Counsel - Datacenter Development & Infrastructure
About the job
- A Juris Doctor degree or foreign equivalent from an American Bar Association-accredited law school is required.
- The candidate must be an actively licensed attorney.
- The candidate must have at least 7 years of legal experience.
- The candidate must be admitted to the bar and in good standing in at least one U.S. state.
- The candidate must be willing to travel occasionally to project sites and different offices for up to a week at a time.
- The candidate must be willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed.
- The candidate must satisfy International Traffic in Arms Regulations eligibility: be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
- Provide expert legal guidance on developing large-scale datacenter infrastructure and supporting utilities, including land acquisition and development, datacenter construction, on-site power generation, electrical transmission and distribution, gas pipelines and fuel supply, water and wastewater systems, communications and fiber infrastructure, transportation access, worker accommodations, spaceports, and other advanced critical infrastructure projects.
- Draft and negotiate land purchases, easements, rights-of-way, leases, power purchase agreements, interconnection agreements, fuel supply contracts, pipeline capacity agreements, and other real estate and commercial transaction documents needed to bring datacenter and infrastructure projects online.
- Advise on municipal, county, state, and federal requirements concerning zoning, building and construction permitting, environmental reviews, power generation and utility interconnections, gas pipeline development and safety, water rights and wastewater treatment, air permitting, and related infrastructure.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to brief county, state, and federal regulators, including public utility commissions, environmental agencies, pipeline safety regulators, and permitting authorities.
- Negotiate complex construction contracts, engineering-procurement-construction agreements, vendor and supply contracts, and agreements related to datacenter buildout, power generation facilities, utility infrastructure, fuel procurement and delivery, and spaceport development.
- At least 7 years of experience with real estate, land use, and/or large-scale power and utility infrastructure development issues, preferably involving hyperscale datacenter or major industrial project development.
- Knowledge or experience with natural gas project development, power generation contracts and operations, on-site turbine generation, gas pipeline and fuel supply agreements, power purchase agreements, utility interconnection processes, transmission planning, and mineral rights or surface use agreements.
- Familiarity with the Texas regulatory environment, including Public Utility Commission requirements, Texas Railroad Commission rules for oil and gas operations, and air and water permitting for power generation facilities.
About the company
SpaceX builds and launches reusable rockets and spacecraft for NASA, the military, and companies, and it runs Starlink, a satellite internet service for homes and businesses. In 2020, its Dragon capsule became the first privately built spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station. Its Falcon 9 rocket lands its first stage so the booster can fly again, which cuts launch costs, while Starlink beams internet from low-orbit satellites to small dishes for a monthly fee. SpaceX also owns xAI, maker of the Grok chatbot and owner of the social network X, and is building Starship, a fully reusable rocket meant to carry people to the Moon and Mars. Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, and it is based in Starbase, Texas.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Starbase, Texas
Founded
2002
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Starlink demand keeps compounding: subscribers doubled to 12 million in the year to June 2026.
- Room to grow: SpaceX listed 2,693 open roles in October 2026, over a third of them for Starlink.
- Rivals rent its AI supercomputers: Claude maker Anthropic agreed in May 2026 to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion a month.
What critics are saying
- Stock grants swing hard: shares closed between $108 and $211 in the four months after the June 2026 IPO.
- Expect long weeks: 1,724 of SpaceX's 2,693 job posts in October 2026 mention extended hours and weekend work.
- AI spending outruns sales: SpaceX put $15.8 billion into AI data centers in the June 2026 quarter, double its revenue.
What makes SpaceX unique
- SpaceX is the world's busiest launcher by far: its 165 orbital launches in 2025 were nearly double China's total.
- Starlink carries the profits: it earned $1.7 billion in the June 2026 quarter, while rockets and AI lost $1.8 billion.
- Elon Musk has the final say: super-voting shares give him about 82% of shareholder votes after the June 2026 IPO.
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0%Simply Wall St has named three growth stocks to watch in October 2026: Sandisk, Space Exploration Technologies, and Seagate Technology Holdings. It says analysts expect strong earnings momentum from all three, even as higher fuel and transport costs linked to the US war with Iran squeeze households. Sandisk, a flash storage maker, generates about $20.2 billion from its storage portfolio and has a market cap of roughly $204.2 billion. Demand for its enterprise SSDs is tied to AI and cloud growth. Space Exploration Technologies earns about $13.9 billion from Connectivity, $5.1 billion from AI, and $4.1 billion from Space, with a market cap of roughly $2,017.2 billion. Starlink is its main revenue driver and its only division reporting an operating profit. Seagate makes about $12.2 billion from storage solutions and has a market cap of roughly $145.3 billion.
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CoreWeave shares fell more than 15% on October 14 as investors questioned whether the AI computing provider is borrowing too much. The company has more than $50 billion in debt and operating leases, and its senior notes due 2032 briefly traded at yields near 15%, against a 9.625% coupon. Visible Alpha expects CoreWeave's free cash flow to be negative $25 billion this year, and negative $28 billion in 2027 and $18 billion in 2028. It held about $6 billion in cash at the end of the second quarter. SpaceX, which acquired xAI and Cursor this year, is renting out spare AI computing capacity. Its deals with Anthropic, Google Cloud, Reflection AI, and another customer total about $3.4 billion a month. It ended the second quarter with roughly $100 billion in cash and $39.4 billion in debt.
Tesla unveiled its redesigned Roadster on Thursday night at SpaceX's rocket test site in McGregor, Texas, nearly nine years after Elon Musk first showed the idea in 2017. Production is due to start in 2028, so the car is unlikely to lift near-term earnings. Using cold-gas thrusters borrowed from SpaceX and a suction system, the car drove upside down on a curved ramp, vaulted off it, and flipped in mid-air before landing. Musk said it can reach 60 mph in under a second and top 230 mph. It is unclear whether the stunt features would be legal on public roads. Deposits are $50,000 for the Performance version and $250,000 for the Thrust version. Analyst Gene Munster called the event an "engineering flex with no commercial value beyond embarrassing traditional car makers." Tesla shares rose 5% in pre-market trading on Friday; SpaceX gained 2%.
SpaceX has announced a new Grok Voice model and says Starlink call centres already use it to answer 20,000 customer calls a day. The company said roughly 70% of those calls are resolved without humans. Grok Voice agents verify customers, troubleshoot Starlink hardware, issue credits, and ship replacement equipment. They can handle these tasks in multiple languages. Starlink serves more than 6 million active customers worldwide. Rather than build a large human customer-service operation, SpaceX is betting AI can serve its multilingual base. Rivals are moving the same way. OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 with call support in July, Google has launched similar enterprise systems, and Meta's Muse can handle phone calls in a beta feature.