Project Finance Associate

Antora Energy; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health benefits

401K plan

Flexible spending accounts

Paid time off

Job summary

Antora Energy is seeking a project finance professional to own underwriting behind a growing deal pipeline. You’ll bring 3+ years of project finance experience and first-class financial modeling to the team.

You’ll partner with development, policy, strategy, and power-supply teams to standardize how projects are underwritten, developing templates and training non-finance colleagues to use them effectively.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of project finance experience.
• Mastery of project-level financial modeling; building models from scratch.
• Strong grasp of how contracts, offtake agreements, and financing structures shape project economics.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and ability to explain finance to non-finance partners.
• Interest in teaching and scaling underwriting processes.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and stress-test project-level financial models across Antora’s verticals.
• Own economic analysis and underwriting for an active pipeline.
• Partner with development, policy, strategy, and power-supply teams to standardize underwriting.
• Develop templatized models and screening tools for commercial teams and train developers to use them.
• Support investment-committee processes and guide projects from screening to term sheets.
• Contribute to a broader capital-raise effort and assist in building repeatable financing facilities.
• Grow toward independently leading due diligence and negotiations on financings.

Skills

Project finance

Financial modeling

Cross-functional communication

Contracts & financing structures

Independent work

Mentoring/teaching

Job description

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines. We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.

Position Summary

Antora’s Project Finance team sits at the center of turning a rapidly expanding commercial pipeline into financed, executed projects. We're looking for a project finance professional to join a small, high-leverage team and own the economic analysis and underwriting behind this growing deal pipeline. You'll bring 3+ years of project finance experience and the judgment to hit the ground running, underwriting complex energy and infrastructure deals, partnering with commercial development teams across verticals, and helping build the standardized tools and processes that let Antora underwrite consistently as we scale. Over time, you'll grow into leading project financing yourself.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and stress-test project-level financial models across Antora’s commercial development verticals.
• Own economic analysis and underwriting for an active and growing pipeline, providing critical modeling bandwidth to the Project Finance team.
• Partner closely with commercial development, policy, strategy, and power-supply teams to standardize how projects are underwritten and ensure market learnings flow back into deal structuring.
• Develop templatized models and screening tools for the commercial teams, and train developers to use them effectively for early-stage evaluation.
• Support the investment-committee process, providing structured financial guidance as projects mature from early screening to signed term sheets and beyond.
• Contribute to the broader capital-raise effort as Antora builds repeatable financing facilities with preferred investors.
• Grow toward independently leading due diligence and negotiation on project financings over time.

Key Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in project finance, energy/infrastructure finance, infrastructure investing, or a development-side finance role.
• Demonstrated mastery of project-level financial modeling; building models from scratch and using them to drive real decisions.
• Strong grasp of how commercial contracts, offtake agreements, and financing structures shape project economics.
• Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment full of innovative deals.
• Excellent cross-functional communication; able to advise and enable non-finance partners.
• A real passion for analytical and underwriting work; and the ability to teach it.

Additional Qualifications Desired

• Direct experience underwriting energy projects
• Background in or exposure to project development, giving you an operator's instinct for how deals actually come together.
• Experience building analytical tools/templates adopted by non-finance teams.
• International project experience
• Comfort designing or improving repeatable processes (e.g., investment-committee frameworks, underwriting standards).

Work Location: Onsite - San Jose, CA

Salary Range: $104,000 USD - $125,000 USD Sala ry Basis: Annual

Please note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.

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