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American Terawatt · New York City and San Francisco · On-site

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About American Terawatt

Backed by Antler.

About the role

We are hiring a Commercial Lead, Energy Markets to identify where our transmission network can create the most value and turn market signals into actionable development opportunities. You will work directly with our founders and the Origination, Development, and Engineering teams, taking ownership of our market model, opportunity pipeline, and portfolio recommendations.

What they're looking for

  • Strong quantitative modeling skills: fluent building and maintaining financial/market models, plus the ability to wrangle messy public and proprietary data programmatically (Python, SQL, or equivalent)
  • Familiarity with US wholesale power markets and the interconnection process — ISO/RTO market design, LMPs and congestion, and the generator interconnection queue (cluster studies, FERC Order 2023). Understanding of utility and ISO/RTO tariff filings and rates
  • Renewable and conventional power generation, energy storage, and related energy infrastructure
  • Datacenter or large industrial load development and power procurement (hyperscaler demand, co-location / behind-the-meter structures)
  • Transmission economics and planning, ideally including HVDC, nodal/congestion or basis analysis
  • Transmission interconnection submissions, utility transmission RFP responses
More about this role

American Terawatt is building a new industrial electric grid for the United States. Executing successfully means engaging in power development at a national scale. This means understanding market conditions at macro and micro level.

We design and deploy advanced power transmission systems, serving large industrial loads, hundreds of megawatts at a time. Our systems deliver electric power to everything from frontier AI datacenters to highly automated manufacturing, refineries, mines, and more.

We make interconnection fast, simple, and cheap. On our network, generation owners get their projects online faster, delivering abundant power at competitive prices.

The backbone of American Terawatt’s network is high power HVDC transmission, anchored by our unique terminal design. American Terawatt’s HVDC terminals are standardized, modular, and natively integrate energy storage. Each one is designed to expand to operate as a full node on our future HVDC transmission network.

We are hiring a Commercial Lead, Energy Markets to identify where our transmission network can create the most value and turn market signals into actionable development opportunities.

You will work directly with our...

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