About Volta

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

About The Role

This Legal Counsel role will support Volta's Executive team and Legal / Compliance team in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating the agreements that underpin the company's fundraising, strategic direction and operations — from capital raises with investors / debt financings, vendor / procurement contracts to customer / partnership agreements.

This role works also closely with the Delivery, Procurement, and Corporate Development teams across a fast-moving infrastructure business, and is well suited to a lawyer who enjoys getting close to the commercial detail.

What You Will Be Doing

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts, including vendor, procurement, and customer agreements, factoring in commercial risk, operational requirements, and bankability considerations for financing

• Advise internal stakeholders on contractual risk, obligations, and negotiation strategy

• Support procurement and delivery teams on equipment, construction, and services agreements for data center projects

• Assist with corporate and structuring functions (entity structuring / formation, corporate workflows, governance negotiations)

• Maintain and improve contract templates, playbooks, and approval workflows

• Track contractual obligations and support compliance with commercial terms

• Collaborate with the General Counsel / VP Legal on regulatory, tax and policy matters as needed

• Support due diligence for partnerships, financings, and other transactions

• Stay current on relevant legal and regulatory developments affecting the business

What You Bring

• 4+ years of experience as a commercial lawyer, in-house or at a law firm, ideally supporting infrastructure, technology, or energy clients

• J.D. and active bar membership in a relevant jurisdiction (US / England)

• Strong commercial contract drafting and negotiation skills

• Experience with vendor, procurement, or construction-related agreements is a plus

• Ability to manage a high volume of contracts and competing priorities

• Excellent judgment, attention to detail, and communication skills

• Comfortable working directly with business stakeholders outside of Legal

• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

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What We Offer

At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.
As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary

• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success

• Retirement/pension contributions

• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits

• Generous number of vacation days each year

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accessibility

Volta is committed to providing an accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please contact us at . We will work with you to identify reasonable accommodations that enable you to participate fully in the hiring process.

Candidate Privacy Notice

By applying, you consent to the processing of your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the UK GDPR, EU GDPR and relevant US state privacy regulations. Your data will be shared only with those involved in the hiring process and will not be used for unrelated purposes. For details, see our Recruitment & Candidate Privacy Notice.

Note to Recruitment Agencies

Volta does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited submissions, including those sent directly to hiring managers or employees, will be treated as the property of Volta. No agency fees will be payable unless a valid, signed recruitment agreement is in place, and the agency has been specifically engaged for the relevant vacancy.

About Volta

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

About The Role

The Quality Function Manager owns quality across the Volta fleet – from vendor quality and site inspection through to the test and commissioning standards that prove a facility is ready for compute. In an organization built on repeatable delivery, quality is what makes repetition worth having.

You will lead the quality leads embedded in each project team through a functional line, set the standards they work to, and build the assurance programs that keep every site honest. The role works closely with safety, commissioning and the DSX team.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own Volta's quality strategy, standards and management system across all projects

• Provide functional leadership to the quality leads embedded in each project team

• Set inspection and test plan standards across all major packages

• Build vendor quality and factory surveillance programs for critical equipment

• Own non-conformance management and drive root-cause resolution across the fleet

• Set the quality standards that underpin commissioning from level 1 through level 5

• Run quality audits and assurance reviews across active sites

• Embed right-first-time practices and share learning across projects

What You Bring

• Quality leadership on data center or mission-critical construction programs is essential

• Deep familiarity with commissioning practice on complex, MEP-heavy facilities

• Experience building or running quality systems across multiple projects

• A strong record in vendor quality and factory acceptance for critical equipment

• Structured root-cause problem solving and clear reporting

• The credibility to hold projects and contractors to standard

• Willingness to travel regularly across European sites

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What We Offer

At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.
As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary

• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success

• Retirement/pension contributions

• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits

• Generous number of vacation days each year

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accessibility

Volta is committed to providing an accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please contact us at . We will work with you to identify reasonable accommodations that enable you to participate fully in the hiring process.

Candidate Privacy Notice

By applying, you consent to the processing of your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the UK GDPR, EU GDPR and relevant US state privacy regulations. Your data will be shared only with those involved in the hiring process and will not be used for unrelated purposes. For details, see our Recruitment & Candidate Privacy Notice.

Note to Recruitment Agencies

Volta does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited submissions, including those sent directly to hiring managers or employees, will be treated as the property of Volta. No agency fees will be payable unless a valid, signed recruitment agreement is in place, and the agency has been specifically engaged for the relevant vacancy.

About Volta

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

About The Role

Volta builds and operates large scale GPU compute infrastructure for frontier AI customers. Every deployment is a project: a site, a customer, a hardware generation, a power and cooling envelope, a network fabric, and a date the cluster has to be producing useful work.

Our project teams own those deployments end to end. Each is roughly five senior engineers spanning data center operations, network engineering, and systems and platform engineering. They join during the discovery phase of a deal, when the technical shape and the commitments are still being formed, and stay with the project until the cluster is handed over to steady state operations.

As Head of Project Engineering you own that function. You lead multiple project teams delivering concurrently across sites, you are accountable for what Volta commits to technically during deal discovery and for whether we then deliver it, and you own the standard by which a cluster is declared done.

This is a leadership role with deep technical substance. You will not be running these deployments from a spreadsheet.

What You Will Be Doing

Deal Discovery and Commitments

• Own technical input into deals from the discovery phase: site feasibility, power and cooling envelope, hardware and fabric options, deployment sequencing, and what is realistic on what timeline.

• Pressure test what is being committed before it is signed. You are the person who says a date is not achievable while that is still cheap to hear.

• Contribute the technical basis for cost models, bills of materials, and capacity assumptions, and make the assumptions explicit so they can be revisited when reality moves.

• Support customer technical due diligence and, where relevant, lender or investor technical review.

Project Delivery

• Hold accountability for delivery across a portfolio of concurrent deployments: scope, technical quality, and readiness against the committed date.

• Establish the delivery model each project team follows, from facility handover through rack and stack, power on, fabric build, and burn-in to acceptance.

• Own escalation. When a project is off track, you are the one who diagnoses whether it is a supply problem, a facility problem, a design problem, or a team problem, and who resolves it.

• Allocate people across projects and manage the reality that senior specialists are scarce and demand is lumpy.

• Own risk across the portfolio, including the dependencies that sit outside Volta.

Handover to Steady State Operations

• Define and enforce what "done" means: acceptance criteria, performance validation, documentation, runbook completeness, monitoring coverage, and operational readiness.

• Own the handover to steady state operations as a controlled transition with an agreed definition of complete, not a gradual disengagement.

• Make sure the operational and SLA commitments Volta has made are actually supportable by what the project team leaves behind.

• Close the loop back into engineering: what went wrong, what was manual that should not have been, and what needs to change in the platform or the process before the next site.

Organization and People

• Build and lead the project engineering function: team leads, project engineers, and the senior specialists who make up the teams.

• Hire senior technical people into a role that requires travel, ambiguity, and site presence, and be honest with candidates about what that involves.

• Run the management basics properly: 1:1s, performance conversations, development, and succession for a function where key person risk is real.

• Establish a career path for project engineers so that the role is a destination rather than a rotation people try to leave.

Partners and Vendors

• Own the technical relationship with OEMs and integration partners through delivery, including holding them to their commitments.

• Work with facility and colocation partners on demarcation, handover, and the boundaries of who owns what physically and operationally.

• Manage partner-delivered scope where deployments use external field services or managed services capacity.

Standards and Repeatability

• Turn deployments from bespoke projects into a repeatable process. The second site should be materially easier than the first, and the fifth should not need you in the room.

• Own the reference deployment model, standard acceptance test suites, and the documentation set every project produces.

• Work with platform and network engineering so that what the project teams do by hand today becomes automated tomorrow.

What You Bring

• 8+ years in data center, infrastructure, or large scale technical delivery, with at least 3 years leading multiple teams or leading through team leads.

• Track record delivering large scale compute deployments end to end, at a scale where power, cooling, and logistics are constraints rather than details.

• Real technical depth in at least two of: data center facilities and power and cooling, high performance network fabric, or compute and systems engineering. Enough credibility in the others to lead senior specialists who know more than you do about their own area.

• Familiarity with GPU cluster deployment: rack scale systems, high density power, liquid cooling, and the acceptance and validation work that proves a cluster is fit for training workloads.

• Experience owning delivery against commercial commitments, where dates and acceptance criteria have contractual and financial consequences.

• Multi-vendor OEM and partner management under delivery pressure, including holding vendors to schedule and quality without breaking the relationship.

• Experience running concurrent projects with shared, constrained specialist resource.

• Comfortable in commercial conversations: contributing to deal shaping, feasibility, and cost basis, and translating technical constraints for commercial and customer audiences.

• Willing and able to travel to sites and partner locations regularly, including during critical delivery phases.

• Clear communicator who can hold an uncomfortable position with senior stakeholders and customers when the technical reality requires it.

Nice to Have (But Not Essential)

None of these are required.

• Experience with NVIDIA reference architectures and rack scale systems, and with the certification and validation process that comes with them.

• Direct liquid cooling deployment experience, including CDU integration and facility demarcation.

• Background at a neocloud, hyperscaler, HPC center, or specialist data center integrator.

• Experience deploying in the Nordics or in sites with unusual power, climate, or grid characteristics.

• Exposure to technical due diligence for lenders or investors on infrastructure projects.

• Familiarity with structured delivery frameworks, and a clear view on where they add value and where they become overhead.

• Experience introducing automation or tooling into a delivery function that previously ran on people and spreadsheets.

• Fluency with AI-assisted workflows for planning, documentation, and reporting.

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What We Offer

At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.
As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary

• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success

• Retirement/pension contributions

• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits

• Generous number of vacation days each year

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity

Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills, qualifications, experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Accessibility

Volta is committed to providing an accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please contact us at . We will work with you to identify reasonable accommodations that enable you to participate fully in the hiring process.

Candidate Privacy Notice

By applying, you consent to the processing of your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the UK GDPR, EU GDPR and relevant US state privacy regulations. Your data will be shared only with those involved in the hiring process and will not be used for unrelated purposes. For details, see our Recruitment & Candidate Privacy Notice.

Note to Recruitment Agencies

Volta does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited submissions, including those sent directly to hiring managers or employees, will be treated as the property of Volta. No agency fees will be payable unless a valid, signed recruitment agreement is in place, and the agency has been specifically engaged for the relevant vacancy.