Director Legal Energy
Nscale is a London-based, full-stack AI cloud and infrastructure company that provides GPU compute, managed AI services, orchestration software, data centers, and power infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
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About Nscale
Nscale builds and operates vertically integrated AI infrastructure spanning software, GPU compute, networking, storage, purpose-built data centers, and power. Its active cloud platform offers self-service inference endpoints, fine-tuning, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, virtual machines, and GPU clusters.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead legal work for power, generation capacity, and energy services supporting data-centre campuses. You will negotiate energy and infrastructure agreements, advise on commercial risk allocation, support interconnection programs and site development, manage outside counsel, and monitor relevant energy regulations.
Requirements
- 7+ years of legal experience in energy, power, infrastructure, or major projects
- Experience negotiating utility, interconnection, energy supply, PPA, generation, equipment supply, and O&M agreements
- Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or energy-intensive projects
- Experience working across multiple US jurisdictions and managing local counsel
- Knowledge of energy and infrastructure risk allocation
- Ability to negotiate multiple high-value contracts and drive them to signature
- Ability to explain legal and commercial risk to non-lawyers and senior stakeholders
- Experience working with real estate, construction, project finance, insurance, regulatory, and technical counterparts
- Qualified attorney admitted in at least one US state or the District of Columbia in good standing
Responsibilities
- Lead negotiations for power procurement, utility supply, interconnection, and transmission service arrangements
- Draft and negotiate power purchase agreements, energy supply agreements, and renewable-energy arrangements
- Negotiate development, supply, installation, and O&M agreements for generation, storage, microgrids, and critical power infrastructure
- Support interconnection and energization programs
- Advise on energy and power risk allocation
- Partner with real estate, construction, procurement, finance, and operations counterparts
- Assess power availability, utility constraints, and energy-related contractual risks for site development
- Maintain energy and power procurement templates, playbooks, and contracting positions
- Run counterparty comment rounds and drive consistent contracting positions
- Coordinate energy-related insurance, guarantees, and bonding requirements
- Manage US outside counsel, including scope, budgets, and advice quality
- Monitor and advise on energy procurement and grid-access regulatory developments
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan participation
