Solar Lead

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO policy

Retirement or pension plan

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin, Texas is looking for an experienced candidate to manage solar strategy and deployment across multiple data center projects. This role involves negotiating power purchase agreements and engaging with regulatory processes. You will own end-to-end project management that leverages your infrastructure experience in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

The ideal candidate will have a track record in managing large-scale projects and will be skilled in clear communication, enabling decision-making among diverse teams.

Qualifications

• Managed a portfolio of large-scale infrastructure or data center projects.
• Built processes and systems from scratch for leadership decision-making.
• Coordinated across construction, utilities, legal, finance, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own Solar strategy and deployment with commercial relationships.
• Negotiate solar PPAs and behind-the-meter arrangements.
• Engage in regulatory processes affecting generation timelines.

Skills

Large-scale infrastructure project management

Portfolio management

Clear communication and reporting

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.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

How We Operate

• High 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.

The Development Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Find enough land to deploy multiple gigawatts a week. By 2030 we need to bring on multiple gigawatts of new capacity every week, which means securing sites at a pace and scale no one in the industry has operated at. You'll own finding and locking that land ahead of the build.
• Get power online in months, not years. Most of the clock runs before the lease is ever signed. You'll optimize the pre-signature work, site diligence, permitting, and development, so a site goes from signed lease to live power in under six months.
• Acquire 10GW behind the meter. Reaching 10GW means generating on-site instead of waiting on grid interconnection. You'll secure the land and behind-the-meter solar generation to get there.

Role Scope

• Own Solar strategy and deployment. This includes commercial relationships with solar developers, suppliers, independent power producers, and behind-the-meter generation partners across every active US data center market, from initial site engagement through executed offtake agreement.
• Negotiate solar PPAs, behind-the-meter offtake agreements, and retail power arrangements with commercial counterparties, structuring terms that create fungible capacity options and running scenario analyses to extend the shelf life of existing agreements or accelerate delivery of new ones.
• Shape solar energy outcomes by engaging in interconnection processes, state and federal regulatory proceedings, and policy engagements that affect behind-the-meter generation timelines and economics.
• Partner with the site acquisition team to assess solar resource quality, supply chain constraints, and behind-the-meter generation potential for prospective locations before lease commitments are made.
• Quarterback solar workstreams across design, construction, finance, and grid operations, and distil market, regulatory, and technology developments into clear decisions for leadership.

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 managed a portfolio of large-scale infrastructure or data center projects where the complexity came from the number of concurrent sites, not just the size of any single one.
• You've built a program tracking processes, systems and reporting pipelines from scratch, not inherited them, and the output was something a leadership team actually used to make decisions.
• You quarterback across construction, utilities, legal, finance, and operations simultaneously, and you're the person other teams call when a milestone is at risk.
• You've owned stage-gate or milestone frameworks that coordinated handoffs between site selection, engineering, permitting, and operations, with no terms lost in the transition.
• You catch schedule risk and cost exposure weeks before they surface in a status meeting, and you know which two people to call to fix it.
• You write and communicate clearly enough to give a CEO or external developer a crisp summary of where a 7GW portfolio stands in five minutes.
• Bonus: Data center powered shell or leased capacity deal structures. Utility interconnection and power market dynamics. AI infrastructure constraints and chip-lock scheduling. Portfolio-level tooling or automation built on top of spreadsheet-era data.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

The base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $350,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.

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.