Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, NPI

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 the Role NVIDIA Vera Rubin deployments begin in early 2027. We are hiring the Senior Staff TPM who will own that generation introduction. Not manage a workstream inside it, but define and drive the entire NPI engagement model from chip vendor engagement through first customer cluster delivery. This is a generation-level program, not a SKU-level one. Vera Rubin represents a fundamental architectural transition: new networking topology, new storage implications, new commissioning gate framework, and compounding cross-SKU dependencies running in parallel with active production deployments. The Senior Staff TPM owns all of that: the technical depth to define what the NPI model should look like, the organizational influence to make it happen across engineering, hardware partners, and DC operations, and the portfolio awareness to protect active production programs while standing up a new generation. If you have spent your career running NPI programs at a hyperscaler or leading neocloud, understand GPU architecture at the generation level, and have shaped NPI frameworks rather than just operated within them, this is the role. What You’ll Be Working On Generation-Level NPI Ownership - Own the Vera Rubin generation introduction end-to-end: chip vendor and OEM dependencies, architecture updates (networking topology, storage), cloud foundations work, commissioning gate framework definition, and first customer cluster delivery as the success metric. - Define the NPI engagement model for a new GPU generation: what changes architecturally from Grace Blackwell to Vera Rubin, what the commissioning gate framework needs to look like, and where standard hyperscaler NPI processes are broken and need redesign. - Lead NPI Phase 0 on the Cloud TPM side: define firmware version targets and DOCA targets before kickoff, set commissioning gate criteria (G0–G6), name the DRI matrix, and publish the node allocation plan with block-scheduled tasks. - Manage compounding cross-SKU dependencies where active B200/GB300 production programs are running in parallel with Vera Rubin NPI, and prevent them from competing for the same specialist pool without a plan. Portfolio-Level Technical Leadership - Maintain portfolio-level situational awareness across NPI programs, active production deployments, and cloud foundations work, holding an accurate mental model of cross-domain risks and dependencies without being in the weeds of every program simultaneously. - Integrate infrastructure economics with program decisions: how a GPU generation transition affects the capacity plan, how a commissioning gate failure cascades into customer commitment delays, how a firmware lifecycle choice has direct revenue implications. - Evolve the Site Operations PM to Cloud TPM engagement model as Crusoe scales from current deplo