Crusoe

AI Cloud Infrastructure Powered by Clean Energy — Sustainable Data Centers for AI/ML Workloads

The consensus on Crusoe: Choose Crusoe if you want to combine AI infrastructure work with genuine environmental impact and startup energy — but expect fast pace and evolving processes.

2018
Founded
Denver, CO
Headquarters
~800
Employees
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Culture Overview

What it's really like to work at Crusoe

Founded in 2018 by Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness, Crusoe builds AI cloud infrastructure powered by stranded and clean energy sources. The culture is mission-driven with a genuine focus on reducing the environmental footprint of compute. Expect a startup atmosphere where engineers wear many hats, ship fast, and tackle hard problems at the intersection of energy infrastructure and AI workloads.

Ship Fast Social Impact Many Hats Eng-Driven Equity
Glassdoor Ratings

Crusoe Glassdoor Ratings & Employee Reviews

4.3
Overall Glassdoor Score
Based on employee reviews
Culture & Values 4.5
Compensation & Benefits 4.2
Senior Management 4.0
Career Opportunities 4.0
Work-Life Balance 3.5
Overall Rating 4.3
~85% Recommend to a Friend
~85% CEO Approval (Chase Lochmiller)
Employee Review Themes

Working at Crusoe: Pros & Cons

✓ What employees love

  • ✓ Unique mission combining AI compute with clean energy — employees feel genuine environmental impact
  • ✓ Strong compensation and equity with startup energy and rapidly growing resources

✗ What could be better

  • ✗ Startup pace means long hours and ambiguity — not for people who want strict 9-to-5
  • ✗ Rapid scaling creates process gaps, shifting priorities, and some organizational chaos
Engineering Culture

How the engineering team works

Tech Stack

Python Go Kubernetes CUDA

Infrastructure Focus

Builds and operates GPU cloud infrastructure at scale, with deep expertise in data center design, energy systems, and high-performance computing for AI workloads.

Careers

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Team Structure

Fast-moving, eng-driven teams with high ownership. Engineers work across the full stack from hardware infrastructure to cloud platform software.

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Community Sentiment

What the community says about Crusoe

Mixed Sentiment 5 mentions from Hacker News & Reddit · Updated 2026-04-10
“I think its a real interesting challenge, from a hacker perspective. How do you bootstrap a culture, that spirals into this minima, to recover and redevelop a interest in science and cultural development, without external intervention or enforcement.”
Hacker News ItCouldBeWorse · 2025-06-19 View thread →
“This is one of those papers that quietly reorients the whole debate. Instead of treating equality as a cosmic accounting problem (“compensate brute luck, penalize choice”), she argues that this framing predictably turns into stigma, paternalism, and weird moral surveillance of...”
Hacker News foster_nyman · 2026-01-06 View thread →
“I've read thousands of books. There are good novels everywhere, and no country has the exclusivity of any theme.> One is the depiction of desolation and human loneliness before the American continent was developed into a prosperous land.”
Hacker News idoubtit · 2026-01-04 View thread →
“I worked at Transmeta. I remember for the launch of one of the Crusoe-powered laptops, there was a bug that prevented the BIOS from booting Linux. Since the laptop was only going to run Windows ME, they didn’t fix it.”
Hacker News MikeNotThePope · 2025-11-12 View thread →

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