Commercial Energy Development Associate at Crusoe supporting GW-scale energy and infrastructure projects for AI compute campuses. Role involves pipeline development, partner engagement, due diligence, deal execution support, and market analysis across North America.
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
About This Role:
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the Associate, Commercial Energy Development, you will play a pivotal role in this mission by supporting the development of a robust pipeline of GW-scale energy and infrastructure projects to support next generation compute campuses, including partner engagement, preliminary due diligence, deal execution support, market analysis, and executive reporting in our Energy Development Group. In other words, you’ll be a key player enabling infrastructure to support high-performance computing and AI workloads, helping Crusoe pioneer reliable, energy-first compute at scale.
You will work on projects across North America, focusing on delivering industry leading time-to-market and scale and creative energy solutions. While delivering robust power systems, you will focus on leveraging the industry’s energy demand to catalyze low-carbon baseload power. Including, but not limited to, solar, energy storage, hydro, nuclear, geothermal, and gas + CCS. This position directly impacts Crusoe's mission by identifying and advancing opportunities to execute on global-scale climate aligned data center infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, grow client relationships, support contract negotiation, support early stage development and drive regulatory compliance.
This role will be required to be in office 5 days per week in our San Francisco, CA office.
What You’ll Be Working On:
Pipeline development: Manage early stage opportunity sourcing and qualification, working closely with Commercial Leads and the Digital Infrastructure Group
Partner engagement: Conduct preliminary discussions with potential counterparties and partners to validate project details and fit with Crusoe criteria and objectives
Project due diligence: Drive vetting of early stage projects to identify key risks and mitigation pathways to create a recommendation to advance / kill projects
Deal execution support: Support Commercial Leads in driving deal analyses, structuring, and negotiation
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Technical Development, Real Estate, Power Infrastructure, Digital Infrastructure, Regulatory, Cloud, and others to drive alignment between pipeline development and Crusoe’s long term goals
Market & Regulatory Analysis: Analyze regulatory and policy developments impacting both the energy and AI industry. Recommend proactive adjustments to business strategies based on market analysis.
Market Research: Assess key trends within market segments (grid power incl. utilities / ISOs; gas power incl. turbine OEMs and gas suppliers, renewables incl. IPPs, etc.) to identify opportunities and support efforts to capitalize on them
Interconnection & Tax Abatement: Support interconnection application process and property tax abatement negotiations.
Data management and executive reporting: Own critical project data (cost, schedule, deal terms, equipment details, etc.) and and drive synthesis to support executive reporting
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
Energy & Real Estate Industry Experience: A minimum of 4+ years of experience in the energy and or industrial real estate sector(s), specifically within the project development of large-scale infrastructure
Power Marketing & PPA Origination: Experience with common energy sector players, deal structures, and origination strategies
AI Compute or Data Center Experience: Deep interest in AI workloads and working with AI infrastructure providers, hyperscalers, or compute developers
Market & Regulatory Understanding: Solid familiarity with the U.S. energy landscape and fluency in macro market trends
Key Skills: Adept in building relationships, highly organized / detail oriented, ability to work seamlessly across multiple projects
Humility: Commitment to a flat organizational culture where no task is too small, there is an obligation to challenge and be challenged, and the best idea wins with no ego
Hypothesis Driven: Comfortable with ambiguity and able to solve complex problems with imperfect information by identifying first principles and making structured decisions
Energy and Empathy: Passion for tackling big problems and solving challenges as part of a high performing team committed to bringing out the best in each other
Education: Relevant degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related field
Location & Work Model: Fully onsite in San Francisco
Bonus Points:
Growth Mindset: Curious, eager, tenacious, and a quick learner.
Adaptability: Willing to work hard at a fast-paced, dynamic startup where the industry changes quickly and goals evolve in real-time.
Solution oriented: Relentlessly identify, propose, and implement opportunities to work more effectively as a team
Benefits:
Competitive compensation
Restricted Stock Units
Paid time off & paid holidays
Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
Employer contributions to HSA account
Paid parental leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
Professional development & tuition reimbursement
Mental health & wellness support
Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
Cell phone stipend
401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Volunteer time off
Compensation:
Compensation will be paid in the range of $125,000-$150,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units and an annual targeted bonus are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.