Staff Applied AI Engineer
Crusoe — Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel · In-Person · Staff+
Role description
Role Overview
Join Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As a Staff Applied AI Engineer, you will partner with customers to deploy, optimize, and scale their models into production, owning the technical journey end to end.
What You Will Do
Scope workloads, define metrics, build benchmarks, lead technical POCs, serve as technical lead for customer engineering teams, tune engines, profile and diagnose bottlenecks, own customer onboarding, deployment, autoscaling, capacity planning, and SLO monitoring, optimize configurations, feed field insights back into product roadmaps, and contribute code to the inference engine and tooling.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You will be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, help customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and do the most meaningful work of your career.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a technical role with strong programming and production skills (Kubernetes, Docker, GPU servers)
- Proven ability to lead technical discussions with customer engineers and leadership
- Hands-on experience with inference engines (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM) and performance profiling
- Strong command of KV-cache tuning, batching, parallelism, quantization, and related cost math
- Solid knowledge of the open-source model landscape and hardware-model matching
- Experience as an FDE, solutions engineer, or inference engineer at an AI cloud, lab, or provider
- Hands-on background in fine-tuning/post-training (LoRA, SFT, DPO) or contributions to open-source engines
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package designed to support financial security, health, and overall well-being
- Pension contributions
- Additional perks to support work-life balance