Legal Counsel, Real Estate Financing & Joint Ventures
Crusoe is an AI infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates AI data centers and a cloud platform. It provides managed AI services, GPU compute, model fine-tuning and inference, and infrastructure operations for organizations building and deploying AI workloads.
Maintainer signals as of 8/20/2026
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About Crusoe
Crusoe, the AI factory company, provides Crusoe Cloud and Crusoe Intelligence Foundry for AI development and production. Its offerings include managed inference, serverless fine-tuning, high-performance NVIDIA and AMD compute, accelerated storage, RDMA networking, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and operations tooling. The company also designs, builds, and operates modular AI data-center infrastructure using an energy-first approach, serving customers that need scalable training, inference, and AI platform infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will lead contract drafting, negotiation, and execution for real estate acquisitions, joint ventures, and project finance transactions. You will support financing and recapitalizations, coordinate legal due diligence, draft customer leases and data center service agreements, maintain standardized legal documents, and advise cross-functional stakeholders on complex legal matters.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school
- Active bar admission in any state
- 5–7 years of experience focused on real estate acquisitions, project finance, or power procurement
- Strong knowledge of construction financing and loan due diligence processes
- Excellent negotiation and drafting skills
- Strong judgment and analytical abilities
- Experience with data centers or large-scale industrial development projects is preferred
Responsibilities
- Review, negotiate, and execute real estate agreements from inception to closing
- Support financing, debt raises, and large-scale recapitalizations
- Conduct and coordinate legal due diligence for construction loans and joint ventures
- Draft, negotiate, and execute customer leases and data center service agreements
- Support legal execution of structured financial transactions
- Develop and maintain standardized legal documents, templates, and clauses
- Partner with Power Engineering, Construction, Finance, and Tax
- Present complex legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays and leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits for parking and transit
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks and programs specific to location