--- title: 'Head of Internal Audit at Crusoe' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-internal-audit-crusoe-san-francisco-1xcybe9drby4' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Head of Internal Audit at Crusoe - **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe) - **Location:** San Francisco, CA / United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/crusoe/2a5ae7cb-6c58-4a86-a470-2bce2f9265cc ## Job description 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 This Role: Reporting to the Chief Accounting Officer, the Head of Internal Audit will play a critical role in building a best-in-class internal audit function that directly supports Crusoe’s strategic objectives. This role serves as the strategic architect of our risk management framework. We are looking for a high-integrity leader who can balance rigorous compliance with a forward-thinking, consultative approach to business processes. You will lead the internal audit function to ensure our financial, operational, and IT controls are robust, while providing the Executive Team and the Board with the insights needed to navigate a complex regulatory landscape. What You’ll Be Working On: - Strategic Oversight: Lead the execution of the annual audit plan across corporate shared services, ensuring alignment with business priorities. - Audit Lifecycle Management: Oversee all phases of the audit lifecycle, including risk assessment, planning, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up. - Advisory & Assurance: Guide teams delivering assurance and advisory engagements; review and approve audit planning, testing, and documentation for quality and consistency. - Risk Mitigation: Assess enterprise and business risks and recommend practical, effective mitigation strategies to senior leadership. - Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with leaders across the organization to develop action plans and drive the timely closure of audit findings. - Compliance & External Support: Oversee external audit assist testing, including conclusions and remediation support when required. - Operational Evolution: Provide ongoing audit and risk advisory guidance as Crusoe’s products, operations, and regulations evolve. - Resource Management: Manage budgets, timelines, and resource allocation to meet all audit commitments. - Team Development: Coach, mentor, and develop audit leaders and team members while fostering a culture of trust and professional growth. What You’ll Bring to the Team: - Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or equivalent experience. - Experience: 10+ years of accounting and/or audit experience, with a proven track record of leading complex audit engagements from planning through closure. - Methodological Expertise: Strong knowledge of risk management frameworks and internal audit methodologies. - Relationship Building: Proven ability to build collaborative relationships across functions and influence change through audit insights. - Communication: Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills; comfort delivering complex or difficult messages to senior leaders. - Leadership: Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities under tight timelines. - Safety and Compliance: This position is designated a safety-sensitive position and/or is located in a safety-sensitive facility. Drug and alcohol program participation is required. Bonus Points: - CPA, CIA, or similar professional certification. - Public accounting experience (Big 4 or similar). - Experience leading assurance and advisory work at the enterprise level. - Proven experience managing and developing other managers. - Ability to translate technical risk into clear, actionable business guidance. Benefits: - Competitive compensation - Restricted Stock Units - Paid time off & paid holidays - 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 Compensation Range: Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $240,000 - 275,000 + 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. ## About Crusoe ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Crusoe is an energy-first AI infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates hyperscale data centers and a cloud platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence workloads. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E) - **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, USA - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: AI Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Clean Energy - Target customers: Enterprise AI companies, AI-native startups, research institutions, government agencies (B2B) - **Mission**: "Accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence." ## Products & Services - **Crusoe Cloud**: An AI-optimized cloud platform purpose-built for AI workloads, featuring high-performance NVIDIA and AMD compute, accelerated storage, and optimized RDMA networking. Claims to deploy models up to 20x faster and cut costs by up to 81%. - **Crusoe Managed Inference**: A managed AI inference service built with Crusoe's proprietary MemoryAlloy technology, offering best-in-class speed, throughput, and reliability. Features the Crusoe Intelligence Foundry for model selection and API key management. - **AI Data Center Infrastructure**: Vertically integrated design, build, and operation of hyperscale AI factories (e.g., the 1.2 GW Stargate campus in Abilene, TX). Modular, scalable construction for power-hungry AI workloads. - **Crusoe Managed Kubernetes & Slurm**: Managed orchestration services that eliminate operational overhead for customers. - **Crusoe AutoClusters**: Fault-tolerant, managed cluster services for large-scale AI training. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company). - **Key Metric**: Raised over $1.8B+ in total funding (Series E in 2024 was $1B+; Series D in 2024 was $600M; Series C in 2021 was $350M). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: NVIDIA, NYDIG, GE Vernova, Redwood Materials, Tallgrass, AMD. The company has also partnered with leading energy and technology firms to power its data centers. - **Growth Signals**: Divested bitcoin mining business to NYDIG in 2023 to focus exclusively on AI infrastructure; broke ground on the 1.2 GW Stargate campus in Abilene, TX; expanded into Europe with a geothermal/hydro-powered deployment in Iceland; announced 1.8 GW Wyoming data center with Tallgrass; acquired GPU memory optimization startup Atero and established a Tel Aviv office. ## Competitive Advantages - **Energy-First Approach**: The company’s core differentiator is its vertical integration starting from energy sourcing. It uses "environmentally aligned power sources" (wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, natural gas with carbon capture) to power its AI factories, including pioneering technology to convert wasted natural gas into energy. - **Vertical Integration**: Controls the entire stack—from finding innovative energy sources to building and managing hyperscale data centers and operating the cloud platform. - **NVIDIA Partnership**: Close partnership with NVIDIA, providing access to the latest and highest-performance GPU hardware for its cloud and infrastructure. - **Proven Performance**: Claims 99.98% uptime, 100% customer satisfaction score, and significant cost/performance advantages (up to 81% cost reduction). ## Strategic Focus - **Massive Infrastructure Expansion**: Aggressively scaling its data center footprint, with major projects in Abilene, Texas (Stargate) and Wyoming (Tallgrass), and expansion into Europe. - **Deepening AI Cloud**: Continuing to build out its Crusoe Cloud platform with managed services (Kubernetes, Slurm, AutoClusters) to make it easier for AI companies to use their infrastructure. - **Responsible AI**: Emphasizing sustainability and responsible AI governance, as evidenced by achieving ISO 42001 certification and publishing an ESG report. - **Acquisition-led Growth**: Acquired Atero (GPU memory optimization) to enhance its core technology stack. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: The company is united by a tangible mission: "Accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence." Employees report high levels of engagement (92% proud to work there per internal survey). - **Massive Growth Trajectory**: Crusoe is at the center of the AI infrastructure boom, building some of the world's most powerful AI factories. For job seekers, this means exposure to cutting-edge technology and the opportunity to scale a company from a startup to an industry leader. - **Culture**: The company values "moving fast and making things," continuous learning, and collective genius. It describes itself as an "AI factory company" that values velocity and impact. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid/Office presence required in most roles. Office locations include: Denver (HQ), San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Tulsa, Dublin (Ireland), and Tel Aviv (Israel). - **Benefits**: Competitive compensation & equity, comprehensive health & wellness, mental health resources, retirement plans, paid time off, leave of absence programs, learning & development, volunteer time off, daily meals allowance, and other location-specific perks. - **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on technical excellence, working with large-scale systems, and pioneering new approaches to energy and infrastructure. The company values candidates' "AI fluency" in its hiring process. ## Sources 1. [crusoe.ai](https://www.crusoe.ai/) 2. [crusoe.ai/careers](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/careers) 3. [crusoe.ai/about/culture](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/careers/culture) 4. 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