Energy Origination & Hedging Manager

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, seeks an experienced energy origination and hedging professional to lead PPAs, LCOE analyses, and risk management for data center growth.

You will negotiate with utilities, model energy costs, and structure contracts across NYMEX/OTC instruments while staying ahead of market dynamics and regulatory changes.

Qualifications

• Experience in energy origination, commodity trading, or utility-scale power markets.
• Ability to build and pressure-test LCOE, NPV, and IRR models.
• Hands-on hedging experience with power and gas swaps and options.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills with senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Originate energy agreements including PPAs, interconnection and supply contracts; data center context preferred.
• Develop LCOE and NPV/IRR analyses to inform site and structure decisions.
• Own hedging strategy by evaluating and executing power and fuel hedges to de-risk financing.
• Structure instruments across fixed-price contracts, swaps and options to manage price exposure.
• Model peak demand risk and identify tariff/DR/BESS strategies to reduce cost.
• Forecast energy costs at site level using tariff structures and market curves.
• Lead negotiations with utilities and energy suppliers on commercial terms.
• Track market dynamics including RTO/ISO processes and tariff/regulatory risk.

Skills

Energy origination

Commodity trading

Power markets

Contract negotiation

Financial modeling

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Excel

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.

YouBackground

• 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 infrastr