Energy Lead

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. Technology gave people more time for things they wanted to do instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice—but only if models align with what humanity actually wants. We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators.

How We Operate

• High ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos—the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

The Development Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on:

• Find enough land to deploy multiple gigawatts a week. By 2030 we need to bring on multiple gigawatts of new capacity every week—securing sites at a pace and scale no one has operated at. You'll own finding and locking that land ahead of the build.
• Get power online in months, not years. Most of the clock runs before the lease is ever signed. You'll optimize pre-signature work, site diligence, permitting, and development so a site goes from signed lease to live power in under six months.
• Acquire 10s to 100s of GWs behind the meter. Reaching that scale means generating on-site instead of waiting on grid interconnection. You'll secure the land and behind-the-meter solar generation to get there.

Role Scope

• Own commercial relationships with utilities, energy suppliers, and market operators across every active US data center market, from initial engagement through long-term agreement execution.
• Shape energy supply outcomes by actively participating in regulatory and rate-making processes, engaging ISOs, policymakers, and utilities before constraints land on the build pipeline.
• Negotiate retail power agreements, PPAs, and behind-the-meter offtake deals with commercial counterparties, structuring terms that create fungible capacity options and running scenario analyses to extend the shelf life of existing options or accelerate delivery of new ones.
• Partner with the site acquisition team to assess energy requirements for prospective locations before lease commitments, and with legal to structure and refine commercial arrangements for existing facilities.
• Quarterback across design, construction, finance, sustainability, and on-site operations on all energy workstreams, and distill technical, market, and regulatory developments into clear decisions for leadership.

What We're Looking For

• You've managed large-load interconnection processes from application to executed agreement at a utility, developer, or industrial operator, and you know what can go wrong at each step.
• You've read and modeled from utility tariff filings, rate schedules, and service agreements well enough to build power cost estimates that hold up through project finance and final deal terms.
• You've maintained working-level relationships with utility project managers and engineers across multiple active projects simultaneously, and you know how to keep a queue item from going dormant.
• You catch schedule risks and cost exposure before they surface to leadership, and you document project status with enough precision that someone else could pick up a file mid-process without losing context.
• You quarterback across development, legal, engineering, and finance on site-specific energy questions, and you're the person who knows exactly where each site stands in the interconnection process at any given moment.

Bonus Qualifications

• Direct experience across multiple ISO/RTO markets (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, WECC).
• Background at a utility, ISO, or energy developer.
• Familiarity with substation design, service entrance requirements, or transmission cost allocation studies.
• International utility experience in UK or EU markets.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity). Compensation range: $274K–$357K.
• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
• Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.