Senior Software Engineer, CAPE
Crusoe · San Francisco, CA · Software engineering · posted 3 days ago
Crusoe · Sunnyvale, CA · posted 7 days ago
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| Employer | Crusoe |
|---|---|
| Location | Sunnyvale, California |
| Field | Technology › Data, analytics and AI |
| Level | not stated |
| Source category | Product and Design, Product and Design |
| Posted | 2026-11-02 (7 days ago) |
| Work arrangement | On-site at the location listed |
| Pay | Not published in the source listing |
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
About the Role:
Crusoe is hiring an AI Engineer for our Developer Relations Engineering team: an engineer who builds agentic AI systems and enjoys showing other developers how they work. You will build reference agents, open-source integrations, and sample applications on Crusoe Cloud and Crusoe Managed Inference.
In this role, you will lead technical content creation, community engagement, and developer outreach across AI infrastructure and managed services workloads. You will produce documentation, tutorials, white papers, sample applications, and video guides.
You will partner with the Product, Engineering, Research, and GTM/Solutions Engineering teams and work across the open-source agent ecosystem.
You will spend most of your time building and then sharing what you build.
What You'll Be Working On:
Agentic Reference Systems: Architect and ship end-to-end reference agents and starter kits on Crusoe that developers can use as a starting point for production, covering tool use, MCP, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, structured outputs, memory, and evals.
Examples & Documentation: Own the code examples, tutorials, and documentation that help developers go from first API call to working agent, and keep them tested and up to date as the ecosystem changes.
Open Source & GitHub: Own Crusoe's developer-facing GitHub presence, including examples, cookbooks, and integrations. Contribute upstream to agent frameworks, inference engines, and developer tooling (for example LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, the OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, vLLM, and SGLang) so they work well with Crusoe.
Technical Content & Video: Turn the systems you build into content developers rely on: deep-dive blog posts, notebooks, YouTube videos, livestreams, and short technical clips.
Building in Public: Share your work on X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Discord, Reddit, Hacker News, etc. Answer technical questions, review community projects, and become a trusted technical voice in the agent and open-source community.
Use-Case Blueprints: Partner with GTM/Solutions Engineering to spot recurring customer patterns and turn them into open reference architectures for developer segments such as Physical AI, robotics, simulation, and other industry verticals.
Product & Research Partnership: Join Product, Engineering, and Research workflows. Test features and models before launch, make sure samples and docs are ready on launch day, and bring developer friction back as concrete product input, following each issue until it is fixed or explicitly deprioritized.
Talks & Workshops: Give technical talks, live demos, and hands-on labs at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and workshops.
What You'll Bring to the Team:
Engineering Experience: 5+ years as a software engineer, ML engineer, applied AI engineer, forward-deployed engineer, or in a similar hands-on engineering role, with strong Python. A Developer Relations title is not required.
Engineering Credibility: Ability to earn credibility with both AI infrastructure engineers and ML/AI engineers.
Agentic AI: Hands-on experience building LLM applications and agents with tool calling, MCP, retrieval, memory, and evaluation, using one or more frameworks such as LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, or the OpenAI Agents SDK. You have well-formed opinions about what works and what breaks in production.
Cloud Infrastructure: Experience working with cloud computing platforms (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure) or managed AI solutions, with a foundational understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts.
Inference & Model Serving: Working knowledge of how models are served, including OpenAI-compatible APIs, open-weight models, and serving engines such as vLLM or SGLang. You can explain cost and latency tradeoffs credibly.
Public Track Record: Evidence of sharing technical work in public through GitHub repos, open-source contributions, blog posts, videos, talks, or an active technical presence on social platforms. Please include links when you apply.
Technical Communication: Strong communication skills across written and verbal formats, including technical documentation, white papers, video explainers, and presentation decks.
Ownership & Collaboration: You work well across teams, set your own priorities, and ship in a fast-moving environment.
Travel Requirement: Ability to travel up to 20%.
Education: Bachelor's/Master's/PhD degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
Bonus Points
Maintainer or significant contributor to an open-source AI, agent, or inference project
Experience producing technical video content such as YouTube tutorials, livestreams, or screencasts
Experience fine-tuning or post-training open-weight models (SFT/RL/LoRA)
An existing technical audience that trusts your views on models, agents, and tooling
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 $180,000-$220,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
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.
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How Sunnyvale compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, Sunnyvale is #37 by population, #12 for long commutes (#1 = fewest), #15 for household income (#1 = highest), #129 for rent (#1 = cheapest). Its county, Santa Clara County, is #1 of 58 counties for average pay ($197,043).
Sunnyvale has 154,236 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.4% of the population of California. It covers 22 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 6,992 people per square mile. The median age is 35.2, 7% younger than the state median (35.2 against 37.9).
The median gross rent is $3,039 a month (rent plus utilities), 49% above the state median ($3,039 against $2,036). Over a year that is 19.6% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $1,801,800, which is 9.7 times the median household income ($186,170); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 43.8% of households own their home, 22% below the state average (43.8% against 55.9%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.
The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan area has 1,134,970 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $84,050 a year, 65% above the national median ($84,050 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are computer and mathematical (149,970 jobs, median $186,320); management (115,110 jobs, median $210,750); business and financial operations (94,210 jobs, median $125,240). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (3.9 times) and architecture and engineering (2.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($210,750) and legal ($195,190). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Santa Clara County was 4.2%. 72.4% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Santa Clara County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.
Among workers, 53.7% drive alone, 4.0% use public transit, 1.6% walk, 29.2% work from home. 9.0% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 54% below the state average (9.0% against 19.4%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.
69.3% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 87% above the state share (69.3% against 37.1%). 50.2% of residents were born outside the United States, 86% above the state share (50.2% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 5.8%, 52% below the state rate (5.8% against 12.0%).
The warmest month is Aug, averaging 68°F (19.8°C), and the coolest is Jan at 47°F (8.3°C). About 510 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (114 mm) and Jul the driest (0 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.
Closest cities in this guide: Mountain View (3 miles, similar rent); Santa Clara (4 miles, similar rent); Los Altos (4 miles, rent 15% higher); Cupertino (5 miles, rent 15% higher). Rent differences are against Sunnyvale; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.
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| Place ⇅ | Distance from the job city ⇅ | Median rent ⇅ | Median home value ⇅ | Median household income ⇅ | Commute 45+ min ⇅ | Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅ | Open jobs there ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyvale, CA | 0 mi | $3,039 | $1,801,800 | $186,170 | 9.0% | n/a | Jobs |
| Mountain View, CA | 3 mi | $3,062 | $1,927,000 | $189,917 | 9.3% | n/a | Jobs |
| Santa Clara, CA | 4 mi | $3,016 | $1,582,600 | $178,958 | 8.9% | n/a | Jobs |
| Los Altos, CA | 4 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 8.3% | n/a | — |
| Cupertino, CA | 5 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $234,707 | 9.1% | n/a | Jobs |
| Los Altos Hills, CA | 6 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 18.0% | n/a | — |
| Palo Alto, CA | 6 mi | $3,484 | $2,000,001 | $231,101 | 8.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| Saratoga, CA | 8 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 8.3% | n/a | — |
| Milpitas, CA | 8 mi | $3,120 | $1,251,700 | $178,798 | 15.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| East Palo Alto, CA | 8 mi | $2,244 | $1,102,600 | $113,493 | 9.7% | n/a | — |
| Newark, CA | 8 mi | $2,776 | $1,142,800 | $169,064 | 22.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| Campbell, CA | 8 mi | $2,737 | $1,617,000 | $145,268 | 10.4% | n/a | Jobs |
| Fremont, CA | 9 mi | $2,933 | $1,403,800 | $181,506 | 23.6% | n/a | Jobs |
| Menlo Park, CA | 9 mi | $3,239 | $2,000,001 | $210,025 | 11.5% | n/a | Jobs |
| Atherton, CA | 11 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 7.0% | n/a | — |
| Los Gatos, CA | 11 mi | $3,247 | $2,000,001 | $217,554 | 17.6% | n/a | — |
| San Jose, CA | 13 mi | $2,669 | $1,233,200 | $146,427 | 15.3% | n/a | Jobs |
| Redwood City, CA | 14 mi | $2,968 | $1,801,700 | $157,814 | 10.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| Union City, CA | 15 mi | $2,713 | $1,104,900 | $133,715 | 24.0% | n/a | — |
| San Carlos, CA | 15 mi | $2,854 | $2,000,001 | $237,470 | 14.9% | n/a | Jobs |
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How far Sunnyvale, CA is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.
| From ⇅ | Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅ | Population of that city ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | 13 mi | 990,138 |
| San Francisco, CA | 60 mi | 830,235 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 309 mi | 3,857,263 |
| San Diego, CA | 420 mi | 1,389,526 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 618 mi | 1,642,323 |
| Seattle, WA | 707 mi | 754,195 |
| Denver, CO | 939 mi | 718,877 |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 1,365 mi | 697,125 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 1,427 mi | 963,194 |
| San Antonio, TX | 1,457 mi | 1,479,835 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,458 mi | 1,307,930 |
| Austin, TX | 1,471 mi | 979,539 |
| Houston, TX | 1,614 mi | 2,328,253 |
| Chicago, IL | 1,841 mi | 2,711,226 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 1,932 mi | 885,860 |
| Columbus, OH | 2,097 mi | 914,802 |
| Charlotte, NC | 2,281 mi | 903,844 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2,348 mi | 977,670 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 2,506 mi | 1,579,706 |
| New York, NY | 2,559 mi | 8,483,844 |
| City ⇅ | Straight-line distance ⇅ | Open jobs ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| Palo Alto, CA | 6 mi | 298 |
| Milpitas, CA | 8 mi | 2 |
| Campbell, CA | 8 mi | 7 |
| Fremont, CA | 9 mi | 6 |
| San Jose, CA | 13 mi | 698 |
| Redwood City, CA | 14 mi | 45 |
| Belmont, CA | 17 mi | 2 |
| Pleasanton, CA | 21 mi | 6 |
| Alameda, CA | 28 mi | 38 |
| Capitola, CA | 29 mi | 1 |
| San Francisco, CA | 60 mi | 2,804 |
| Sacramento, CA | 87 mi | 53 |
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