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About the role
You will be the lead lawyer for how Crux secures, builds, and powers its data center fleet. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of legal experience in real estate, construction, energy, or infrastructure transactions, combining top-tier law firm training with significant in-house experience
- Direct responsibility for closing large-scale development deals end to end: land or powered-shell acquisitions, BTS or colocation leases, EPC or design-build contracts, and utility or power agreements for data center, energy, or heavy industrial projects
- Experience managing outside counsel across jurisdictions and leading or mentoring other lawyers
- In-house data center legal experience at a hyperscaler (Google, AWS, Microsoft, Meta), a neocloud (CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, Nebius), or a data center developer or operator
- Experience with utility regulatory processes, large-load tariffs, or ISO/RTO interconnection
- Experience with project finance, construction lending, or joint venture structures at the asset level
More about this role
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
You will be the lead lawyer for how Crux secures, builds, and powers its data center fleet.
Reporting to our General Counsel, you will own the legal side of every site from first LOI through energization and Level 5 commissioning: land and powered-shell acquisitions, build-to-suit and colocation leases, EPC and construction contracts, long-lead equipment procurement, utility interconnection and power supply agreements, and the project-level documents that lenders and partners rely on. You will start as a hands-on practitioner and build a team of 1 to 3...
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