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About the Role
Crusoe is the AI factory company, on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. Crusoe designs, builds, and operates vertically integrated AI infrastructure — from energy generation and land acquisition to AI-optimized data center campuses and Crusoe Cloud, its AI cloud platform. With a development pipeline exceeding tens of GWs across multiple U.S. campuses, real estate, land, and power siting decisions sit at the foundation of every project Crusoe brings to market.
Responsibilities
- Lead financial due diligence on prospective land acquisitions, ground leases, and site control agreements.
- Build site-level financial models to support go/no-go TCO investment decisions.
- Advise on and help negotiate land purchase agreements, ground leases, option agreements, and related real estate instruments.
- Structure deals to optimize for financeability.
- Support negotiation of economic development incentives, tax abatements, and PILOT agreements.
- Own ongoing financial tracking of each land/real estate asset across its lifecycle.
- Maintain a portfolio-level view of land and lease obligations.
- Partner with Accounting on proper treatment of land, leases, and related capital costs.
- Serve as the finance point of contact for Real Estate, Development, Power, Legal, and Project Finance teams.
- Provide financial analysis and materials for board, investor, and lender due diligence.
- Build scalable processes and tools as Crusoe's land portfolio grows.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in real estate finance, land acquisition, project finance, or corporate development, ideally within data centers, energy, industrial, or infrastructure sectors.
- Demonstrated experience leading financial due diligence on land or real estate transactions, including modeling acquisition and lease economics.
- Working knowledge of ground leases, purchase options, easements, and real estate/economic development incentive structures.
- Understanding of how real estate/land structures interact with project financing.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills; comfort building models from scratch under time pressure.
- Experience managing a portfolio of assets over a multi-year lifecycle.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and negotiation skills.
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA, JD, or equivalent a plus.
Skills
- Financial due diligence
- Commercial structuring
- Lifecycle management
- Financial modeling
- Negotiation
- Real estate finance
- Land acquisition
- Project finance
- Corporate development
- Data centers
- Energy
- Industrial
- Infrastructure
- Ground leases
- Purchase options
- Easements
- Economic development incentives
- Tax abatements
- PILOTs
- Project financing
- Capital markets
- Structured finance
- Analytical skills
- Cross-functional collaboration
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA
- JD
Salary/Compensations
- $235,000-$275,000 + Bonus
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks & programs specific to location
About the Company
- Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
- As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads.
- When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
- We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck.
- We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
- We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
- If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
Equal Opportunity
- Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.