Crusoe
AI Infrastructure
PrincipalNetworkArchitect
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“Principal Network Architect at Crusoe. Skills: Network architecture, Data center networking, SDN, Kubernetes networking. Define network architecture strategy. Own network architecture strategy”
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12+ years network engineering, 5+ years leadership role, 500+ switches design, Expert routing knowledge, Production SDN controller experience, Hands-on Kubernetes networking, Software engineering fundamentals, Exceptional written skills, Exceptional verbal skills
Nice to Have
Hyperscaler experience, AI cloud provider experience, HPC center experience, Large-scale co-location operator experience, SONiC OS experience, P4 programmable data planes experience, SRv6 experience, Silicon knowledge, Open source contributions, Formal network verification tools experience, eBPF-based networking experience, eBPF-based observability experience
What You'll Do.
Define network architecture strategy
Own network architecture strategy
Design bare-metal data center switching
Design RDMA interconnects
Design SDN control planes
Design Kubernetes networking
Design cloud-layer overlays
Own end-to-end network architecture
Design spine-leaf fabrics
Design out-of-band management
Design RDMA interconnects
Design inter-campus WAN
Design SDN control plane architectures
Evolve SDN control plane architectures
Define network policies
Define multi-cluster service mesh
Define BGP peering architecture
Architect IBN frameworks
Translate goals into configurations
Establish infrastructure-as-code practices
Establish GitOps provisioning
Establish validation pipelines
Define authoritative data models
Ensure version-controlled policies
Design day-0 automation
Design day-1 automation
Design day-2 automation
Define streaming telemetry architecture
Define intent verification
Define closed-loop remediation
Establish engineering standards
Establish reference architectures
Lead architecture reviews
Author design documents
Present proposals to leadership
Mentor senior network engineers
Mentor staff network engineers
Grow technical breadth
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-organizational influence; Engineering leadership alignment; Product leadership alignment
Communication Scope
Technical documentation; Design proposals
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full 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: Crusoe is looking for a Principal Network Architect to define and own the network architecture strategy across our entire infrastructure stack, spanning bare-metal data center switching fabrics and RDMA interconnects to SDN control planes, Kubernetes networking, and cloud-layer overlays. As the industry's first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, Crusoe operates at a scale that few companies can match, including a 1.2 GW hyperscale campus in Abilene, TX powering the Stargate project. This is a high-impact, principal-level individual contributor role reporting directly to the Director of Networking, with broad technical authority and cross-organizational influence. In this role, you'll do more than solve today's problems; you'll build the architecture that runs the AI infrastructure o
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