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Benefits Specialist

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Crusoe

Crusoe

501-1,000 employees

Captures stranded energy for computing

Compensation Overview

$50 - $70/hr

Senior

Denver, CO, USA

In Person

Category
Human Resources
People & HR
Requirements
  • 5+ years of benefits administration experience, with a strong focus on leave management and accommodations.
  • Knowledge of FMLA, ADA, and state-specific leave laws.
  • Experience supporting open enrollment and benefits-related reporting.
  • Strong attention to detail, organization, and ability to handle confidential information.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to provide clear employee guidance.
Responsibilities
  • Oversee and administer medical leave, parental leave, and ADA accommodation requests, ensuring compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
  • Support open enrollment planning and execution, including employee communications and system updates.
  • Support workers' compensation administration, including claims tracking and coordination.
  • Assist with ad hoc reporting, audits, and data reconciliation as needed.
  • Collaborate with HR, payroll, and third-party vendors to ensure smooth benefits operations.
  • Respond to general employee benefit inquiries and escalate complex issues as necessary.
  • Assist with benefits enrollments, terminations, and changes across all benefit carriers as needed.
Desired Qualifications
  • Proficiency in HRIS and benefits administration systems preferred, especially Rippling and Tilt.
  • The ideal candidate will have broker-side experience.
  • Experience with workers’ compensation claims is a plus.

Crusoe Energy Systems focuses on utilizing wasted or stranded energy, particularly from the oil and gas industry, to power computational workloads. The company captures natural gas that would typically be flared and converts it into electricity on-site, which is then used to operate modular data centers. These data centers are equipped for high-performance computing tasks, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cryptocurrency mining. Crusoe's approach not only addresses the environmental issue of gas flaring but also provides affordable computing power to clients. By offering flaring mitigation services to energy producers and cloud computing services to a global market, Crusoe integrates energy capture with data processing, distinguishing itself from competitors in both the energy and technology sectors. The company's goal is to create a sustainable solution that maximizes the use of otherwise wasted energy while delivering cost-effective computing solutions.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$1.1B

Headquarters

Denver, Colorado

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Rising interest in carbon capture boosts demand for Crusoe's flare mitigation technology.
  • Edge computing growth aligns with Crusoe's remote modular data center strategy.
  • AI and machine learning advancements increase demand for Crusoe's computing resources.

What critics are saying

  • New entrants in flare mitigation could challenge Crusoe's market share.
  • Cryptocurrency market volatility may impact demand for Crusoe's services.
  • Alternative energy storage advancements could reduce reliance on natural gas flaring.

What makes Crusoe unique

  • Crusoe captures wasted natural gas to power modular data centers on-site.
  • The company offers a dual service: flare mitigation and low-cost cloud computing.
  • Crusoe's vertically integrated model links energy capture with data processing.

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Benefits

Industry competitive pay

Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents

Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

Parental leave

Stock options in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company

Pet-friendly offices

Teladoc

401(k) with a 4% match

Unlimited time off

Cell phone reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Company paid commuter benefit; $100 per month

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Company News

Crusoe
Dec 24th, 2024
Crusoe Closes $600M in Series D Round at $2.8 Billion Valuation to Power AI

Crusoe is on a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate.

Benzinga
Oct 29th, 2024
Crusoe Energy Secures $500M Investment

Crusoe Energy, a data center startup, secured a $500 million equity investment led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, valuing the company at approximately $3 billion. The investment supports Crusoe's expansion in AI infrastructure and coincides with a $3.4 billion deal with Blue Owl Capital for a new data center in Texas. Crusoe uses waste natural gas to power its centers, reducing emissions. Thiel's Founders Fund continues to invest in AI and cryptocurrency sectors.

VentureBeat
Jul 4th, 2024
From Code To Impact: Crusoe’S Hackathon Reveals Ai’S Power To Drive Change In Energy And Beyond

We want to hear from you! Take our quick AI survey and share your insights on the current state of AI, how you’re implementing it, and what you expect to see in the future. Learn More. In a 24-hour hackathon hosted by Crusoe Energy and Lowercarbon Capital, developers demonstrated the remarkable speed at which AI can tackle longstanding challenges in the clean energy sector. The event, held in San Francisco on June 28-29, 2024, showcased how AI tools can compress months or years of traditional work into mere hours, potentially revolutionizing clean energy deployment.The winning team, Verdigris, exemplified this swift transformation by developing an AI system that addresses key barriers in home electrification. Their tool analyzes mortgage data to identify qualified homeowners for zero-cost upgrades and generates personalized marketing materials, including AI-created images of homes with proposed improvements. This level of personalization and automation could significantly accelerate the adoption of home energy upgrades.Team Verdigris’ winning moment    Credit: Crusoe Verdigris’s system integrates with bank databases to access mortgage information, income data and property details

VentureBeat
Jun 24th, 2024
How Gradient Created An Open Llm With A Million-Token Context Window

Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and expand your network at this exclusive three day event. Learn More. In a recent collaboration, AI startup Gradient and cloud compute platform Crusoe extended the “context window” of Llama-3 models to 1 million tokens. The context window determines the number of input and output tokens a large language model (LLM) can process. Big tech companies and frontier AI labs are locked in a race to extend the context windows of their LLMs. In a few months, models have gone from supporting a few thousand tokens to more than a million in less than a year

IREI
Jun 19th, 2024
Crusoe Energy Systems closes funding round co-led by Bain Capital and Founders Fund Pathfinder

Crusoe Energy Systems has successfully completed a $4.5 million seed financing round.