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

We're looking for a People Research Scientist to join our People Science and Workforce Intelligence team. You'll be the research lead for the wider People organization bringing scientific rigor to the questions that matter most as Crusoe scales: how well do we hire, what makes people stay, grow and do great work here, and which of our investments actually make a difference.

The role sits where organizational science, behavioral research and people strategy meet. You'll build frameworks and run systematic research that shape people decisions at one of the fastest-growing companies in AI infrastructure.

You'll study a workforce few people science teams ever see. Our workforce spans a high-growth tech company, a distributed manufacturing operation, and a field organization building and running data centers internationally.

What You'll Be Working On

Own research design and scientific inquiry

Form and test hypotheses about people programs, employee behavior and workforce outcomes using rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental methods.

Run longitudinal studies to learn what creates long-term success, engagement, and retention as we scale.

Synthesize external research and industry evidence on people interventions to find best practices and gaps.

Partner cross-functionally to design and run systematic studies on employee experience, manager effectiveness and organizational health across corporate, engineering and field teams.

Apply sound research ethics and data privacy practices to all employee research.

Program effectiveness and impact

Build evaluation plans into people programs from the start, including onboarding, manager development, learning, recognition, and retention or compensation programs.

Estimate program impact using quasi-experimental methods such as staged rollouts, difference-in-differences, matching and regression discontinuity.

Define success measures and leading indicators that tie people programs to business outcomes such as time to productivity, retention of critical talent, and site readiness.

Give clear recommendations on what to scale, change or stop.

Selection science and hiring research

Partner with Talent Acquisition to design and validate structured interviews

Run validation studies that link hiring signals to on-the-job performance and retention.

Monitor adverse impact and fairness across hiring stages, and advise on legally defensible, job-related selection practices.

Evaluate any AI-assisted hiring tools for validity, fairness and candidate experience before and after rollout.

Act as a POC for assessment vendor relationships where scale/speed require additional support.

Employee listening and survey research

Help scale Crusoe's listening strategy, including engagement, pulse and lifecycle surveys.

Use psychometric methods to validate survey instruments and make sure measurement is reliable across job families and locations.