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Data Center Construction Manager

Crux · Palo Alto · Remote

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About Crux

Backed by a16z.

About the role

You will be the owner's construction leader for Crux data center projects — accountable for safety, quality, schedule milestones, forecast accuracy, and cost through GMP and closeout. You will manage general contractors, key trade partners, and owner-furnished equipment on fast-track, high-density builds and fit-outs, including work inside third-party powered shells.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years in construction management of large technical projects, including ground-up greenfield delivery, with direct data center experience strongly preferred, deep working knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems, codes, and fire protection
  • Owner-side or owner’s-rep accountability for safety, quality, schedule, GMP accuracy, and change order negotiation on projects of $250M+
  • Fast-track delivery experience — schedule acceleration decisions, prefabrication strategies, and construction inside or around live/partner facilities
  • High-density AI/HPC build experience (liquid cooling, 100kW+ racks, large UPS/generator plants)
  • Experience delivering fit-outs inside third-party powered shells or colo partner facilities
  • Procore/ACC/Unifier or similar project controls stack fluency
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 owner's construction leader for Crux data center projects — accountable for safety, quality, schedule milestones, forecast accuracy, and cost through GMP and closeout. You will manage general contractors, key trade partners, and owner-furnished equipment on fast-track, high-density builds and fit-outs, including work inside third-party powered shells. Speed to first power and first cluster is the product; your job is to buy schedule intelligently, protect it ruthlessly, and hand operations a building that commissions clean. You will also...

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