Infrastructure Development Lead - Europe

Fuse Energy; United States; Remote; USD 173,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Biannual bonus scheme

Fully expensed tech

Job summary

Fuse Energy, a forward-thinking renewable energy startup, seeks an experienced leader to own European data centre development end-to-end. You will drive market entry, grid strategies, site assessments, and financing while coordinating with TSOs, DSOs, and regulators across multiple countries.

The role requires deep knowledge of European data centre geographies, strong technical insight into power and cooling systems, and willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Own data centre development in Europe end-to-end: from market entry strategy and early-stage opportunity through Ready-to-Build and energisation
• Evaluate and prioritise European markets - Nordics, Iberia, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, France, CEE - based on power availability and price, grid connection timelines, land, fibre connectivity, climate, permitting regimes, and incentives
• Assess sites from technical, planning, power, and infrastructure perspectives
• Develop grid connection and power strategies with European TSOs, DSOs, and national utility providers across target markets
• Structure and support development financing: capital planning, project finance, and working with investors and lenders to fund development through delivery
• Lead planning, permitting, environmental assessment, and stakeholder engagement processes in each jurisdiction
• Identify and mitigate technical, commercial, and development risks
• Ensure projects are deliverable, scalable, and aligned with construction requirements
• Experience developing data centres or large-scale infrastructure projects in Europe, taken from early-stage development through design, permitting, and delivery readiness
• Deep knowledge of key European data centre geographies and why they matter - grid capacity, permitting dynamics, power markets, and where new capacity can realistically be delivered at speed
• Strong understanding of European planning and grid connection processes, including working with TSOs, DSOs, and national regulators
• Strong technical understanding of data centre infrastructure, including power, cooling, and utility systems, with the ability to evaluate engineering decisions and challenge technical assumptions
• Understanding of development financing for infrastructure projects, including project finance structures and investor requirements
• Highly analytical, self-directed, and comfortable with significant ownership
• Willingness to travel across Europe; additional European languages are a plus
• Competitive salary
• Biannual bonus scheme
• Fully expensed tech to match your needs

Job description

Fuse Energy is a forward-thinking renewable energy startup on a mission to deliver a terawatt of renewable energy – fast. We’re combining first-principles thinking with cutting-edge technology to build a radically better energy system. We raised $210M from top-tier investors including Multicoin, Balderton, Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Lowercarbon, Ribbit, Box Group and strategic angels like Nico Rosberg, the Co-Founder of Solana and GPs behind Meta, Revolut, Spotify, Uber and more.

We’re creating a fully integrated energy company: from developing renewable generation and grid infrastructure to powering the next generation of AI and compute-intensive industries. As AI drives unprecedented demand for power and data center capacity, the bottleneck is no longer chips – it is energy, grid infrastructure, and the ability to deliver new capacity at speed.

Responsibilities

• Own data centre development in Europe end-to-end: from market entry strategy and early-stage opportunity through Ready-to-Build and energisation

• Evaluate and prioritise European markets - Nordics, Iberia, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, France, CEE - based on power availability and price, grid connection timelines, land, fibre connectivity, climate, permitting regimes, and incentives

• Assess sites from technical, planning, power, and infrastructure perspectives

• Develop grid connection and power strategies with European TSOs, DSOs, and national utility providers across target markets

• Structure and support development financing: capital planning, project finance, and working with investors and lenders to fund development through delivery

• Lead planning, permitting, environmental assessment, and stakeholder engagement processes in each jurisdiction

• Identify and mitigate technical, commercial, and development risks

• Ensure projects are deliverable, scalable, and aligned with construction requirements

• Experience developing data centres or large-scale infrastructure projects in Europe, taken from early-stage development through design, permitting, and delivery readiness

• Deep knowledge of key European data centre geographies and why they matter - grid capacity, permitting dynamics, power markets, and where new capacity can realistically be delivered at speed

• Strong understanding of European planning and grid connection processes, including working with TSOs, DSOs, and national regulators

• Strong technical understanding of data centre infrastructure, including power, cooling, and utility systems, with the ability to evaluate engineering decisions and challenge technical assumptions

• Understanding of development financing for infrastructure projects, including project finance structures and investor requirements

• Highly analytical, self-directed, and comfortable with significant ownership

• Willingness to travel across Europe; additional European languages are a plus

• Competitive salary

• Biannual bonus scheme

• Fully expensed tech to match your needs