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title: 'Press Brake Operator at Crusoe'
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# Press Brake Operator at Crusoe

- **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe)
- **Location:** Arvada, CO / United States
- **Compensation:** $18–$29/hr
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/7422b0eb-b7c0-4713-854a-65221a44f874/application

**Skills:** Precision Measurement Tools, Micrometers, Calipers, Gauges, Lean Manufacturing, 5S Methodologies, Metal Properties Knowledge

> The Press Brake Operator operates press brake controls to bend, shape, and cut sheet metal and metal plates for manufacturing tools and equipment. Responsibilities include preparing materials, performing routine maintenance, inspecting product quality, and ensuring compliance with safety and production standards.

## 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: The Press Brake Operator uses a press brake to bend, shape, cut, and manipulate sheet metal and metal plates to manufacture tools, equipment, and other components. This role is crucial for producing high-quality metal parts that meet our production needs. The ideal candidate has the ability to safely operate or learn to operate press brake controls, follow instructions, and interpret product plans. This is a full-time position.

Available Shifts: Night Shift: Mon – Thur, 4:00 PM – 2:30 AM

What You’ll Be Working On:

- Press Brake Operation: Operates a press brake to manufacture tools, equipment, and other components from sheet metal or metal plates.
- Setup and Adjustment: Prepares, sets up, and adjusts the press brake as required by product plans and production schedules.
- Material Management: Ensures that there are sufficient raw materials available. Measures and aligns materials to be used.
- Quality Inspection: Inspects products, evaluating finished pieces for compliance with quality standards and specifications.
- Maintenance and Upkeep: Performs routine maintenance on the press brake. Maintains a clean work area.
- Other Duties: Performs other related duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

- Skills: Ability to safely and effectively operate or learn to operate press brake controls. Ability to follow instructions. Ability to read, interpret, and follow product plans. Basic computer and math skills.
- Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, & bend for 8 hours or more daily. Requires constant use of arms, hands, fingers, eyes, legs, and back.
- Drug/Alcohol Testing and Background Check: All job offers are contingent upon receiving a negative drug/alcohol test. Must be able to pass a background check.
- Random Drug Testing: This position is subject to random drug testing.
- Safety-Sensitive Designation: This position is designated a safety-sensitive position and/or is located in a safety-sensitive facility. Drug and alcohol program participation is required.
- Company Values: Our Company values speak to you, resonate with you, make sense to you and how you desire to work.
- Soft Skills: Must be detail oriented. Must be a team player willing to take on additional roles as needed. Have a good attitude and willingness to learn.

Bonus Points:

- Precision Measurement Skills: Proficiency with precision measuring tools (e.g., micrometers, calipers, gauges).
- Material Knowledge: Knowledge of different types of metals and their properties, as well as appropriate bending techniques for each.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing Principles: Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing or 5S methodologies.

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: Compensation will be paid in the range of $18-$29/hr + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Pay to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal pay and alignment with market data. (#INDMFG) 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. [crusoe.ai/about/company](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/company)

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