Associate Corporate Counsel, Crusoe Energy Systems
Commercial Contracts
$136-165k
+ Restricted Stock Units + Bonus
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$136-165k
+ Restricted Stock Units + Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Relevant Experience: 5+ years of experience practicing corporate or commercial law, with a focus on transactional work and commercial agreements (e.g., equipment purchase agreements, services agreements)
- Industry Experience: Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment is strongly preferred
- Legal & Analytical Expertise: Proven ability to analyze complex legal issues, identify solutions, and communicate them effectively
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
- Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen eye for detail
- Work Ethic: Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities and work as part of a team
- Education: Juris Doctorate (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school
- Bar Admission: Active and in good standing with the applicable State Bar
- Industry Knowledge: Experience in energy, infrastructure, or technology industries is a plus
Desirable
- Procurement or Supply Chain Expertise: Experience with procurement departments, supplier development, or supply chain processes
- Data Center Experience: Experience supporting the development, construction, or operation of data centers
- Manufacturing Experience: Experience with manufacturers and suppliers
- Energy & Power Experience: Experience with power or energy infrastructure projects
- Information Technology and SaaS Expertise: Experience with IT and SaaS agreements
What the job involves
- Crusoe is seeking a motivated, practical and solution-oriented attorney to review, draft and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements
- This position sits within Crusoe’s Legal team and will play a key role in supporting our rapidly growing infrastructure, procurement, and operations functions
- The ideal candidate will be a law graduate with 5+ years of experience drafting, advising on and negotiating commercial transactions and contracts, particularly including working across business, procurement and legal teams on vendor services and supply agreements, purchase orders, and confidentiality agreements
- While not required, experience with real estate development and infrastructure projects, data center development and manufacturing is extremely helpful. (#INDCORP)
- Commercial Transactions & Contracts: Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements, including equipment purchase agreements, consulting agreements, master services agreements, energy supply agreements, and non-disclosure agreements
- Complex Deal Exposure: Support negotiations on innovative and high-impact commercial arrangements, including new technologies, energy infrastructure, and data center development
- Contract Lifecycle Management: Participate in improving and managing Crusoe’s contract intake, review, execution, and post-execution processes to keep commercial operations running smoothly
- Legal Research & Analysis: Conduct legal research and provide sound legal advice on a range of legal and business issues
- Risk Mitigation: Analyze and mitigate legal and commercial risks associated with business transactions
- Legal Compliance: Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with business stakeholders (e.g., procurement, engineering, operations, finance) to understand their needs and translate them into clear and concise legal terms
- Relationship Building: Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, customers, and legal counsel
- Issue Resolution: Proactively identify and address potential legal issues
- Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Effectively communicate complex legal concepts to non-lawyers in a clear and concise manner
- Internal & External Coordination: Interact with colleagues across various departments, including procurement, engineering, finance, and operations. Engage with external counsel and vendors as needed
- Process & System Improvement: Contribute to the development and improvement of internal legal processes, workflows and procedures
- Template & Playbook Development: Develop and maintain commercial contract templates and playbooks
- Team Training & Development: Conduct training sessions for business teams on contract-related matters
- Cross-Team Support: Work collaboratively across the Legal Team with the opportunity to cross-train and support other practice areas as business needs evolve
- Innovation & Efficiency: Drive efficiency and innovation within the Legal department
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 $1.4B in its latest 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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Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
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
LoDo, 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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