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Salary: USD 230,000 - 280,000 / annual
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates the full stack from energy generation through AI workload delivery. The company is solving the power bottleneck constraining AI compute abundance through an energy-first approach.
The Capacity Planning & Efficiency team operates at the critical intersection of all Crusoe products, services, and physical infrastructure. This is the most senior individual contributor role in capacity planning—a Staff/Principal-level position that sets the strategic foundation all other planning functions execute against.
In this role, you will own the multi-year capacity strategy that shapes Crusoe's infrastructure roadmap: decisions about where to build, what to buy versus lease versus partner for, which technology transitions to bet on and when, and how much speculative capacity to carry ahead of signed demand. You will be the technical authority the executive staff, board, and capital partners rely on for the capacity narrative.
Key responsibilities include:
- Capacity Strategy: Define Crusoe's multi-year capacity posture across build/lease/partner decisions, regional siting, technology transition timing, fleet refresh economics, and speculative capacity levels.
- Capital Deployment: Own the analysis behind Crusoe's largest infrastructure commitments, frame options, quantify downside, and make recommendations the exec staff acts on.
- Allocation Policy: Own the policy governing how scarce capacity is allocated across customers, products, and regions, making contested calls that cannot be resolved in planning cycles.
- Planning Methodology & Standards: Define how planning is executed across the function—models, taxonomy, horizons, accuracy standards, and review bars—and hold all planners to those standards.
- Executive & Board Narrative: Own the capacity story told to executives, the board, lenders, and investors, translating a physically constrained build plan into numbers and confidence intervals those audiences need.
- Supply Strategy: Co-own Crusoe's strategic supply posture with Supply Chain, including allocation negotiations with silicon and system vendors, multi-sourcing strategy, and long-lead commitments.
- Product & Commercial Influence: Bring capacity economics into product and pricing decisions—what Crusoe should sell, in what shape, on what commitment terms, given what it can build and at what cost.
- Function Maturity & Technical Leadership: Define the multi-year roadmap for capacity planning maturity at Crusoe and raise the bar across the team through mentoring, review standards, and hiring/leveling decisions.
You will work at the intersection of infrastructure, supply chain, capital strategy, and commercial strategy, directly supporting Crusoe's mission to align the future of computing with environmental sustainability.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 12+ years in infrastructure capacity planning, IBP/S&OP, supply and demand planning, or infrastructure strategy, including at least one tour owning planning strategy for a large fleet (not just executing someone else's plan).
- Track record behind large infrastructure commitments: build versus lease analysis, depreciation and residual value strategy, and discipline to be clear about what you do not know when the number is very large.
- Technical fluency across compute, storage, network, accelerated computing, and power/site constraints that gate deployment, plus genuine depth in at least one domain (specialists should treat you as a peer, not just a planner).
- Executive presence: owned the number in front of a board, investment committee, or lender, and held up under questioning. Structured narrative, crisp documentation, and presentations that turn complex plans into decisions made in the room.
- Direct experience in strategic allocation and commitment conversations with silicon vendors, system integrators, or hyperscale suppliers.
- Expert-level Excel or Google Sheets modeling, plus judgment to know when a model should become a system. You build models others can inherit, audit, and run without you.
- Technical leadership without authority: raised the standard of work on a team you did not manage; can point to planners or engineers who are better at their craft because of you.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Mathematics, Data Science, or equivalent technical field.
BONUS:
- Built a capacity or integrated planning function from nothing into a cadence the company trusted.
- Time on the supply side (hyperscaler, OEM/ODM, or silicon vendor), seeing allocation from the other side of the table.
- Experience with cloud pricing, packaging, or capacity-backed commercial structures (reserved and committed-use contracts).
- Formal background in operations research, optimization, or simulation applied to constrained allocation at scale.
