Sr Staff TPM - Controls

About this role

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

As the Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager, Controls, you will serve as the commercial and procedural lead for an assigned portfolio of controls programs, executing against technical standards set by our Design and Deployment teams. This role is fundamental to Crusoe's mission: by managing vendor relationships across your program portfolio, structuring technical procurement, and getting deep enough into the engineering nuance to spot risk early, you keep our controls programs moving without exposing the business to preventable commercial or technical surprises.

This position demands someone comfortable operating in the technical weeds of controls execution (reading FAT results, understanding commissioning sequences, following the logic of a vendor's proposed architecture) without owning the underlying engineering decisions. You'll translate Design's technical standards into binding commercial scopes and hold vendors accountable to them across your portfolio. Your vantage point across the vendor ecosystem makes you a key voice in shaping vendor and commercial strategy for the program. Reporting directly to the Director of Controls, you'll work closely with Design and Deployment, staying ahead of technical direction and getting in front of financial status and program risk before they need to ask. This is a Full-Time position based in Denver, CO.

What You'll Be Working On

- Portfolio Technical Program Leadership: Direct controls-only initiatives across your assigned program portfolio, including vendor-built internal quality control applications, network and cybersecurity standardization rollouts, and R&D proof-of-concept deployments.

- Technical Procurement & Scoping: Own the external contracting interface with vendors and standardized RFQ processes for your portfolio, ensuring vendors are properly qualified, technically and financially, before they're brought into a program.

- Program Capacity & Supply Chain Coordination: Stay ahead of hardware pipelines (PLCs, IO modules, servers, switches) and vendor engineering labor pools across your program portfolio, getting into the technical specifics early enough to head off supply chain constraints, and surfacing enterprise-wide patterns to the Director of Controls.

- Financial & Milestone Governance: Manage milestone-based payment structures and change order (COR) processes within your portfolio, ensuring vendor payment stays tightly coupled to verified technical progress rather than self-reported status.

- Program Risk Reporting: Report financial status and program risk directly to the Director of Controls, getting ahead of vendor relationship bottlenecks with mitigation paths already in motion.

- Strategic Input: Bring vendor-ecosystem visibility to bear on program-level vendor and commercial strategy, partnering closely with the Director of Controls to shape approach, while technical direction remains set by Design.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely and meet frequently with Design and Deployment teams, staying engaged enough with the technical details to ask sharp questions and keep commercial terms aligned with engineering reality.

- Proactive Risk Mitigation: Continuously scan for risk across vendors, supply chain, and commercial terms within your program portfolio, including technical red flags worth escalating, and drive mitigation plans ahead of impact.

What You'll Bring to the Team

- Controls Program Experience: 10+ years of relevant experience in controls systems or tangential technical/commercial functions, including at least 5 years in mission-critical environments.

- Mission-Critical Expertise: Proven ability to manage scalable, vendor-driven programs in data center, high-availability, or industrial environments.

- Commercial & Technical Fluency: Deep familiarity with RFQ processes, vendor contracting, milestone-based payment structures, and change order governance, plus enough technical grounding in controls systems to engage credibly with Design and Deployment on execution nuance.

- Program Execution Leadership: Demonstrated ability to translate engineering standards into enforceable commercial scopes and communicate program risk clearly to senior leadership.

- Proactive Problem Solving: A track record of identifying program-level risk, technical or commercial, before it materializes, and driving cross-functional mitigation without waiting for direction.

- Mandatory Education: A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).

Bonus Points

- Hyperscale Program Experience: Prior experience running technical programs at hyperscale data center scale.

- SCADA/Controls Platform Depth: Hands-on

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