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About the role
Power is the binding constraint on AI capacity, and you will own it for Crux — securing megawatts, making energization dates real, and managing energy cost and risk across the portfolio. You will negotiate with utilities, market operators, and power providers across interconnection, tariffs, and supply agreements, and you will pressure-test every power claim behind a site or third-party deal before we commit capital to it.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years navigating commercial energy issues for large customer loads — utility negotiations, interconnection processes, transmission/distribution fundamentals, and wholesale market structures across multiple US markets (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP, WECC)
- Direct experience contracting large new loads: energy service agreements, PPAs, interconnection and facilities agreements, and rate/tariff negotiations — ideally for data centers or comparable industrial loads at 100MW+ scale
- Exposure to behind-the-meter or on-site generation development (gas, fuel cells, storage) and to bridging-power structuring on schedule-driven projects
- Hyperscaler or neocloud energy team experience during a rapid load-growth ramp
- Regulatory experience — rate cases, special contracts, or large-load tariff proceedings
- Energy trading, hedging, or structured-products background
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.
Power is the binding constraint on AI capacity, and you will own it for Crux — securing megawatts, making energization dates real, and managing energy cost and risk across the portfolio. You will negotiate with utilities, market operators, and power providers across interconnection, tariffs, and supply agreements, and you will pressure-test every power claim behind a site or third-party deal before we commit capital to it. The role spans development and operations: getting new load connected on the dates the business is selling, structuring bridging and...
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