Gas Lead

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI in Austin, TX. We seek a leader who can negotiate complex energy contracts, evaluate gas-fuel strategies, and drive techno-economic analyses to inform major investment decisions.

The role requires coordinating engineering, legal, and finance teams to deliver from site selection through energization. The ideal candidate has deep experience with behind-the-meter arrangements and a proven ability to translate technical questions into

Qualifications

• Negotiated behind-the-meter PPAs, tolls, or heat rate options where economics held through project finance.
• Negotiated gas supply agreements with fixed-price, index, and basis exposure.
• Diligenced gas-fired sites from pipeline access to power delivery considerations.
• Built techno-economic models and defended sensitivities to lenders or executives.
• Coordinated across engineering, legal, and finance to drive decisions and next steps.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate behind-the-meter PPAs, tolling agreements, and heat rate options during project development.
• Assess gas supply, transport, and basis exposure to lock in deliverability and costs.
• Diligence gas sites for pipeline access, permits, and power delivery feasibility.
• Evaluate generation technologies by heat rate and economics to guide equipment choices.
• Lead cross-functional coordination from site selection to energization, flagging risks early.

Skills

Behind-the-meter PPAs

Gas supply agreements

Gas-fired site diligence

Techno-economic modeling

Executive communication

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.

• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.

• Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.

• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

Role Scope

• Negotiate behind-the-meter PPAs, tolling agreements, and heat rate options with generation owners and developers for multi-hundred-megawatt data center campuses.

• Negotiate gas supply, transport, and basis arrangements that lock in fuel price and deliverability for each behind-the-meter site before the build starts.

• Diligence prospective behind-the-meter gas sites for pipeline access, fuel constraints, air permitting, and power delivery risk before we commit to a lease.

• Evaluate generation equipment (for example turbines and reciprocating engines) on heat rate, availability, lead time, emissions, and delivered cost, and turn it into a clear recommendation for leadership.

• Quarterback development, engineering, legal, and finance from site selection through executed supply contracts to energization, and flag cost and schedule exposure before it reaches leadership.

What We’re Looking For

• You’ve personally negotiated behind-the-meter PPAs, tolls, or heat rate options where the economics had to hold through project finance and final deal terms.

• You’ve negotiated gas supply agreements and managed fixed-price, index, and basis exposure, and you know which fuel constraints break a plant’s dispatch.

• You’ve diligenced a gas-fired site from pipeline access and fuel deliverability through air permits and power delivery, and you know what kills a site early.

• You’ve compared generation technologies on heat rate, spark-spread economics, and reliability, and your analysis drove an equipment decision.

• You’ve built the techno-economic models behind these deals and defended the sensitivities to lenders, investors, or executives.

• You quarterback across engineering, legal, finance, and operations, and you write clearly enough to distill a technical question into a decision and a next step for a CEO.

• Bonus: Multi-market power experience (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, WECC). Plant dispatch and fuel optimization (generator, asset manager, or trading desk). Large-load and utility interconnection. Pipeline capacity and midstream contracting.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.