--- title: 'Senior Staff Commissioning Engineer, Electrical at Crusoe' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-commissioning-engineer-electrical-crusoe-dallas-18f4na5q911m' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Senior Staff Commissioning Engineer, Electrical at Crusoe - **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe) - **Location:** Dallas, TX / United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-12 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/crusoe/a0b9f5c4-10b1-447f-961d-63ebd22f0da8 ## 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. Location: San Francisco, Denver or Dallas (50% Travel) ## About This Role As a Senior Staff Commissioning Engineer, you will serve as a campus and multi-campus technical authority for commissioning across Crusoe's data center portfolio. You own outcomes across projects — setting technical direction for the electrical discipline, governing the commissioning program itself, and serving as the trusted resource for the highest-impact, most technically complex decisions that shape site outcomes. You operate as a "Master of Discipline": the escalation point of last resort, the standard-setter for trade partner and CxA performance, and a force multiplier who elevates every engineer around you. This role blends deep technical mastery with programmatic ownership, commercial fluency, and executive-level communication that builds client and stakeholder confidence in Crusoe. ## What You'll Be Working On Multi-Campus Strategic Leadership - Provide high-level commissioning oversight and direction across multiple campuses, ensuring operational alignment, cohesive strategy, and exceptional client relations across the portfolio. - Drive consistency in commissioning execution across sites, identifying cross-project patterns, recurring issues, and systemic risks, and translating lessons learned into program-level change. - Represent Crusoe Commissioning (CCx) in cross-functional governance forums, leadership reviews, and client-facing engagements, translating technical complexity into clear business impact. Technical Authority & Decision-Making - Serve as the "Master of Discipline" for electrical systems — responsible for high-impact, technically complex decisions that shape site outcomes, including energization readiness, acceptance testing, and risk-based deviations. - Act as the recognized escalation authority for complex technical issues across all project phases, rapidly resolving problems that span disciplines, vendors, and project boundaries. - Own technical sign-offs across project boundaries, and maintain exceptional customer communication that builds confidence in Crusoe's delivery. - Maintain comprehensive understanding of building systems — power distribution, EPMS, controls, and mechanical interfaces — including power generation systems and how they interact with the data center. Programmatic Process Ownership - Own the development and continuous improvement of the commissioning program: create, pilot, deploy, and validate new and improved processes, standards, and governance documents (e.g., FWT program, deficiency management, script library governance). - Conduct QA audits and drive root cause analysis on systemic issues; establish the frameworks by which program quality is measured and improved. - Define what "good" looks like across the L0–L6 lifecycle and drive adoption of improvements across Crusoe portfolio. Quoting & Financial Oversight - Support CCx with all quoting activities, taking a lead role in financial accuracy, bid leveling, and the strategic pursuit of new business. - Manage program-level CxA and vendor commercial outcomes — scope development, change order review, and performance-based accountability. - Bring deep contractual and risk understanding to protect the business in vendor negotiations and commissioning scope decisions. Trade Partner & CxA Performance - Manage and analyze trade partner and third-party commissioning agent execution to ensure high standards, accountability, and continuous improvement in external collaborations. - Set the performance bar for CxAs across the program, driving accountability across vendors through structured performance management, deliverable tracking, and data-driven scorecards. - Build long-term, trust-based partnerships with key external partners (clients, vendors, OEMs) at senior level. Mentorship & Team Elevation - Actively coach and develop team members across the organization, bridging the gap between current performance and exceptional. - Mentor engineers across all levels, develop next-level talent, and elevate the team around you to your own performance standard. - Anchor calibration and growth conversations in specific, observable behaviors, building the technical bench that scales with Crusoe's growth. ## What You'll Bring - 10+ years of experience in data center commissioning, construction, or critical infrastructure delivery, including demonstrated ownership at the campus, region and program level. - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field; equivalent commissioning experience considered (CxA certification a plus). - Mastery of the full commissioning lifecycle (L0 through L6), including the documentation, testing, and governance requirements at each phase. - Recognized subject matter expertise in electrical systems — power distribution, EPMS, protection and controls — with complete understanding of design, construction, and testing principles within the discipline, including power generation systems and their interaction with data center loads. - Proven track record developing, deploying, and governing commissioning programs, standards, and processes adopted across multiple projects or an organization. - Demonstrated commercial and contractual fluency: quoting, bid leveling, vendor scope and change order management, and program-level CxA performance management. - Experience managing and holding trade partners, CxAs, OEMs, and general/electrical/mechanical contractors accountable to scope, schedule, and quality across concurrent projects. - Strong executive communication skills — able to present independently to senior leadership and clients, and translate technical complexity into clear, data-driven business narratives. - A track record of mentoring and developing engineers, with measurable elevation of team performance. - Solid understanding of safety, compliance, and regulatory requirements within active construction and commissioning environments. - Willingness to travel to project sites as required (50% travel). 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 $175,000 -$215,000 + 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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