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About the Opportunity
The organization exists to make humanity more free. For most of human history, individuals farmed or 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 ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who do not share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.
The company is singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. The organization acquires power, designs and builds data centers, and operates them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are key differentiators. Join the team in building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.
Individuals who care deeply about this problem space are hired. If that is you, please apply!
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. 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. Put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
The Construction Team
- Put gigawatts in the ground, faster than anyone has. The organization is delivering one of the largest data center buildouts of its kind, with many sites running at once. Traditional construction management breaks at this scale, so the model that replaces it is being built.
- Throw out traditional construction and invent how gigawatts get built. Tons of tools, layers of process, and administrative drag do not get you there. Strip all of that out and win by solving the real problem and beating the goal, not by managing toward it.
- Productize the data center so it can be built a thousand times. Turn one-off construction into a repeatable, modular build, where the hundredth site goes up faster and cleaner than the first. That repeatability is the only way to reach the scale being targeted.
Role Scope
- Drive end-to-end delivery of utility-scale solar and BESS projects from development handoff through commercial operation, owning budget, schedule, scope, and risk across civil, electrical, substation, gen-tie, and interconnection workstreams.
- Build and own integrated project schedules (Primavera P6, MS Project) across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning, and maintain the master schedule as the single source of truth from site mobilization through energization.
- Own project budgets, cash-flow forecasts, and change-order governance, report earned-value KPIs weekly, and flag cost and schedule deviations with recovery options before they compound.
- Manage the full contract lifecycle: RFP, bid analysis, EPC and subcontractor award, PCO tracking, lender and interconnection reporting requirements, and close-out.
- Drive mitigation on critical-path and long-lead risks including transformers, inverters, switchgear, BESS enclosures, and interconnection queue milestones, and act as the single point of accountability for all internal and external project stakeholders.
- Lead construction managers, field superintendents, and project engineers across concurrent solar sites, develop staffing plans, and run the weekly cadence of standups, reviews, and issue escalations.
What We're Looking For
- Led project management on utility-scale solar or solar-plus-storage projects from NTP through COD, delivered on budget, and can describe exactly where the schedule pressure came from and how it was resolved.
- Understand civil, structural, electrical, BESS, substation, and gen-tie scopes well enough to catch scope gaps at bid time and hold EPC contractors to the contract during execution.
- Own budgets at the project level: have run earned-value tracking, managed owner-controlled contingency, and governed change orders without losing commercial position.
- Manage interconnection milestones as a critical path item, and have navigated CAISO, MISO, ERCOT, or PJM queue processes without letting them dictate the schedule.
- Communicate with enough precision that a lender, a landowner, and a field superintendent each get exactly what they need from the same status update, reframed for their context.
- Built and scaled field-based project teams across multiple concurrent sites, and the people led have gone on to run projects themselves.
- Bonus: PMI-PMP or equivalent. BESS and substation construction. Multi-state concurrent portfolio delivery. Lender reporting and project finance interface.
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 $160,000 - $250,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents the organization's 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.
The organization is committed to pay equity and transparency.
The hiring company 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. The organization will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
This range reflects a good-faith estimate based on the applicable pay scale, the range previously established for this role, the compensation of individuals currently in equivalent positions, and/or the budgeted amount for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, qualifications, and other factors.