Energy Origination & Hedging Manager

Lambda; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & vision coverage

401k match

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. This role focuses on energy origination, hedging, and commercial deal-making to support Lambda's data center growth.

You will originate energy agreements, build investment cases, and manage hedging strategies across power markets, working with utilities and fuel suppliers to optimize cost and risk.

Qualifications

• Meaningful experience in energy origination, commodity/power trading, or utility-scale power markets, with direct exposure to contract negotiation and deal execution.
• Analytical rigor building and pressure-testing LCOE, NPV, and IRR models.
• Hedging experience evaluating or executing power and gas hedges (swaps, options, NYMEX/OTC).
• Ability to translate complex risk and financial analysis for senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Originate Energy Agreements: Lead origination of PPAs and energy supply contracts; data center context preferred.
• Build the Investment Case: Develop LCOE and NPV/IRR analyses for various power strategies to inform site decisions.
• Own Hedging Strategy: Evaluate and execute power and fuel price hedges to de-risk GPU financing.
• Structure the Instruments: Work with fixed-price contracts, heat rate options, swaps, and gas instruments.
• Manage Demand Charge Risk: Model peak demand exposure and tariff strategies to reduce cost.
• Forecast Energy Costs: Produce site-level energy cost forecasts using tariff structures and market curves.
• Lead Negotiations: Negotiate with utilities and fuel suppliers on commercial terms.
• Track the Market: Maintain knowledge of RTO/ISO processes and tariff structures.

Skills

Energy origination

Commodity trading

Financial modeling

Negotiation skills

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

Originator with analyst and hedging experience. This is one of the most critical hires on the team: the role bridges commercial deal-making, quantitative analysis, and energy risk management in support of Lambda's data center growth. For the right candidate with commodity risk experience, hedging analysis can become a core, ongoing responsibility rather than an occasional task.

What You'll Do

• Originate Energy Agreements: Lead origination of PPAs, utility interconnection agreements, and energy supply contracts; experience in a data center context strongly preferred.
• Build the Investment Case: Develop LCOE and NPV/IRR analyses comparing utility (typically $1M–$3M guarantee), hybrid, and islanded (~$300K credit support) power strategies to inform site and structure decisions.
• Own Hedging Strategy: Evaluate and execute power and fuel price hedges that directly de-risk and support GPU financing.
• Structure the Instruments: Work across fixed-price contracts, heat rate call options, financial swaps, basis swaps, and NYMEX and OTC gas to manage price exposure.
• Manage Demand Charge Risk: Model peak demand exposure and identify tariff, demand response, or BESS strategies to reduce cost.
• Forecast Energy Costs: Produce site-level energy cost forecasts at acquisition using tariff structures and market price curves.
• Lead Negotiations: Negotiate directly with utilities, Solaris, VoltaGrid, and fuel suppliers on commercial and technical terms.
• Track the Market: Maintain working knowledge of RTO/ISO processes, tariff structures, state regulatory risk, and broader energy market dynamics.

You

• Background: Meaningful experience in energy origination, commodity/power trading, or utility-scale power markets, with direct exposure to contract negotiation and deal execution.
• Analytical Rigor: Comfortable building and pressure-testing LCOE, NPV, and IRR models comparing competing power supply strategies.
• Hedging Experience: Hands-on experience evaluating or executing power and gas hedges (swaps, options, NYMEX/OTC); prior experience holding commodity risk is a strong plus.
• Communication Skills: Able to negotiate directly with utilities and counterparties, and to translate complex risk and financial analysis for senior leadership.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience procuring or structuring power for data centers, hyperscale, or other large industrial/AI infrastructure loads.
• Working familiarity with RTO/ISO markets (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, SPP, etc.) and their tariff and settlement structures.
• Exposure to project or asset financing where power costs and hedges are a driver of the financing structure (e.g., GPU or infrastructure financing).
• Background at a utility, energy trading desk, IPP, data center developer, or commodity risk management group.

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
• We offer generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.