Principal Product Manager, AI Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Define the 2–4 year vision and roadmap for Crusoe’s networking foundation, from fleet-wide architecture through fabric design.
• Own long-term network vendor-management strategy, cost structure, and capital allocation.
• Set performance, reliability, scalability, and cost targets, including cost per GPU and server.
• Own cross-data-center and multi-site connectivity strategy, network topology, and failure-domain design.
• Drive NIC, DPU, switch, and networking technology strategy, including evaluation of hardware generations and vendors.
• Identify architectural limitations and prioritize investments to resolve them.
• Partner with Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture on technical tradeoffs, product requirements, and business rationale for foundational investments.
• Represent networking foundations in leadership reviews and translate architecture and vendor tradeoffs into decision documents.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of technical product management experience or product-focused infrastructure engineering experience, with ownership of architecture-level outcomes at Principal or equivalent scope.
• Subject-matter expertise in networking and credibility with senior infrastructure engineers and architects.
• Experience with fleet-wide network architecture, topology design, and failure-domain strategy at scale.
• Experience managing long-term vendor strategy and evaluating in-house software engineering investment for core networking infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure economics at scale, including cost per unit and capacity planning.
• Analytical approach to multi-year infrastructure decisions.
• Exceptional communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs to engineering leaders and executives.
• Direct experience with RDMA fabrics such as InfiniBand or RoCE and GPU cluster networking for AI training or inference.

Nice-to-Haves

• Data center network design experience, including cross-data-center and multi-site connectivity.
• Familiarity with networking silicon, NIC, and switch vendors serving AI infrastructure.
• Experience managing or mentoring product managers.

Compensation and Benefits

• Compensation range of $285,000–$335,000 plus bonus.
• Restricted Stock Units included in all offers.
• Paid time off, paid holidays, and leave programs.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer HSA contributions.
• Paid parental leave.
• Life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Commuter benefits, cell phone stipend, and 401(k) match up to 4% of salary.
• Volunteer time off, global travel insurance, emergency assistance, daily meal allowance, and location-specific programs.