Powered Land Acquisition

Fluidstack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equal opportunity employer

Pay equity and transparency

Job summary

Fluidstack is hiring for a role focused on sourcing and securing powered land and brownfield sites, delivering hundreds of megawatts to gigawatts of capacity. You will negotiate complex land agreements and perform end-to-end diligence across title, zoning, and power paths.

You will manage multi-site pipelines, assess interconnection feasibility, and hand off secured sites to development teams with a clean title and a clear power path. This is a fast-paced, ownership-driven role in the SF area.

Qualifications

• Experience sourcing and closing land or site acquisitions where getting power to the site was the constraint.
• Ability to negotiate purchase, lease, and option agreements with landowners, developers, and utilities.
• Familiarity with interconnection queues, capacity maps, or substation studies to assess power feasibility.
• End-to-end land diligence across title, zoning, environmental, and power path.
• Management of multi-site pipelines and ability to prune non-pencil sites quickly.

Responsibilities

• Source and lock powered land and brownfield sites delivering hundreds of MW to GW capacity.
• Negotiate land purchase, lease, and option agreements with landowners, developers, and utilities.
• Diligence power availability, interconnection queue position, substation proximity, and deliverability before advancing sites.
• Build and manage a pipeline of powered-land opportunities across regions; kill weak sites fast.
• Hand off secured sites with clean title and proven power path to development teams.

Skills

Sourcing land sites

Negotiating land deals

Interconnection knowledge

Due diligence

Pipeline management

Fast execution

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.

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.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• 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.

Role Scope

• Source and lock powered land and brownfield sites that can deliver hundreds of megawatts to gigawatts of capacity, ahead of the build pipeline.
• Negotiate land purchase, lease, and option agreements with landowners, developers, and utilities who don't share our timeline.
• Diligence power availability, interconnection queue position, substation proximity, and deliverability before a site advances past LOI.
• Build and manage a pipeline of powered-land opportunities across multiple regions, and kill weak sites fast so capital and attention go to the ones that pencil.
• Hand off secured sites to development and construction with clean title, a proven power path, and complete diligence so no surprise stalls mobilization.

What We're Looking For

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
• You've personally sourced and closed land or site acquisitions where getting power to the site was the constraint that made or broke the deal.
• You've negotiated purchase, lease, and option agreements directly with landowners, developers, and utilities.
• You've read an interconnection queue, a utility capacity map, or a substation study and known whether a site could actually get power and when.
• You've run land diligence end to end across title, zoning, environmental, and power path, and caught the problem that would have killed the deal after signing.
• You've managed a multi-site pipeline and walked away from sites that didn't pencil without sinking months into them first.
• You move fast against counterparties who don't, and you've closed a site while a competitor was still scheduling the first call.
• Bonus: Datacenter, industrial, or large-scale energy site acquisition. Utility interconnection and power markets. Brownfield or greenfield development. Title, entitlement, and land-use diligence.

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.

Compensation Range: $240K - $286K