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# Shop Foreman at Crusoe

- **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe)
- **Location:** Brighton, CO / United States
- **Compensation:** $83k–$95k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/f05ca800-e9ca-46ac-b09b-8c9058331ac9/application

**Skills:** Lean Manufacturing, Electrical Design, Mechanical Design, Manufacturing Supervision, Project Management, Safety Compliance, Production Scheduling, Master Electrician

> The Shop Foreman supervises assembly and electrical integration leads and technicians, overseeing the manufacturing of modular data centers and power distribution centers. This role involves managing project performance metrics, driving Lean Manufacturing improvements, and leading a high-performing production team w...

## 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: As our Shop Foreman, you'll supervise and coordinate the activities of assembly leads and technicians, ensuring compliance with company policies and safety regulations. You'll foster a quality workforce by cultivating a respectful, positive work environment that prioritizes relationships and puts people first. You'll also oversee the end-to-end manufacturing process for modular data centers and power distribution centers across 5 assembly lines within our new, world-class facility.

What You’ll Be Working On:

- Project Management: Provide overall management for an assigned project, including achieving performance metrics for safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost.
- Lean Manufacturing: Drive the application of Lean Manufacturing tools and concepts to achieve measurable and sustainable improvements to an assigned project.
- Production Scheduling & Strategy: Develop and execute project strategy, production schedules, and resource plans aligned with production bid hours.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and grow production team members to build a high performing, and engaged workforce.
- Operational Reporting: Monitor and report on key operational Inputs (e.g., safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost).
- Personnel Oversight: Oversee assigned manufacturing personnel, ensuring alignment, engagement, development, and retention of talent.
- Safety & Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence consistent with Crusoe Mission Critical values.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering, Supply Chain, Project Management, and other departments to drive alignment and seamless execution of projects.
- Stakeholder & Vendor Relations: Build and maintain positive, collaborative relationships with internal teams, customers, suppliers, and vendors, turning them into long-term partners and advocates.
- Project Accountability: Accountable for all aspects of an assigned project, including processes, procedures, equipment, and execution strategies.
- Strategic Coordination: Coordinate with the Director of Manufacturing to provide strategic and tactical input on manufacturing support and execution.
- Manufacturing Reviews & Estimating: Participate in project production hour estimating, designed for manufacturability reviews, and risk assessments for project pursuits.
- Process & Safety Development: Develop and implement manufacturing processes, including hazard analysis, safety procedures, and team member skill assessments.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

- Technical Responsibilities: Performs technical responsibilities within a manufacturing environment.
- Process Improvement: Contributes to the development and improvement of concepts, techniques and procedures.
- Task Coordination: Coordinates own tasks with a specific range of responsibilities under established procedures.
- Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to a team under general supervision of an experienced professional or manager.
- Design Specialization: Skilled specialist with electrical and mechanical designs.
- Role Requirements: Role specific skills and experience required.
- Problem Solving & Initiative: Requires judgment or initiative in resolving issues and making recommendations.
- Crew Supervision: Supervision and guidance of crews.
- 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:

- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Manufacturing MDC or PDC equipment
- Familiarity with Mechanical designs

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: Compensation will be paid in the range of $100,000 - $115,000. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity 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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