Mechanical Engineer

The power grid was built for a world that no longer exists. Centralized generation, hundred-mile transmission lines, decade-long permitting cycles. Meanwhile, demand is exploding: data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.

American Turbines is designing small modular gas turbines, purpose-built for distributed power generation. Machines designed from a blank sheet to be manufactured at scale, clustered in arrays. Hundreds of units operating in parallel, dynamically matching load like a compute cluster matches demand. We are a seed-stage company backed by the investors behind SpaceX, Boom Supersonic, and Hadrian.

About the Role

The Mechanical Engineer turns a running turbine core into a product that ships: the package, the frame, the mounts, the enclosure, the baseplate, vibration isolation, lift and transport provisions, and the systems that keep the machine fed, cooled, and serviceable in the field. You will move across the architecture as the machine matures, rotor hardware one month, packaging and cooling the next. A turbine that runs on a test stand is a science project until it is deployable, repeatable, and serviceable at scale.

What We're Looking For

You have built hardware that shipped, installed, and ran. Gensets, engines, turbines, compressors, skids, or comparable high-power equipment. You design for manufacture and assembly from the first sketch and you know what looks clean on a screen and fails in the field.

You understand the tradeoffs between footprint, cost, serviceability, and time to install, and you move from packaging concept to released drawings without losing rigor. Turbomachinery or similar experience preferred.