Legal Counsel, Crusoe Energy Systems
Power & Energy
$218-273k
+ Restricted Stock Units and Bonus
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
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Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$218-273k
+ Restricted Stock Units and Bonus
More information about location
5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Education: Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school
- Licensure: Active bar admission in any state
- Experience: 5–7 years of experience working on real estate acquisitions and power procurement
- Finance Knowledge: Strong understanding of construction financing and loan due diligence processes
- Technical Skills: Excellent negotiation and drafting skills with the ability to manage high-stakes business environments independently
- Sector Expertise: Experience with data centers or large-scale industrial development projects is strongly preferred
Desirable
- Direct experience negotiating with major RTOs/ISOs (e.g., PJM, MISO, ERCOT)
- Familiarity with energy-related tax credits or government incentive programs
- Previous in-house experience at a renewable energy or infrastructure company
What the job involves
- The Legal Counsel, Power & Energy will play a key role in supporting the company’s large-scale real estate developments and project financings
- Reporting directly to the General Counsel, Real Estate, you will lead contract drafting, negotiation, and the execution of real estate acquisitions, power matters, and project finance transactions
- This role is a high-impact position that sits at the intersection of energy infrastructure and digital development
- You will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timely and strategic legal support across all of Crusoe’s data center projects
- Energy Infrastructure & Utilities: Negotiate and execute Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), power procurement contracts, interconnection agreements, and other utility-related documents
- Utility Relations: Support the digital infrastructure and power teams in direct interactions and negotiations with local utility providers
- Construction Support: Provide specialized legal counsel to the construction team regarding the power and energy-related aspects of data center builds
- Real Estate Due Diligence: Conduct comprehensive legal reviews of title, survey, environmental assessments (Phase I/II), geotechnical reports, planning, and zoning/land use matters to mitigate development risks
- Property Rights: Proactively address title matters, property rights, and boundary disputes to ensure unencumbered project development
- Legal Operations: Develop and maintain a suite of standardized legal templates and contract clauses to streamline negotiations and ensure consistency across the portfolio
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Power Engineering, Construction, Finance, and Tax to translate complex legal concepts into actionable business objectives
Our take
Crusoe is tackling one of the biggest challenges facing the digital age: the enormous energy demand of data centres and AI infrastructure. As AI models grow more powerful, they require immense computing power (and therefor electricity) to train and operate. This surge in energy use has put some pressure on power grids, driven up costs, and raised environmental concerns. Crusoe is on a mission to make this process more sustainable by finding smarter, cleaner, and more efficient ways to power the data centres that drive modern computing.
The company started out by putting wasted energy to work. Originally known as Crusoe Energy, it captured natural gas that would otherwise be burned off ("flared") at remote oil sites and used it to power modular data centres. Today, Crusoe has evolved into a major player in AI infrastructure, designing and operating large-scale data centres near renewable or stranded energy sources. It's now one of a handful of "neocloud" companies (next-generation cloud providers focused on flexible, efficient computing for AI workloads). And its facilities are helping tech giants like OpenAI handle the massive computing requirements of training advanced AI models.
Recently, Crusoe has attracted some huge investor attention, tripling its valuation to over $10B and raising almost $1.4B in its 2025 funding round. It's building OpenAI's first major US data centre campus and even experimenting with bold new frontiers. In partnership with Starcloud, Crusoe plans to deploy the world's first space-based cloud computing infrastructure, powered by solar energy and orbiting the Earth by 2027. If successful, this could redefine how and where computing happens, opening up a cleaner, virtually limitless source of energy for AI's next generation.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$1.4bn
SERIES E
Dec 2024
$600m
SERIES D
Total funding: $2.5bn
Company benefits
- Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
- Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
- 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
- Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life's challenges
Company HQ
Union Station, Denver, CO
Leadership
Cully Cavness
(Co-Founder, COO & President)Began their career as an Energy Infrastructure Research Fellow before spending 3 years as a Business Development Manager at Recurrent Engineering and serving as CFO of Sword & Plough. They left their role as VP of Highlands Natural Resources to co-found Crusoe Energy Systems.
Chase Lochmiller
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Crusoe in 2018, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a Quantitative Trade at Jump Trading Group, and a Managing Director of Algorithmic Trading at KCG Holdings.
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