--- title: 'Senior HSE Specialist at Crusoe' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-hse-specialist-crusoe-arvada-kveymxrd206w' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Senior HSE Specialist at Crusoe - **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe) - **Location:** Arvada, CO / United States - **Compensation:** $97k–$117k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-03-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/d3cebc93-f12c-416a-aca9-1cdb507cc13c/application **Skills:** HSE Rules and Regulations, MS Office Suite, Google Suite, Risk Assessment, Incident Investigation, Root Cause Analysis, Compliance Monitoring, Manufacturing Experience, ISO-certified Manufacturing Environment, Electrical Safety Standards, NFPA 70E, Heavy Industrial Operations > The Senior HSE Specialist supports manufacturing facilities by assessing risks, developing HSE processes, and ensuring regulatory compliance. The role involves conducting incident investigations, facilitating training, and serving as a liaison with external agencies to promote a strong safety culture. ## 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 the Role: Crusoe is seeking an experienced and proactive Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Specialist to join our expanding team. Based in Arvada, you'll be an integral member supporting the manufacturing facility. This role is crucial for partnering with local management to establish and continuously improve HSE performance, processes, and culture. The ideal candidate will possess a high degree of technical safety understanding with a specific focus on manufacturing activities, paired with excellent communication and solutions-focused collaboration skills. This is a full-time position. What You'll Be Working On: - Risk Assessment and Reduction: Proactively assess risks to workers across the worksites and develop clear, actionable recommendations to reduce risk as appropriate. - Program Development & Implementation: Develop and implement various HSE processes, procedures, work instructions, and checklists, ensuring consistent application across the facility. - Compliance Monitoring: Monitor compliance with all relevant federal and state regulations, company policies, and established procedures. - Strategic Reporting: Monitor and report on key HSE objectives and metrics, ensuring that HSE is an integral part of Management discussions, objectives, and priorities. - Incident Management: Facilitate thorough incident investigations and lead root cause analysis efforts following any failures, incidents, or accidents. Actively monitor and follow up on the status of corrective actions and reports. - Auditing and Liaison: Plan and assist with compliance audits and self-assessments. You will also serve as a key liaison with various external agencies regarding HSE issues. - Training & Culture Development: Coordinate and actively participate in the HSE training of personnel. You will develop and maintain a high level of HSE awareness and a proactive culture through consistent communications and promotion of program involvement. - Documentation Control: Ensure that the relevant HSE documentation is meticulously maintained, updated, and readily available at the worksites, staying ahead of new HSE requirements. What You'll Bring to the Team: - Experience & Education: A minimum of 5-7+ years of relevant industry experience is required. Manufacturing experience is preferred. A university degree is preferred, but equivalent experience will be considered. - Technical Knowledge: Proven technical knowledge of various HSE rules and regulations at both the Federal and State levels. Direct experience with the hands-on implementation of HSE rules, regulations, policies, and procedures is a must. - Core Skills: Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and strong computer skills, including proficiency in both MS Office Suite and Google Suite. - Legal Work Status: Candidates must be able to legally work and reside in the US, without requiring sponsorship. - 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. Must be able to pass a background check. Bonus Points: - Professional certifications such as CSP, ASP, or OHST. - Experience supporting HSE programs in an ISO-certified manufacturing environment. 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 $102,000 - $124,000 + 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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