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# Senior Manager, Data Center Pre-Development & Site Selection at Radiant

- **Company:** Radiant
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/radiant/51add28e-594f-4006-9ddd-41c65d41eeb8

## Job description

Company Overview:

Radiant is redefining how AI infrastructure is built.

We design and operate AI-native cloud platforms engineered for sovereignty, performance, and scale. Our infrastructure powers GPU-native workloads, multi-tenant control planes, and high-performance AI systems designed for the most demanding environments.

We are not building a generic cloud. We are building purpose-built AI infrastructure — from powered land, to compute, to software.

As we scale, we're building this organisation from the ground up. We're looking for people who'd rather build the playbook than inherit one — who are comfortable doing the work themselves as well as directing others, and who can adapt as fast as our strategy does. This is a startup model: attitude and adaptability matter more to us than years of experience or the size of team you've previously managed.

This is a cross-functional role requiring strong technical, commercial, and delivery capabilities, with exposure to executive stakeholders and landowners, brokers, utilities, planning authorities, and the internal Design, Power and Legal teams.

## What You'll Do

As part of the Development team, you'll own Radiant's site pipeline across Europe and the US hands-on, from the first conversation with a landowner or utility through to a signed option and a site that's ready for design. There's a growing established pipeline and playbook to date, but you'll be owning both as you go.

## Key Responsibilities

Site Sourcing & Pipeline

- Source and screen land, powered-shell and colocation opportunities across Europe and the US, working directly with landowners, brokers and utilities.
- Build and maintain the site pipeline and evaluation criteria from scratch — there's no inherited process to follow.
- Negotiate heads of terms and options directly, with legal support rather than a dedicated negotiation team.

Technical & Commercial Screening

- Run first-pass technical screening (power availability, grid queue position, fibre, land use, planning risk) yourself before looping in specialist input.
- Coordinate site visits and due diligence, often travelling at short notice.

Cross-functional Coordination

- Work directly with Power & Utilities, Design & Engineering and commercial to pressure-test each site before it's committed.
- Brief the CDO and management on site recommendations with clear, first-hand analysis - not a summary of someone else's work.

What You Bring:

- Attitude matters more to us here than number of years of experience.
- Experience sourcing or evaluating sites, land or powered assets for data centres, energy, or infrastructure projects - however many years that took you.
- Comfort working directly with landowners, brokers, utilities and local authorities without a large team around you.
- A bias to getting on a plane or in a car to see a site yourself rather than relying on a report.
- Working knowledge of what makes a site viable for 100MW+ GPU infrastructure (power, land, fibre, planning).
- Ability to structure and negotiate heads of terms and options, or a fast willingness to learn how.
- Comfort holding a pipeline in a spreadsheet on day one, and building the system that eventually replaces it, yourself.
- Genuine technical competency in site viability — this is not a brokerage or agency-style role.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):

- Experience in both European and US real estate or utility markets.
- Existing relationships with colocation operators, land agents or utilities.
- Exposure to grid connection processes (TSO/DNO in Europe, utility/ISO in the US).

Qualities we look for:

- Set the standard: Every single day, you spot opportunities to constructively shake things up.
- Inspire the change: There's no blueprint for the future. You'll embrace challenges and change.
- You're real and you're true to yourself: We cherish and celebrate diversity so you'll feel right at home whoever you are and whoever you're talking to, you treat everyone the same.
- Get stuck in: You'd rather be building than overseeing. Our strategy will keep evolving, and so will you — attitude and adaptability matter more to us than a fixed playbook or a big team behind you.

## About Radiant

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Radiant is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that builds and operates AI factories combining utility-scale powered land, long-term capital, and a proprietary software platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (portfolio company of Brookfield’s AI Infrastructure Fund)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2026 (formed via merger of Brookfield’s Radiant entity with Ori Industries)
- **Founders**: Mahdi Yahya (Founder & former CEO of Ori, now President of Radiant)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Cloud Computing / Data Centers
- **Target customers**: Sovereign governments, large enterprises, telecommunications providers (B2B, Enterprise, Sovereign)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Building the utility model for AI compute — ubiquitous, always on and offering superior economics. That model will power the intelligence revolution — giving every nation, enterprise and network the foundation to build what comes next.” [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/about)

## Products & Services
- **Radiant AI Cloud**: On-demand AI compute platform offering pre-configured bare metal offerings, GPU instances, and AI-as-a-Service offerings including Inference, Fine-Tuning, Model Registry, Kubernetes, and high-performance Storage.
- **AI Factories (Sovereign/Enterprise Deployments)**: Purpose-built, vertically integrated AI data centers built on the NVIDIA DSX reference design, offering utility-grade economics under long-term contracts for sovereign governments and select enterprises.
- **Powered Land Portfolio**: Access to over 5 GW live and 45 GW of renewable generation capacity globally — enabling rapid deployment of massive AI compute clusters at 20% below-market power costs through a mix of hydro, wind, geothermal, biomass, and dispatchable natural gas. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/)
- **Proprietary Software Platform**: Dependency-free, lightweight architecture built on engineering first principles, featuring intelligent scheduling, automated node management, secure multi-tenancy, and a distributed control panel. Scales consistently from 10K to 100K+ GPUs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed as a private entity. Backed by Brookfield with access to a $100 billion investment program for AI Infrastructure (Brookfield AI Infrastructure Fund).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding — Backed by Brookfield, with “more than $100 billion in deployable capital” available to the fund. Radiant is the first compute deployment vehicle and second seed investment for Brookfield’s AI Infrastructure Fund. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/press-release-launch)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Brookfield (global alternative asset manager), NVIDIA (Cloud Partner — using NVIDIA Blackwell, GB200 NVL72, and upcoming Rubin architectures)
- **Growth Signals**: Recently launched (February 24, 2026) via merger of Radiant and Ori Industries. Targeting the multi-trillion market for integrated AI factories over the next decade. Rapidly expanding Ori’s integrated AI Cloud assets with the latest NVIDIA platforms.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically Integrated Model**: Uniquely combines capital (Brookfield), powered land (5 GW live, 45 GW renewable capacity), proprietary software (built from first principles), and compute (NVIDIA partnership) into a single platform — “from silicon to service.”
- **Cost Advantage**: 20% below-market power costs through a balanced energy mix.
- **Capital Advantage**: Direct pipeline to $100B+ investment program, enabling massive, long-duration projects that competitors cannot match.
- **NVIDIA DSX Reference Design**: First-mover advantage in deploying at scale using NVIDIA’s latest architectures (Blackwell, Rubin) with full design and operational ownership.
- **Sovereign Focus**: Positioned as a partner for nations seeking AI infrastructure independence — a growing geopolitical priority.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale AI Factories Globally**: Rapidly deploy AI compute capacity using the NVIDIA DSX reference design for sovereign governments, enterprises, and telecoms under long-term contracts.
- **Expand the Ori Global AI Cloud**: Continue to grow the on-demand AI cloud for customers needing rapid deployment and flexible capacity.
- **Maintain Vertical Integration**: Control every layer from capital and energy to software and hardware, ensuring operational autonomy and superior economics.
- **Long-term Planning**: Aligned with the long-term demands of the AI economy — thinking in decades, not quarters.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Outcome oriented” — the company values people who get things done, dream bigger, think in longer timelines, and build the assets that make every other ambition possible. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/about)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Flexible work options, including remote and hybrid arrangements.
- **Compensation**: Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives and meaningful stock options.
- **Benefits**: Learning and development support, family-friendly policies with paid parental leave, generous vacation and company holidays.
- **Engineering Culture**: Led by CTO Chris Galloway (previously CTO at Ori, with experience at Broadcom/Symantec) and VP Product Joao Coelho (former AWS Solutions Architect, co-founder of open-source Multy). The team is building a proprietary, dependency-free software platform from first principles — appealing to engineers who want deep technical ownership.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Early-stage (launched Feb 2026) with massive capital backing — employees can shape the company’s trajectory and work on infrastructure at unprecedented scale (10K to 100K+ GPUs).
- **Hiring**: Actively hiring across every department. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/about)

## Sources
1. [radiant.co - Homepage](https://radiant.co/)
2. [radiant.co - About Page](https://radiant.co/about)
3. [radiant.co - Press Release Launch](https://radiant.co/press-release-launch)
4. [Tech.eu - Radiant and Ori Merge](https://tech.eu/2026/02/24/radiant-and-ori-merge-to-deliver-sovereign-ai-cloud-at-utility-scale/)
5. [radiant.co - Blog: The Age of Abundance in AI](https://radiant.co/blog/the-age-of-abundance-in-ai)

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