will define the architecture of record for those cross-cutting systems, invent where the known answers fall short, and take ideas from first principles to production alongside the Compute, Networking, and Security teams. This is an individual contributor seat with company-wide reach: you lead through the quality of your ideas, your designs, and the engineers you raise, not through an org chart.
In this role, you will:
Own the architecture of record for cross-cutting systems, such as the fleet control plane, network and compute co-design for TPU clusters, multi-tenant isolation, and the telemetry that ties the physical and software layers together.
Identify the few technical bets that will define Crux's cost, efficiency, and reliability over the next five years, and drive them from design to production, including power-aware scheduling, fabric design, and failure handling at fleet scale.
Write the designs and the code that matter most. Prototype, measure, and prove ideas before asking teams to build on them.
Review and raise the bar on architecture across Compute, Networking, Security, and Data Center Engineering, and be the person teams bring their hardest problems to.
Serve as a senior technical counterpart to Google on the TPU system roadmap, and to the most technically demanding customers on how their workloads should run on Crux.
Attract and develop exceptional engineers, and connect Crux to the research community through collaborations, publications, and open work where it helps Crux.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Gained a complete understanding of the platform architecture, the TPU system design, and the capacity plan of record, and published a written view of the top technical risks and bets.
Become a trusted reviewer on the most consequential design decisions for the first builds.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
After 6 months:
Delivered a design of record for at least one cross-cutting system, with a working prototype and a measured result that changed a decision.
Raised the quality of design reviews across teams, with clear standards others now use.
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role: you have built, in a hands-on way, AI-enabled tools for design, simulation, or analysis that engineers use every day.
After 1 year:
Taken a major technical bet to production, with measurable gains in efficiency, reliability, or time-to-capacity across the fleet.
Become a reason strong engineers choose Crux, with a visible technical reputation inside and outside the company.
Set a multi-year technical direction for the platform that the CTO, Google, and engineering leaders are aligned on.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
15+ years designing and building large-scale networked or distributed systems, with work that has changed how the industry builds infrastructure.
A record of taking ideas from research or first principles into production, as a founder, startup CTO, or technical lead at a hyperscaler, research lab, or infrastructure company.
Deep expertise in at least one of networking, distributed systems, operating systems, or systems for AI, and fluency across the others.
Attributes
You are hands-on. You write designs and code, run the experiments, and read the data yourself. This is a builder's seat, not an advisory one.
You lead through influence. Engineers and leaders follow your technical judgment because it is consistently right and clearly explained.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You are skeptical by default. An elegant design is a hypothesis until it survives production traffic and real failures. You prefer simple, general building blocks to clever special cases.
You operate as an owner, not an advisor.
You are AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
A PhD in computer science or a related field, with publications at venues such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, OSDI, or SOSP.
Recognition such as ACM or IEEE Fellow, or test-of-time and best paper awards.
Experience founding or serving as CTO of an infrastructure startup, including through acquisition.
Work on software-defined networking, programmable data planes, network function virtualization, or energy-efficient systems.
Experience with AI accelerator systems, large training clusters, or TPU-scale infrastructure.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will be the lead lawyer for how Crux sells, delivers, and supports AI compute. Reporting to our General Counsel, you will own the customer contract framework (master services agreements, capacity reservation and order forms, service levels, and data protection and security terms) for hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, and enterprises, along with the product, privacy, trade compliance, and partner terms that sit behind every deal. You will start as a hands-on practitioner and build a team of 1 to 3 counsel as deal volume grows. This is a builder's seat: you will set the contract framework of record that lets Sales close large, multi-year commitments quickly while protecting margin and the fleet.
In this role, you will:
Build and own Crux's customer contract framework: MSA, capacity reservation and order forms, service level agreements and credits, acceptable use, and data processing and security terms, designed for dedicated TPU cluster commitments.
Lead the negotiation of strategic, multi-year customer agreements with hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, and enterprises, including capacity and take-or-pay commitments, prepayments, credit support, and termination economics.
Make sure what we sign matches what we can deliver: tie SLAs, delivery dates, and remedies to the capacity plan of record and to the terms Crux holds with Google, site owners, and suppliers, so risk does not get stranded between contracts.
Counsel Product and Engineering on the compute platform: product terms, data handling, privacy and security commitments, open source use, and IP.
Own trade compliance for compute, including export controls on advanced chips and AI, sanctions, and customer screening, with particular care for sovereign and international customers.
Partner with Sales, Pricing, Customer Success, Strategic Supply / Partnerships, and Finance (revenue recognition and credit), and with Corporate & Corporate Finance Legal on how customer commitments interact with financing covenants.
Run vendor and partner contracting for the commercial stack (software, network, and service providers) with clear templates and approval thresholds.
Hire and lead a team of 1 to 3 counsel as volume grows. Hire people better than you at their craft, then stay close enough to know when something is off before it shows up in a report.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Gained a complete understanding of our product, the Google partnership terms, the capacity plan of record, and the customer pipeline, and published a written commercial legal plan.
Shipped the first version of the customer contract framework (MSA, order form, and SLA), aligned with Sales, Pricing, and Finance.
Established a deal desk cadence with Sales and Pricing, with clear approval thresholds for non-standard terms.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
After 6 months:
Closed our first anchor customer agreements on terms within the playbook, with every commitment traced back to capacity we control.
Stood up export control and sanctions screening and a privacy and security terms package that sovereign and regulated customers accept.
Defined the hiring plan for your team and made your first hire(s) as deal volume requires.
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role: you have built, in a hands-on way, AI-enabled tools for first-pass contract review, redlines against our playbook, or deal intake that the team uses every day.
After 1 year:
Contract cycle time falling quarter over quarter, with most standard deals closing without a Legal escalation.
Built a small, high-performing commercial legal team and a playbook that Sales trusts.
Made the contract framework a differentiator in customer wins and renewals: customers see Crux as easy to contract with, and Finance sees no surprises in what we committed.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years of legal experience, combining top-tier law firm training with significant in-house experience negotiating complex commercial technology agreements (cloud, IaaS, colocation, SaaS, or hardware).
Direct ownership of large, multi-year customer agreements with sophisticated counterparties, including SLAs, data protection, security, and liability allocation.
Experience building a commercial contracting framework, playbook, or deal desk process at a growing company.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands-on. You can go deep on an SLA credit structure or a capacity termination fee with Sales and Pricing, then take the same deal to the executive team. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
You think in deal economics. You know where margin leaks in a contract (credits, caps, termination rights, change in law) and you trade legal positions for business value deliberately.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You are skeptical by default. A delivery date in a customer contract is a hypothesis until it is backed by capacity we control. You build the system that makes the next escalation boring.
You operate as an owner, not a supervisor.
You are AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
In-house commercial experience at a hyperscaler or cloud provider (Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle) or a neocloud (CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, Nebius).
Experience with export controls and sanctions for advanced chips, compute, or other controlled technology, including government or sovereign customers.
Privacy credentials (for example, CIPP/US or CIPP/E) or experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or government security commitments.
Experience counseling on AI products or responsible AI.
Experience in both startup and scaled enterprise environments, including building a legal function from its first hires.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will be the lead lawyer for Crux's corporate structure, governance, and the financings that fund a multi-gigawatt build. Reporting to our General Counsel and working hand in hand with the CFO and Capital Markets, you will own the legal execution of multi-billion dollar debt and equity transactions, keep a fast-growing entity structure clean and compliant, and run board, sponsor, and partner governance with Blackstone and Google. You will start as a hands-on practitioner and build a team of 1 to 3 counsel as volume grows. This is a builder's seat: you will set the governance, approval, and financing playbooks of record for a company being built to raise capital at unprecedented scale.
In this role, you will:
Lead the legal execution of corporate and asset-level financings from term sheet through close and post-close: construction and project financings, asset-backed securitizations, equipment and lease financings, supply chain financing, revolving credit facilities, and equity raises.
Own the covenant and obligation map across the debt stack: what each facility permits, restricts, and requires, and how those terms flow into customer contracts, site agreements, and the cost and margin model of record.
Run corporate governance for Crux and its subsidiaries: board and committee materials, minutes and written consents, sponsor and partner consent rights, delegations of authority, and the approval matrix the company actually operates by.
Build and maintain a clean entity structure as the fleet grows: formations, project SPVs, intercompany agreements, foreign qualifications, and the records that lenders, auditors, and investors will diligence.
Advise on strategic transactions, joint ventures, and M&A, including diligence, structuring, negotiation, and integration.
Partner with Capital Markets, Treasury, Tax, and Accounting on structuring and execution, with Data Center Legal on project-level financings, and with People on equity and incentive plans and executive agreements.
Select and manage outside counsel to a budget, keeping strategy, judgment, and institutional knowledge in house.
Hire and lead a team of 1 to 3 counsel as volume grows. Hire people better than you at their craft, then stay close enough to know when something is off before it shows up in a report.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Gained a complete understanding of Crux's entity structure, governing documents, sponsor and partner rights, and current financing status and go-forward needs, and published a written corporate legal plan with priorities and gaps.
Stood up a board and governance calendar, a delegation of authority and approval matrix, and a single source of truth for entity records.
Established working relationships with the CFO, Capital Markets, Tax, our sponsors' legal teams, and key outside and lender counsel.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
After 6 months:
Closed the first major financing(s) on the committed timeline, with a post-close compliance calendar that tracks every covenant, reporting obligation, and consent right.
Delivered financing and governance playbooks (standard positions, a precedent library, and approval paths) that shorten the next deal.
Defined the hiring plan for your team and made your first hire(s) as volume requires.
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role: you have built, in a hands-on way, AI-enabled tools for covenant tracking, closing checklists, or board materials that the team uses every day.
After 1 year:
Running a repeatable financing process where each transaction closes faster and cleaner than the last, with zero missed covenant, reporting, or consent deadlines.
Built a small, high-performing corporate legal team and an outside counsel model that is predictable in cost.
Positioned Crux's governance, entity structure, and records to support the next stage of capital formation, including potential public markets readiness.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years of corporate and finance legal experience, combining top-tier law firm training (corporate, capital markets, banking and finance, or project finance) with significant in-house experience.
A direct track record of closing complex debt financings ($1B+ transaction sizes), including structured, asset-based, or project finance, and supporting equity transactions.
Hands-on corporate governance experience with a board, financial sponsors, or joint venture partners across a multi-entity structure.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands-on. You turn documents yourself, you can go deep on a borrowing base or a change-of-control definition with lender counsel, and then explain the tradeoff in two sentences to the CFO. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
You are commercially minded. You understand how a covenant package shapes what the business can sell, build, and promise, and you negotiate for operating flexibility, not just legal protection.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You are skeptical by default. A closing date is a hypothesis until every condition precedent has an owner and a date. You build the system that makes the next closing boring.
You operate as an owner, not a supervisor.
You are AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
In-house experience at a capital-intensive, sponsor-backed, or high-growth company, ideally in digital infrastructure, energy, or AI (a hyperscaler, a neocloud such as CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, or Nebius, or a data center developer).
Experience with accelerator- or equipment-collateralized financings, data center ABS, or project finance for energy or digital infrastructure.
Experience with LLC or partnership governance and joint venture agreements.
Securities law and public company readiness experience.
Experience in both startup and scaled enterprise environments, including building a legal function from its first hires.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
You will build Crux's financial system of record. Sitting within Finance in the Accounting and Financial Reporting organization, you will lead the implementation of our ERP and own every finance system and data flow around it, from our first phase of capacity through a multi-gigawatt fleet. Crux will own billions of dollars of TPUs, networking, and data center equipment, and every dollar of it needs to move cleanly from purchase order to the general ledger, the fixed asset register, depreciation, and disposal.
This is a builder's seat: you will design the ledger, decide what to buy versus build, hire the team, and hold the bar for financial data that our auditors, lenders, sponsor, and executive team can trust.
You will work hand in hand with the Head of Operational Data (Single Source of Truth), who owns the company-wide operational database for hardware, sites, power, and project data. They own the physical and operational record. You own how it lands in the books.
Lead ERP and ancillary financial system implementation: requirements, vendor and systems integrator evaluation, chart of accounts and legal entity design, and a go-live plan that supports the month-end close from day one. After go-live, own the ERP as the financial system of record, as well as any ancillary systems that are part of the financial ecosystem.
Build the finance modules a capital-intensive company needs: procure-to-pay, project and construction-in-progress accounting, fixed assets and depreciation, lease accounting, customer billing and revenue, intercompany, and consolidation.
Own the purchase-order-to-ledger flow: capitalization, placed-in-service, depreciation, impairment, and disposal, with the fixed asset subledger reconciling automatically to the asset events the operational database provides.
Turn operational data into accounting entries: utility accruals, site and customer cost allocation, and the cost and margin inputs FP&A needs, built on reconciled feeds rather than manual rekeying.
Stand up finance reporting: close dashboards, fixed asset roll-forwards, flux analysis, and lender and sponsor reporting packages built on the ERP and utilizing AI to drive high efficiency workflows.
Design controls into the systems: audit trails, access controls, segregation of duties, and automated reconciliations that make Crux SOX-ready and keep the audit uneventful.
Build and lead the Finance Systems team across ERP administration, finance integrations, and finance reporting.
Partner closely with the Head of Operational Data on shared data standards and integrations; with Accounting and FP&A on close and reporting; with Treasury and Procurement Operations on payments and purchase orders; and with Strategic Supply on contract data.
Gained an understanding of key components of Crux's business plan and operational and financial reporting expectations to drive appropriate systems decisions.
Joined the ongoing ERP discussions and driven decisions around a recommended platform, implementation partner, and timeline.
Set key guardrails with the Head of Operational Data on the domain of the systems andd interface between them: one asset identity, the chart of accounts and cost center mapping, and which events flow initially from operations into the ledger.
Launched the ERP as the financial system of record, running the month-end close and chart of accounts, entities, and a fixed asset module configured for our first capacity.
Fixed asset subledger and utility accruals running on automated feeds from the operational database, with no manual rekeying.
Built hands-on, AI-enabled tools for reconciliation and close that the team uses every day.
The close, fixed asset roll-forward, and lender and sponsor reporting run from the ERP, with a controls process that is SOX-ready.
Adding a new entity, site, or tranche of TPUs is a configuration change, not a project.
Built a lean Finance Systems team that partners well with the business as Crux grows.
15+ years across finance systems, ERP implementation, or accounting operations, including 7+ years leading finance systems teams.
Led at least one full ERP selection and implementation (for example NetSuite, Oracle Fusion, SAP S/4HANA, or Workday Financials) from requirements through go-live and first audit, at a company with significant fixed assets or construction activity.
Built fixed asset, CIP, and depreciation processes for hardware or infrastructure at scale.
You are hands-on. You can configure the ERP, debug a failed integration, and then walk Accounting leadership and our auditors through the same issue. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
You speak both languages: capitalization policy and close timelines with Accounting, integrations and data quality with engineers.
You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
You are skeptical by default. A number is a hypothesis until it reconciles. You build the system that makes the next audit boring.
You bring bad news first, unprompted, and own the result.
You are AI-agentic first, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Finance systems leadership at a hyperscaler, a neocloud, or a capital-intensive operator such as a data center developer or utility.
Experience preparing a company for SOX compliance or an IPO, or supporting asset-backed financing and lender reporting.
CPA or CMA, or a technical degree paired with deep accounting fluency.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
What you'll do
You will define how Crux runs its TPU fleet, and build it so that AI agents, not people, do most of the operating.
Reporting to our CTPO, you will own the telemetry that ties our facilities, clusters, and network together, the incident and change processes that govern them, and the autonomous systems that detect, triage, and remediate failures before a customer notices.
As the first leader of this function, you will write the operating model, hire the team, and take it from the first Stage 1 build to fleet scale, partnering with Compute, Network Engineering, Facility Operations, Security, Customer Success, and Google.
In this role, you will:
Own one telemetry and event pipeline across power, cooling, TPU hosts, interconnect, and the control plane, with the correlation to tell a failing pump from a failing chip from a failing job.
Build AI agents that triage alerts, run runbooks, drain and requeue workloads, and initiate RMAs with Google, with a measured share of work closed with zero human touch.
Set SLOs and error budgets for every Crux service, and run the incident, postmortem, and change process that holds the fleet to them.
Stand up 24/7 fleet operations where agents handle repeat failures and people handle novel ones, then turn them into automation.
Hire and develop SRE, fleet operations, and AI tooling leaders.
Signals of success
After 90 days in this role:
Published the AI Ops operating model: SLOs, on-call and escalation, incident process, and ownership boundaries with adjacent teams.
Mapped every critical failure mode for the first build to a signal, an alert, a runbook, and an owner.
After 6 months:
Taken the first Stage 1 cluster into production with SLOs met.
Built, hands-on, AI agents the team uses every day, with a measured share of incidents resolved without human intervention.
After 1 year:
Run a multi-site fleet where most operational work executes autonomously, with measurable gains in availability, recovery time, and cost per chip.
Become a reason strong SRE and operations engineers choose Crux.
Experiences, attributes and mindset that indicate a good match
Experiences
15+ years in large-scale infrastructure operations, SRE, or network operations, including 7+ years leading multi-team organizations.
Ran production for a cloud, hyperscaler, or colocation platform against hard SLAs across many sites.
Built and shipped AI-driven operations systems (event correlation, auto-remediation, agentic triage) at measurable scale.
Attributes
Outcome driven and hands-on. You read the telemetry and write the agent yourself. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
Mindset
Skeptical by default. \"90% automated\" is a hypothesis until it survives a bad night at a new site.
Reliability through discipline, not heroics. You build the system that makes the next incident boring.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
SRE or fleet operations leadership at a hyperscaler or neocloud.
Global NOC or data center interconnect operations across 100+ sites.
Operating TPU or GPU clusters for large training and inference workloads.
Patents or publications in AIOps, autonomous operations, or network automation.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will own Crux's relationships with the governments, communities, and public audiences that decide where and how fast Crux can build. Data centers today earn their permits, tax agreements, and utility approvals in rooms full of neighbors, county commissioners, and school boards, and increasingly in state legislatures, public utility commissions, and the press, and schedule risk concentrates there. Your job is to make Crux the developer that communities and governments say yes to, and to keep that yes durable through a multi-year build. You will build this function from zero: the government affairs strategy, the community engagement playbook, the community investment program, the corporate communications rhythm, and the relationships at every level of government and at every site in the pipeline. The role works hand-in-hand with site selection, entitlements, energy, construction, operations, and executive leadership.
In this role, you will:
Lead Crux's government affairs strategy at the local, state, and federal levels: build relationships with elected officials, agency and regulatory staff, and economic development agencies, and track and shape the policy issues that affect data center development, including energy and interconnection, water, tax incentives, and permitting.
Build and maintain relationships with the stakeholders who decide our projects' fate, including county and municipal officials, planning and zoning staff, utilities, school districts, business organizations, and community non-profits, in every market Crux enters.
Serve as Crux's external affairs lead and spokesperson, representing the company with policymakers, trade associations, industry coalitions, and the media, and advise executive leadership on emerging political, regulatory, and reputational issues.
Own the company-level communications narrative and manage the PR agency relationship: set priorities, direct agency work, and coordinate closely with executive leadership, legal, and Blackstone/Google partner teams on major company updates such as financings, partnerships, site announcements, and leadership news, so that Crux speaks with one consistent voice.
Support site selection and entitlements as the community diligence lead: assess local sentiment, political dynamics, and opposition risk before we commit to a site, and prepare the engagement strategy, public materials, and testimony that carry rezonings, permits, and incentive agreements through public hearings.
Treat community and government approvals as the external dependencies they are: track hearings, comment periods, and approval milestones against the project schedule with owners and mitigation plans, and give the development team early signal when local or policy risk threatens a date.
Design and run Crux's community investment program, including local grants, workforce and trades partnerships, and STEM and school initiatives, as locally tailored plans built from real community needs assessments.
Build and sustain partnerships with the construction trades: engage building trades councils, local unions, contractors, and apprenticeship programs early on labor availability, project labor agreements, and local-hire and workforce commitments, and keep those relationships productive through construction peaks and into operations.
Own local communications: the project narrative for each site (jobs, tax base, and water and power facts stated honestly), community meetings and open houses, local media relationships, and rapid, truthful response when construction impacts or misinformation create friction.
Manage community commitments through delivery: what we promised in the development agreement or CBA, who owns each commitment, and the reporting that proves we kept it, from construction traffic, noise, and workforce peaks into steady-state operations.
Write the playbook: engagement templates, hearing-prep kits, community risk assessments, issue-response protocols, and investment program standards that every future Crux site inherits.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in role: Community risk assessment completed for every active site and pipeline market; key local relationships opened in priority markets; a map of state and federal policy priorities and key stakeholders drafted; PR agency scope, cadence, and approval workflow agreed with leadership; engagement playbook and hearing-prep framework drafted; community milestones integrated into the development schedule alongside permitting and interconnection.
6 months: First public approvals carried with community support on the record; community investment program designed and launched in the first market; commitments register live with owners and dates; a government affairs plan in motion with active relationships at the state level in priority markets; at least one major company announcement delivered through a coordinated agency and internal process; local officials and media in active markets know and trust their Crux contact.
1 year: No projected date lost to preventable community opposition; measurable local goodwill in operating markets (renewed incentives, supportive testimony, expansion optionality); Crux recognized by policymakers and industry peers as a credible, proactive voice; the engagement playbook and communications protocols adopted as standard for every new site entering the pipeline.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
7+ years in public affairs, government relations, community engagement, or economic development for large infrastructure or industrial projects. You have stood at the podium in a contested public hearing and carried the room, not just drafted the talking points.
Track record of building trust with elected officials, regulators, municipal leaders, non-profits, school districts, and residents across multiple markets simultaneously, including designing community investment or CSR programs with real budgets and measured outcomes.
Experience leading external or corporate communications, including managing PR agencies and coordinating announcements, media strategy, and issues response with senior executives.
Working fluency in the development and policy process (zoning and entitlements, development agreements, tax incentive structures, environmental review, energy and utility regulation), enough to negotiate credibly alongside legal and site selection and to answer a commissioner's or legislator's power and water questions with facts.
Attributes
Outcome driven and hands-on. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one. You drive to the county seat, sit in the diner with the commissioner, attend the evening planning meeting yourself, and write the testimony, while also being comfortable in the statehouse and the boardroom.
Honest broker in both directions. You tell communities and policymakers the truth about water, power, jobs, and noise, and you tell Crux the truth when a concern is legitimate and the project needs to change. Credibility is the asset; you never spend it on spin.
Mindset
High tolerance for ambiguity. You will engage communities before sites are public, manage what cannot yet be said, and absorb the tension between confidentiality and transparency, translating genuine unknowns into honest engagement rather than false certainty or silence.
AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents — or committed to becoming so quickly — and you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (preferred, not required)
Data center community or government affairs experience at a hyperscaler (Meta, Google, AWS, Microsoft) or major developer; you have already run this play in this industry.
Experience in rural and small-market community dynamics, where a data center is the biggest thing to happen to the county in a generation.
Crisis communications experience, including construction incidents, misinformation campaigns, and organized opposition.
Economic development or public-sector background (city or county government, EDC, chamber, legislative or agency staff); you know how the other side of the table thinks.
Spanish or other language fluency relevant to Crux's site markets.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will build the systems that let AI agents, not people, do most of the work of running Crux's TPU fleet. Reporting to our Director, AI Ops, you will be one of the first engineers on the team, writing the telemetry pipelines, correlation logic, and agents that detect, triage, and remediate failures across facilities, TPU hosts, the network, and the control plane before a customer notices. You will turn every runbook into code and every repeat incident into automation. This is a hands-on engineering seat: you write and ship the software, then operate it in production.
In this role, you will:
Build and own the telemetry and event pipeline that ties together power, cooling, TPU hosts, interconnect, and the control plane, with the correlation to tell a failing pump from a failing chip from a failing job.
Write AI agents that triage alerts, execute runbooks, drain and requeue workloads, and open hardware repair and RMA requests with Google, with every action logged, reversible, and measured.
Turn runbooks into code, so that every critical failure mode for the first build maps to a signal, an alert, an automated response, and an owner.
Build the guardrails that keep autonomous actions safe: blast-radius limits, approval gates for high-risk changes, and tested rollback paths.
Define and instrument SLOs and error budgets with Compute, Network Engineering, and Facility Operations, and build the views the team reviews every week.
Take part in on-call and incident response, and drive postmortems that end in a fix that ships, not an action item that ages.
Measure the share of operational work that closes with zero human touch, and drive that number up release over release.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Gained a complete understanding of the first-build architecture, the failure modes that matter most, and the tooling in place today, and shipped a first working agent against a real, repeat failure.
Stood up the first version of the unified telemetry pipeline for the first build.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
After 6 months:
Taken the first Stage 1 cluster into production with automated detection and remediation in place for its top failure modes.
Shipped agents the team relies on every day, with a measured share of incidents resolved without human intervention.
Built the guardrails and audit trail that let the team trust autonomous actions in production.
After 1 year:
Running automation across a multi-site fleet where most repeat operational work executes autonomously, with measurable gains in availability, recovery time, and cost per chip.
Built a library of agents and runbooks-as-code that every new site inherits on day one.
Become a reason strong SRE and operations engineers choose Crux.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
10+ years in software engineering, SRE, or production engineering for large-scale infrastructure, including operating a fleet across many sites against hard SLAs.
Built and shipped AI-driven operations systems in production, such as event correlation, anomaly detection, auto-remediation, or agentic triage, with measurable results.
Strong software skills in Python or Go, and hands-on experience with observability stacks (for example Prometheus or OpenTelemetry), Kubernetes, and large-scale data pipelines.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands-on. You read the telemetry and write the agent yourself. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
You are close enough to the hardware to be useful. You understand how power, cooling, accelerators, and networks fail, not just how software does.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You are skeptical by default. \"90% automated\" is a hypothesis until it survives a bad night at a new site. You build the system that makes the next incident boring.
You deliver reliability through discipline, not heroics. You would rather fix the cause once than page someone twice.
You are AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
SRE or production engineering at a hyperscaler (Google, Meta, Microsoft, AWS) or a neocloud (CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe).
Experience operating TPU or GPU clusters for large training and inference workloads, including hardware health, repair workflows, and fleet telemetry.
Experience with data center infrastructure telemetry such as BMS, DCIM, or power and cooling systems.
Experience building LLM-based agents with tool use, evaluations, and safety controls in production.
Experience with predictive maintenance, ML-based anomaly detection, or failure prediction at fleet scale.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will be the first security engineer at Crux and the architect of how our platform protects customer workloads, from hardware root of trust to the tenant boundary. Reporting within our CTPO organization, you will define the security architecture of record for our TPU clusters, data centers, network, and control plane, and build the controls yourself. Our customers include sovereign governments, frontier AI labs, and regulated enterprises running their most sensitive models on dedicated capacity, so security is part of the product, not a review at the end. This is an individual contributor seat with company-wide reach: you lead through the quality of your designs and the controls you ship.
In this role, you will:
Define the security architecture of record across the stack: hardware and firmware, bare metal hosts, out-of-band management, cluster fabric, control plane, and customer access.
Build tenant isolation that dedicated and sovereign customers can verify, including network segmentation, secure provisioning and wipe between tenants, and attestation of what is running on their capacity.
Secure the hardware supply chain and boot path with Google and our suppliers: secure and measured boot, BMC hardening, firmware integrity, and key management.
Design how customer model weights and data are protected at rest, in transit, and in use, and how access to them is controlled and audited.
Work with Data Center Engineering and Facility Operations so that physical security, access control, and network security are designed together at every site.
Stand up threat modeling, security design review, detection, and incident response for the platform, and automate them so they scale with the fleet.
Turn customer and regulatory requirements, such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and sovereign data residency, into concrete controls and the evidence that proves them.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:c
Gained a complete understanding of the platform architecture, the Google partnership model, and our first customer commitments, and published a threat model and security architecture of record for the first build.
Become a required reviewer on the design decisions that set the security posture of the first sites.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
After 6 months:
Delivered the first production TPU cluster with tenant isolation, secure boot, and access controls in place and verified.
Stood up security monitoring and incident response for the platform, with tested playbooks for the scenarios that matter most.
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role: you have built, in a hands-on way, AI-enabled tools for threat detection, design review, or compliance evidence that the team uses every day.
After 1 year:
Passed the first customer and third-party security assessments without findings that block a deal.
Made security a reason sovereign and regulated customers choose Crux, with an isolation and attestation story they can verify.
Set a multi-year security roadmap that the CTPO, Google, and engineering leaders are aligned on.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
12+ years in security engineering, with deep focus on infrastructure, cloud, or platform security at scale.
Hands-on experience securing bare metal and data center infrastructure, including hardware root of trust, TPMs, secure and measured boot, BMC hardening, and out-of-band management networks.
A track record of designing multi-tenant isolation and identity and access architectures for a cloud or hyperscale platform, and shipping them to production.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands-on. You write the design, the code, and the detection rule yourself. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
You make security an enabler. You find the path that ships the product safely rather than the reason it cannot ship.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You are skeptical by default. \"The tenant is isolated\" is a hypothesis until it survives a red team. You build the system that makes the next incident boring.
You operate as an owner, not an advisor.
You are AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Infrastructure security at a hyperscaler (Google, AWS, Microsoft, Meta) or a neocloud (CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe).
Experience with confidential computing, remote attestation, or securing AI accelerators and model weights.
Experience building controls for FedRAMP High, IL5, or sovereign cloud programs.
An active security clearance, or experience working with government and defense customers.
Patents, publications, or recognized work in hardware, firmware, or cloud security.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work
Built to set the gold standard for integrated AI infrastructure
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will run the day-to-day operating rhythm of Crux's technology organization and keep the programs that cut across it on track. Reporting to our CTPO, you will build and maintain the integrated plan for how Compute, Networking, Security, AI Ops, and ServerOps deliver our first production TPU clusters, and you will be the person who knows what is on track, what is at risk, and who needs to make a decision to fix it. You will run the working-level program cadence with Google, connect engineering milestones to the capacity plan of record and to customer commitments, and keep the CTPO's priorities moving while the organization is still being built. This is a builder's seat: you build the plans, the dashboards, and the tools yourself.
In this role, you will:
Build and maintain the integrated technology plan for the first builds: milestones, dependencies, and readiness gates across Compute, Networking, Security, AI Ops, and ServerOps, from cluster design through customer handoff.
Run the technical program cadence with Google on TPU hardware, software, and services delivery, and track action items and commitments on both sides.
Work with Capacity Delivery, Data Center Engineering, and the Development program managers where site delivery hands off to cluster bring-up, so that every handoff from rack-ready to customer-ready is tracked against the committed date.
Run the CTPO operating rhythm: weekly reviews, quarterly planning inputs, and goal tracking. Prepare the materials for executive and board updates.
Surface risks early and bring them to the right owner with the decision needed, the options, and a date, rather than reporting status after the fact.
Track the CTPO hiring plan and headcount with Recruiting and Finance, and help each new team get set up as its leader arrives.
Build the program tooling yourself: plans, dashboards, and AI-enabled workflows that keep status current without status meetings.
SIGNALS OF SUCCESS
After 60 days in this role:
Learned the capacity plan of record, the Google partnership model, and our first customer commitments, and published the first version of the integrated technology plan for the first build.
Stood up the CTPO weekly review and the working cadence with Google.
Adapted to a fast-paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.
After 6 months:
Kept the integrated plan current through the first production TPU cluster delivery, with readiness gates that caught issues before they became delays.
Become the place leadership goes first for an accurate read on technology delivery status, risks, and open decisions.
Demonstrated an AI-forward and automated approach to this role: you have built, in a hands-on way, AI-enabled tools for planning, tracking, or reporting that the team uses every day.
After 1 year:
Turned the lessons from the first build into a repeatable delivery playbook for the next sites.
Kept execution steady as the CTPO organization grew from its first leaders to a full team.
Become a trusted partner to the CTPO and engineering leads on keeping priorities and tradeoffs visible.
EXPERIENCES, ATTRIBUTES AND MINDSET THAT INDICATE A GOOD MATCH
Experiences
7+ years in technical program management, including 3+ years on cross-functional programs for large-scale infrastructure at a hyperscaler, neocloud, or data center operator.
Delivered programs that spanned hardware, network, and software, such as new cluster or region launches, new hardware introductions, or data center bring-ups, against hard dates.
Experience working with senior leaders and external partners, including running workstreams in a joint program with a strategic technology partner.
Attributes
You are outcome driven and hands-on. You build your own plans, dashboards, and tools, and you use AI and automation by default. This is a builder's seat, not a supervisory one.
You are technical enough to be useful. You can follow an engineering tradeoff on fabric design or cluster bring-up and know which question to ask.
You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. You absorb ambiguity and navigate complexity rather than passing it along.
Mindset
You are skeptical by default. \"On track\" is a hypothesis until the dependency owner shows you the evidence.
You deliver through discipline, not heroics. You build the process that makes the next launch boring.
You are AI-agentic first. Fluent with AI agents, or committed to becoming so quickly, you embed them as first principles in how you and your team work, defaulting to agentic workflows before adding headcount or process.
Nice to have (Preferred, not required):
Technical program management at a hyperscaler (Google, Meta, Microsoft, AWS) or a neocloud (CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe).
Experience delivering TPU, GPU, or other accelerator clusters, including new product introduction.
Experience in an office of the CTO, chief of staff, or business operations role supporting a technology executive.
Familiarity with data center power, cooling, and capacity planning.
An engineering degree, or a PMP or similar program management certification.
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been estimated based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
About Crux
We offer generous base, bonus and additional incentive based compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Company-paid life insurance and disability
Full suite of other optional benefits
401(k) Plan with 4% company match
Hybrid schedule offering four days in-office collaboration paired with one remote workday for focused, individual work