IT Lead
We’re financing the future of energy
Crux is the capital platform for the clean economy. We modernize capital raising and deployment for clean energy and critical infrastructure with solutions across advisory, investments, technology, and intelligence.
Our team of 120+ is composed of experts in energy, tax, finance, government, and technology. We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others. These funds are joined by strategic investors including Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables, Intersect Power, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.
An inflection point in American energy and manufacturing
Energy demand is growing for the first time in decades, driving an urgent need for more affordable and reliable electricity. More electricity requires new clean energy infrastructure and strong domestic supply chains for minerals and components — as well as large amounts of capital.
Traditional project financing is opaque, fragmented, and analog. At Crux, we’re changing that. Through unmatched insights and expertise, white-glove service, purpose-built tools, and risk underwriting, we power a more prosperous, clean, and secure energy future.
We are scaling quickly and looking for team members who are eager to combine deep expertise with an AI- and tech-forward mindset.
About the Role
Crux is hiring an IT Lead to own all vendor procurement, contracts, provisioning, and IT strategy, as well as the full employee technology experience across software and hardware. If technology blocks or enables someone's work at Crux, this person owns it, including execution of security policy.
What You'll Do
Own employee SSO provisioning for new-hire onboarding as well as offboarding
Drive faster turnaround on SOC2 audit requests
Audit all systems, identify usage patterns, and find cost-cutting opportunities
Vendor renegotiation cadence
Device management & endpoint tooling
What We're Looking For
4–7 years of experience in IT at a high-growth startup, ideally as the sole or primary IT owner — not one of many on a team
Hands-on depth with the modern startup IT stack: Google Workspace, an MDM platform, an identity provider, SSO/SAML, and SaaS lifecycle tooling
Direct experience contributing to a SOC2 audit cycle: owning evidence, managing a control area, or running the program
Track record negotiating SaaS contracts and rationalizing vendor spend
Comfort managing a mixed Mac/Windows environment
Bias toward automation: you see a manual provisioning request and think about how to eliminate the category, not just fulfill the ticket
Regular, practical use of AI tools as part of daily IT work; we use Claude, Harvey, and others internally and expect this role to push that frontier
Ability to operate without a team, manage a high-volume request queue, and still make time for the structural work
Tech stack: Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft 365, Claude, GitHub, Vanta, 1Password, HubSpot, Highspot, Sybill, Granola, Harvey AI, Ramp, Navan, Vercel, Notion, Omni, BigQuery, Lattice, Adobe, and more
Bonus Points
Experience at a high-growth startup running IT
Experience running security (pattern-matching instincts for risk, even without owning strategy)
Experience working in a regulated business/industry
What we bring
Backing, traction & brand:
We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best venture and strategic investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Ardent Venture Partners, Pattern, Clearway, EDFR, Intersect, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.
Additionally, we have raised a $500mm debt facility from Nuveen, allowing us to co-invest and deploy our own capital in support of the clean economy.
Have been profitable and are growing exponentially
We have closed over 120+ transactions in just the last 2 years, facilitating billions of dollars of capital flowing into renewables projects
Culture & working dynamic
: Work from anywhere in the US and Canada, or work out of our optional offices in DC (open), NYC (opening Q1’26). Optional co-working opportunities with co-workers in Bay Area, Seattle, Denver, Boston, LA, and beyond.
: We grow quickly by giving extremely talented people a lot of responsibility.
: We have brought together a team that are experts in clean energy finance, and the best technologies. Use your expertise while getting to be on the cutting edge of applying AI to your day and your clients’ experience.
: We sustain culture by bringing the entire company together 3 times a year. Individual teams may also meet up more frequently.
Benefits
: We cover 100% of premiums for employees with a variety of plans on Aetna (nationwide) and Kaiser (WA and California) and subsidize 70% for dependents (total as a group), if relevant.
: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and 50% for dependents (each), if relevant.
: 10 company holidays per year.
: 20 days per year.
: We support a 401k account but don't have a matching program set up at this time (typical for an early-stage startup).
: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
Compensation:
: $140,000 - $200,000 depending on leveling/years of experience, not reflecting value of equity.
Company wide bonus tied to revenue goals.
in a rapidly growing company.
Values: We want to work on a team where people support each other - in their growth, in their work, and towards our shared mission. When we do that, we have fun.
: We move quickly. To do that, we focus, consistently ask ourselves if we are prioritizing the right things, and execute them as best as possible.
: Our first obligation is to our customers and partners, and we keep their needs front and center in everything we do.
: We are all owners of Crux. This is our team, our company, our product and we show that to each other.
: We’re building a team with a wide range of backgrounds and a culture where everyone can thrive.
We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
AI Product Engineer
We’re financing the future of energy
Crux is the capital platform for the clean economy. We modernize capital raising and deployment for clean energy and critical infrastructure with solutions across advisory, investments, technology, and intelligence.
Our team of 100+ is composed of experts in energy, tax, finance, government, and technology. We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others. These funds are joined by strategic investors including Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables, Intersect Power, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.
An inflection point in American energy and manufacturing
Energy demand is growing for the first time in decades, driving an urgent need for more affordable and reliable electricity. More electricity requires new clean energy infrastructure and strong domestic supply chains for minerals and components — as well as large amounts of capital.
Traditional project financing is opaque, fragmented, and analog. At Crux, we’re changing that. Through unmatched insights and expertise, white-glove service, purpose-built tools, and risk underwriting, we power a more prosperous, clean, and secure energy future.
We are scaling quickly and looking for team members who are eager to combine deep expertise with an AI- and tech-forward mindset.
About the role
The traditional process for financing clean energy is manual, opaque, and slow. We’ve built products that solve part of that problem — now we’re expanding their breadth and depth with AI. We’re hiring our first AI Product Engineer to work hand-in-hand with customers, product, commercial, and legal teams to reimagine the way transactions happen in clean energy finance, starting with diligence.
You won’t just be building features — you’ll be co-designing the processes and systems that define how we ship high-quality AI products at Crux.
Much of this framework doesn’t exist yet — and you’ll help invent it using first principles.
What you'll do
Collaborate directly with customers
Build products from 0 -> 1
Pick the tools & frameworks we use
Learn an insane amount about the nuts & bolts of clean energy finance
Raise the bar for our engineering culture
What we’re looking for
4+ years of full-stack software engineering experience and you can build products end-to-end (frontend + backend)
Bonus: fluency in NextJS + React + Typescript stack
Also bonus: you are comfortable making UX decisions
Proven experience building and shipping user-facing LLM products
Bonus: you have iterated on a product through evals & CI/CD
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
Bonus: you love working at startups
Excellent communication skills (oral & written)
Bonus: also excellent at communicating with AI (prompting)
You might excel if you...
Enjoy hackathons & building side projects
Have experience building AI agents that work
Previously founded a startup OR worked at a rocket ship
Love taking products from 0 -> 1
Can do most things in half the time that most people think possible
Can quickly find the 80/20 solution and move on
Can unblock yourself and rally others
What we bring
Backing, traction & brand:
We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best venture and strategic investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Ardent Venture Partners, Pattern, Clearway, EDFR, Intersect, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.
Additionally, we have raised a $500mm debt facility from Nuveen, allowing us to co-invest and deploy our own capital in support of the clean economy.
Have been profitable and are growing exponentially
We have closed over 120+ transactions in just the last 2 years, facilitating billions of dollars of capital flowing into renewables projects
Culture & working dynamic
: Work from anywhere in the US and Canada, or work out of our optional offices in DC (open), NYC (opening Q1’26). Optional co-working opportunities with co-workers in Bay Area, Seattle, Denver, Boston, LA, and beyond.
: We grow quickly by giving extremely talented people a lot of responsibility.
: We have brought together a team that are experts in clean energy finance, and the best technologies. Use your expertise while getting to be on the cutting edge of applying AI to your day and your clients’ experience.
: We sustain culture by bringing the entire company together 3 times a year. Individual teams may also meet up more frequently.
Benefits
: We cover 100% of premiums for employees with a variety of plans on Aetna (nationwide) and Kaiser (WA and California) and subsidize 70% for dependents (total as a group), if relevant.
: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and 50% for dependents (each), if relevant.
: 10 company holidays per year.
: 20 days per year.
: We support a 401k account but don't have a matching program set up at this time (typical for an early-stage startup).
: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
Compensation:
: $150,000 - $250,000 depending on leveling/years of experience, not reflecting value of equity.
Company wide bonus tied to revenue goals.
in a rapidly growing company.
Values: We want to work on a team where people support each other - in their growth, in their work, and towards our shared mission. When we do that, we have fun.
: We move quickly. To do that, we focus, consistently ask ourselves if we are prioritizing the right things, and execute them as best as possible.
: Our first obligation is to our customers and partners, and we keep their needs front and center in everything we do.
: We are all owners of Crux. This is our team, our company, our product and we show that to each other.
: We’re building a team with a wide range of backgrounds and a culture where everyone can thrive.
We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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