Senior Project Engineer - Spark Deployments

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence . As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

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About This Role

Crusoe's Spark Business Unit is scaling deployment of the company's modular power and compute infrastructure across multiple sites. This role sits within the Digital Infrastructure Group's Engineering team, dedicated full-time to Spark deployment execution. You'll support project and site-level engineering across active deployments, coordinating with the design engineering function on mechanical, thermal, and controls scope while owning execution, site planning, and vendor coordination at the project level. This role augments the team's general engineering capacity. This is an in-office role, five days a week, based out of one of Crusoe's office locations.

What You'll Be Working On

Support site layout, planning, design, and execution for small- to medium-scale data center deployment projects

Support the mechanical and controls design, specification, and equipment selection

Coordinate site-level infrastructure deployment methodologies, including chillers,transformers, UPS solutions etc…

Work with internal & external design and construction partners to execute projects, and coordinate with internal stakeholders

Support the mechanical and thermal rollout as Spark evolves from air-cooled baselines

to next-generation high-density liquid-cooled architectures, executing against designs

rather than authoring them Serve as a dedicated Spark deployment resource, for project-level engineering work.

What You'll Bring to the Team

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

5+ years of mechanical engineering experience with exposure to chilled water systems

and equipment, air cooling, and HVAC

Experience with control strategies and sequence of operations for mechanical systems

Industrial or mission critical experience is required

Data Center experience is preferred, but not required

Experience executing or managing chilled water system installations and central

equipment (chillers, pumps, etc) at the project or site level

Working proficiency with CAD tools (Revit, Navisworks, Bluebeam) for reviewing and

coordinating design documents

Working knowledge of relevant mechanical codes and standards (ICC, ASME B31.x,

ASHRAE guidelines, NFPA standards)

Comfortable partnering across hardware, software, design engineering, and construction teams to execute deployment projects on schedule

Bonus Points

Experience with modular building deployment or construction

Familiarity with BIM workflows and full-lifecycle drawing packages (30/60/90/100%)

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Benefits:

Competitive compensation and equity packages

Restricted Stock Units

Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs

Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance

Employer contributions to HSA account

Paid parental leave

Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

Professional development & tuition reimbursement

Mental health & wellness support

Commuter benefits (parking & transit)

Cell phone stipend

401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

Volunteer time off

Global travel insurance & emergency assistance

Daily meals allowance

Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $145,000 -$200,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.