Crusoe Salary

💰 $145K–$231K salary range

Median: $178K  ·  Based on 303 public Crusoe job postings  ·  Updated October 23, 2026

This Crusoe salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Highest-paying open roles at Crusoe

• Senior Account Executive, AI Labs — $300K–$400K · Cloud Go-To-Market (GTM)
• Enterprise Account Executive — $300K–$400K · Cloud Go-To-Market (GTM)
• Vice President, Product Management, Managed AI — $345K–$385K · Product and Design
• Senior Director, Fleet Management — $325K–$370K · Cloud Engineering
• Vice President, Information Technology — $330K–$360K · IT, Compliance, and Security
• Senior Director, Analytics & Data Science — $310K–$355K · Strategic Initiatives
• Principal Systems Software Architect — $260K–$340K · Cloud Engineering
• Principal Product Manager, AI Infrastructure (Networking) — $285K–$335K · Product and Design
• Principal Product Manager, AI Infrastructure (Storage) — $285K–$335K · Product and Design
• Principal Product Manager, Bare Metal — $285K–$335K · Product and Design

Crusoe salary by department

• cloud engineering: $238K median · $370K top base — Senior Director, Fleet Management (view JD) (67 roles)
• product and design: $238K median · $385K top base — Vice President, Product Management, Managed AI (view JD) (9 roles)
• cto office: $213K median · $300K top base — Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Experience (view JD) (9 roles)
• strategic initiatives: $203K median · $355K top base — Senior Director, Analytics & Data Science (view JD) (11 roles)
• real estate (dig): $193K median · $285K top base — Senior Director, Portfolio Management (view JD) (5 roles)
• accounting and finance: $178K median · $275K top base — Director, Finance - Cost Analytics (view JD) (32 roles)
• marketing: $178K median · $300K top base — Senior Director, Developer Advocacy (view JD) (9 roles)
• it, compliance, and security: $166K median · $360K top base — Vice President, Information Technology (view JD) (16 roles)

Crusoe engineering & product salary by seniority

• Mid: $145K median · $240K top base — Project Executive (view JD) (13)
• Senior: $183K median · $210K top base — Senior Software Engineer, Security (view JD) (32)
• Staff: $238K median · $340K top base — Principal Systems Software Architect (view JD) (60)

Crusoe engineering & product management salary

• Manager: $238K median · $300K top base — Senior Manager, Engineering - AI Inference (view JD) (13)
• Director+: $310K median · $385K top base — Vice President, Product Management, Managed AI (view JD) (9)

Crusoe salary by location

• San Francisco: $201K median · $385K top base — Vice President, Product Management, Managed AI (view JD) (138 roles)
• Denver: $155K median · $285K top base — Senior Director, Portfolio Management (view JD) (55 roles)
• Dallas: $155K median · $240K top base — Project Executive (view JD) (13 roles)
• New York: $150K median · $200K top base — Senior Solutions Engineer (view JD) (10 roles)
• Remote: $190K median · $235K top base — Electrical Field Engineer - Data Center (view JD) (5 roles)

Remote work at Crusoe

2% of Crusoe's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly. Remote roles run a $190K median vs $178K onsite.

What Crusoe looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Kubernetes (43) · Go (33) · Python (31) · GCP (25) · Terraform (24) · CI/CD (22) · Rust (21) · Java (21) · AWS (20) · Azure (20).

Benefits & perks at Crusoe

Commonly listed: dental (300) · 401k (300) · life-ins (300) · pto (300) · parental (300) · hsa-fsa (299) · learning (299) · commuter (298).

About Crusoe

Crusoe is Series E stage · 1,001–5,000 employees · founded 2018 · HQ Denver, Colorado. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Crusoe

Roles typically ask for around 7 years of experience (up to 20+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 89 that do, Bachelor's and Master's are most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 59% of these postings reference equity (rsu). Equity is not included in the medians above.

Crusoe total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 100% include commission; on-target earnings run about $215K where stated (9 roles); common structures: salaried, hourly. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Crusoe hiring activity

Crusoe has 303 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 303 public job postings with disclosed pay. 87 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (195 in the last 90).

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Common questions

What does Crusoe pay?
The median pay is $178K, with a typical range of $145K–$231K, based on 303 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Crusoe?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Senior Account Executive, AI Labs, at $300K–$400K base.

Which team pays the most at Crusoe?
The cloud engineering team, at a $238K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 303 public Crusoe job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed October 23, 2026.

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