About the Role
American Terawatt is building a new industrial electric grid for the United States, serving large industrial loads with advanced power transmission systems. This role is key to executing power development at a national scale, making interconnection fast, simple, and cheap.
Responsibilities
- Identify and advance transmission development opportunities based on power availability, interconnection potential, permitting feasibility, project economics, and suitability for American Terawatt’s broader transmission network.
- Lead diligence across grid interconnection, transmission routing, permitting, land, power availability, and project delivery timelines.
- Work directly with utilities, RTOs/ISOs, generation owners, landowners, developers, and large-load customers to advance projects and secure necessary agreements and rights.
- Evaluate alternative development pathways and make tradeoffs across schedule, cost, interconnection risk, permitting, constructability, and commercial value.
- Develop project economics and support the commercial structuring and negotiation of transmission development opportunities.
- Identify critical development risks early and proactively drive them toward resolution.
- Partner closely with engineering, project management, procurement, legal, and commercial teams to move transmission projects from early-stage opportunity through development and toward construction.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience advancing complex energy infrastructure projects through multiple stages of development, including origination, diligence, interconnection, permitting, commercial structuring, and execution.
- Track record of personally owning meaningful development workstreams and driving projects toward commercial or investment decisions.
- Strong understanding of project economics and experience building or evaluating financial models for large-scale energy infrastructure projects.
- Working knowledge of grid interconnection, transmission development, permitting, utility coordination, and realistic project delivery timelines.
- Experience navigating complex projects involving multiple external counterparties, regulatory requirements, and competing technical and commercial constraints.
Skills
- Transmission development
- Power development
- Energy infrastructure development
- Grid interconnection
- Permitting
- Project economics
- Financial modeling
- Utility coordination
- HVDC transmission
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation package commensurate with experience, including salary and equity participation.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including 75% coverage for dependents and spouses.
- Up to $300/month reimbursement for gym and wellness expenses, or Bay Club membership for SF-based employees.
- Lunch provided daily when working from the office.
- Unlimited PTO with manager approval.
- Company-wide office closures for one week in June and one week in December.
- Apple laptop provided.
- Employee contribution 401(k) program.
About the Company
- American Terawatt is building a new industrial electric grid for the United States.
- We design and deploy advanced power transmission systems, serving large industrial loads, hundreds of megawatts at a time.
- Our systems deliver electric power to everything from frontier AI datacenters to highly automated manufacturing, refineries, mines, and more.
- We make interconnection fast, simple, and cheap.
- On our network, generation owners get their projects online faster, delivering abundant power at competitive prices.
- The backbone of American Terawatt’s network is based on long-distance HVDC transmission, anchored by software-defined ‘Macrogrids’ which actively manage local transmission between generation, storage, and loads.
