Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Site Selection Associate
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.
*Note: Preference for those who can be in our San Francisco office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
Responsibilities
- Model the Business: Design, manage, and pressure-test complex financial models across the data center investment lifecycle - including lease, acquisitions, and development.
- Own Leadership Reporting: Prepare and deliver materials for senior management and the Board.
- Execute Transactions: Support negotiation of LOIs, PSAs, and lease agreements, and manage diligence and closing processes through to funding.
- Shape Location Strategy: Help define which markets and submarkets to pursue based on power availability, customer demand, and competitive positioning.
- Evaluate Opportunities: Underwrite individual sites and leases in partnership with the power, design, and construction teams, surfacing risks and recommendations.
- Build Market Intelligence: Maintain a database of land comps, transaction comps, competitor activity, and powered-land pipeline across target markets - and translate it into investment recommendations.
Requirements
- Background: 2+ years of experience in infrastructure or real estate investment - modeling deals, capital markets, and both acquisition and lease transactions.
- Industry Familiarity: Prior exposure to data center, industrial, or infrastructure asset classes.
- Communication Skills: Ability to distill complicated financial analysis into clean, executive-ready decks - strong presentation and storytelling skills are essential.
Nice to Have
- Experience at investment banking, real estate, or data center development, commercial brokerage, or institutional investment platforms.
- Working familiarity with utility interconnection processes, transmission constraints, and behind-the-meter generation.
We Offer
- Compensation: Annual salary range of $154K – $205K.
- Benefits:
- Generous cash & equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
- Flexible paid time off plan
About the Company
Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast, Lambda has notable investors including TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove. We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG. Our values are publicly available: Lambda Careers.
Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.