About American Turbines
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: AI 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 Aerodynamics Engineer will own the aerodynamic design of both the compressor and turbine stages, from meanline modeling through detailed 3D blade shaping and test correlation. You will directly determine the efficiency, stability, and operating range of the machine.
You will define the flow path architecture, set the stage count, and design the blade profiles that make this turbine produce power. You will run the CFD, interpret the results, and make the calls on when the design is good enough to cut metal. When hardware comes back from the shop, you will instrument it, run it, and close the loop between prediction and measurement.
What We’re Looking For
Experience in turbomachinery aerodynamic design, ideally across both compressor and turbine stages. Proficiency with meanline and throughflow tools, 3D CFD (ANSYS CFX, Numeca, or equivalent), and blade parametric design. Familiarity with small gas turbines, turbochargers, or turboshaft engines is strongly preferred.
You understand the tradeoffs between efficiency, surge margin, and manufacturability. You can move fast between conceptual sizing and detailed design without losing rigor. You've seen hardware run and know what CFD gets right and what it gets wrong.
Compensation
$140,000 - $185,000 base.
Generous stock package.
Medical vision, and dental care.
2% matching on 401(k).
","descriptionPlain":"About American Turbines\n\nThe 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: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\nThe Aerodynamics Engineer will own the aerodynamic design of both the compressor and turbine stages, from meanline modeling through detailed 3D blade shaping and test correlation. You will directly determine the efficiency, stability, and operating range of the machine.\n\n\n\nYou will define the flow path architecture, set the stage count, and design the blade profiles that make this turbine produce power. You will run the CFD, interpret the results, and make the calls on when the design is good enough to cut metal. When hardware comes back from the shop, you will instrument it, run it, and close the loop between prediction and measurement.\n\n\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n\nExperience in turbomachinery aerodynamic design, ideally across both compressor and turbine stages. Proficiency with meanline and throughflow tools, 3D CFD (ANSYS CFX, Numeca, or equivalent), and blade parametric design. Familiarity with small gas turbines, turbochargers, or turboshaft engines is strongly preferred.\n\n\n\nYou understand the tradeoffs between efficiency, surge margin, and manufacturability. You can move fast between conceptual sizing and detailed design without losing rigor. You've seen hardware run and know what CFD gets right and what it gets wrong.\n\n\n\nCompensation\n\n$140,000 - $185,000 base.\n\nGenerous stock package.\n\nMedical vision, and dental care.\n\n2% matching on 401(k)."},{"id":"5461d41a-41a0-4cf9-bc4b-1e3285473784","title":"Mechanical Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-22T23:45:42.217+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/5461d41a-41a0-4cf9-bc4b-1e3285473784","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/5461d41a-41a0-4cf9-bc4b-1e3285473784/application","descriptionHtml":"About American Turbines
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 will own everything that turns a running turbine core into a deployable product: the package, the structural frame, the mounts, and the mechanical systems that keep the machine fed, cooled, and serviceable in the field. You own the enclosure, the baseplate, the vibration isolation, and the lift and transport provisions. You will define how the core engine drops into a unit that installs in days, not months, and how hundreds of those units cluster, share infrastructure, and get serviced without a crane and a week of downtime. A turbine that runs on a test stand is a science project until someone makes it deployable, repeatable, and serviceable at scale. That will be your job.
What We're Looking For
Experience designing packaged machinery and mechanical systems: gensets, engines, turbines, compressors, skids, or comparable high-power equipment built to ship and run in the field. You design for manufacture and assembly from the first sketch.
You understand the tradeoffs between footprint, cost, serviceability, and time to install. You move fast from packaging concepts to released drawings without losing rigor. You have seen hardware ship, install, and run, and you know what looks clean on a screen and fails in the field. Familiarity with packaged power, gensets, turbochargers, or small gas turbines is strongly preferred, as is direct experience taking a machine from drawing to deployed unit.
","descriptionPlain":"About American Turbines\n\nThe 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.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\nThe Mechanical Engineer will own everything that turns a running turbine core into a deployable product: the package, the structural frame, the mounts, and the mechanical systems that keep the machine fed, cooled, and serviceable in the field. You own the enclosure, the baseplate, the vibration isolation, and the lift and transport provisions. You will define how the core engine drops into a unit that installs in days, not months, and how hundreds of those units cluster, share infrastructure, and get serviced without a crane and a week of downtime. A turbine that runs on a test stand is a science project until someone makes it deployable, repeatable, and serviceable at scale. That will be your job.\n\n\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\nExperience designing packaged machinery and mechanical systems: gensets, engines, turbines, compressors, skids, or comparable high-power equipment built to ship and run in the field. You design for manufacture and assembly from the first sketch.\n\n\n\nYou understand the tradeoffs between footprint, cost, serviceability, and time to install. You move fast from packaging concepts to released drawings without losing rigor. You have seen hardware ship, install, and run, and you know what looks clean on a screen and fails in the field. Familiarity with packaged power, gensets, turbochargers, or small gas turbines is strongly preferred, as is direct experience taking a machine from drawing to deployed unit."},{"id":"a0292f18-bb53-47cd-b97f-389fea5c0936","title":"Junior Mechanical Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-23T00:04:18.102+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/a0292f18-bb53-47cd-b97f-389fea5c0936","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/a0292f18-bb53-47cd-b97f-389fea5c0936/application","descriptionHtml":"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.
The Junior Mechanical Engineer will help turn a running turbine core into a deployable product: the package, the structural frame, the mounts, and the mechanical systems that keep the machine fed, cooled, and serviceable in the field. Working with our integration lead, you will design real parts of the enclosure, baseplate, vibration isolation, and lift and transport provisions, take them from CAD through released drawings, and then walk to the shop floor and help build what you drew.
You will own shippable pieces of the machine from day one. You will design them, tolerance them, source them, install them, and find out on our own test stand whether they work. As the design matures you will help figure out how hundreds of units cluster, share infrastructure, and get serviced without a crane and a week of downtime. A turbine that runs on a test stand is a science project until someone makes it deployable, repeatable, and serviceable at scale. You will be part of the small team whose job that is.
This is a role for an engineer early in their career who wants compressed experience: at a large company you would touch one component in your first three years. Here you will see a machine go from parts on a bench to a product in the field, and your name will be on drawings all over it.
A degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent hands-on background, and 0 to 3 years of experience. Strong CAD fundamentals (SolidWorks, NX, or similar) and a working grasp of GD&T, materials selection, and common fabrication methods: machining, sheet metal, welding.
Evidence that you build things. Internships with shipped hardware, FSAE or rocketry teams, a shop-built project you can talk about in detail, anything that shows you have made parts, found out why they didn't fit, and fixed them. You should be comfortable with hand tools and eager to assemble and test what you design.
You are rigorous about drawings and tolerances but fast, you ask questions early instead of polishing in a vacuum, and you want to learn packaged machinery from people who have shipped it. Exposure to gensets, engines, turbomachinery, or other high-power hardware is a plus, not a requirement. What we can't teach is urgency and care; bring those.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT AMERICAN TURBINES\n\nThe 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.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nThe Junior Mechanical Engineer will help turn a running turbine core into a deployable product: the package, the structural frame, the mounts, and the mechanical systems that keep the machine fed, cooled, and serviceable in the field. Working with our integration lead, you will design real parts of the enclosure, baseplate, vibration isolation, and lift and transport provisions, take them from CAD through released drawings, and then walk to the shop floor and help build what you drew.\n\n\n\nYou will own shippable pieces of the machine from day one. You will design them, tolerance them, source them, install them, and find out on our own test stand whether they work. As the design matures you will help figure out how hundreds of units cluster, share infrastructure, and get serviced without a crane and a week of downtime. A turbine that runs on a test stand is a science project until someone makes it deployable, repeatable, and serviceable at scale. You will be part of the small team whose job that is.\n\n\n\nThis is a role for an engineer early in their career who wants compressed experience: at a large company you would touch one component in your first three years. Here you will see a machine go from parts on a bench to a product in the field, and your name will be on drawings all over it.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nA degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent hands-on background, and 0 to 3 years of experience. Strong CAD fundamentals (SolidWorks, NX, or similar) and a working grasp of GD&T, materials selection, and common fabrication methods: machining, sheet metal, welding.\n\n\n\nEvidence that you build things. Internships with shipped hardware, FSAE or rocketry teams, a shop-built project you can talk about in detail, anything that shows you have made parts, found out why they didn't fit, and fixed them. You should be comfortable with hand tools and eager to assemble and test what you design.\n\n\n\nYou are rigorous about drawings and tolerances but fast, you ask questions early instead of polishing in a vacuum, and you want to learn packaged machinery from people who have shipped it. Exposure to gensets, engines, turbomachinery, or other high-power hardware is a plus, not a requirement. What we can't teach is urgency and care; bring those."},{"id":"1f281564-3fb5-4318-86ee-5faa0a67db04","title":"Lead Test Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-23T00:11:08.293+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/1f281564-3fb5-4318-86ee-5faa0a67db04","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/1f281564-3fb5-4318-86ee-5faa0a67db04/application","descriptionHtml":"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.
The Lead Test Engineer will own the ground on which every design claim gets proven or killed: the test stand. You will design, build, and run the facilities that take our first engine from cold spin to full power, and the rig program that retires combustor and controls risk in parallel. When the machine runs for the first time, you will be the one at the console.
You will own the test infrastructure end to end: stand structure and mounts, fuel gas train, starting and loading systems, cooling, fire and overspeed protection, and the instrumentation that tells us what the machine is actually doing. Thermocouples, pressure transducers, accelerometers, speed probes, emissions measurement, and the DAQ and control room that turn them into decisions. You will write the test procedures, run the hazard reviews, define abort limits, and enforce them when it's tempting not to.
Then you will run tests, fast. Turn the stand around between builds in hours, not weeks. Reduce the data the same day, put it next to the predictions, and tell the design team where reality disagrees with the model. Test rate is the company's iteration speed; you own the denominator.
Experience testing high-energy machinery: gas turbines, rocket engines, turbochargers, compressors, or comparable rotating or combustion hardware. You have built or significantly modified a test stand, not just operated one, and you have run hot hardware where a mistake destroys the article or hurts someone.
Strong instrumentation and DAQ fundamentals: sensor selection and placement, signal conditioning, calibration, sampling rates that match the physics. Comfortable with data reduction and scripting (Python or similar) so results come out of the stand as answers, not spreadsheets. Familiarity with gas fuel systems, high-pressure plumbing, and test safety practices is strongly preferred.
You are calm at the console and disciplined about procedures, but you treat turnaround time as a design variable. You know the difference between a test that produces data and a test that produces a decision, and you have the judgment to stop a test that others want to keep running.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT AMERICAN TURBINES\n\nThe 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.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nThe Lead Test Engineer will own the ground on which every design claim gets proven or killed: the test stand. You will design, build, and run the facilities that take our first engine from cold spin to full power, and the rig program that retires combustor and controls risk in parallel. When the machine runs for the first time, you will be the one at the console.\n\n\n\nYou will own the test infrastructure end to end: stand structure and mounts, fuel gas train, starting and loading systems, cooling, fire and overspeed protection, and the instrumentation that tells us what the machine is actually doing. Thermocouples, pressure transducers, accelerometers, speed probes, emissions measurement, and the DAQ and control room that turn them into decisions. You will write the test procedures, run the hazard reviews, define abort limits, and enforce them when it's tempting not to.\n\n\n\nThen you will run tests, fast. Turn the stand around between builds in hours, not weeks. Reduce the data the same day, put it next to the predictions, and tell the design team where reality disagrees with the model. Test rate is the company's iteration speed; you own the denominator.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nExperience testing high-energy machinery: gas turbines, rocket engines, turbochargers, compressors, or comparable rotating or combustion hardware. You have built or significantly modified a test stand, not just operated one, and you have run hot hardware where a mistake destroys the article or hurts someone.\n\n\n\nStrong instrumentation and DAQ fundamentals: sensor selection and placement, signal conditioning, calibration, sampling rates that match the physics. Comfortable with data reduction and scripting (Python or similar) so results come out of the stand as answers, not spreadsheets. Familiarity with gas fuel systems, high-pressure plumbing, and test safety practices is strongly preferred.\n\n\n\nYou are calm at the console and disciplined about procedures, but you treat turnaround time as a design variable. You know the difference between a test that produces data and a test that produces a decision, and you have the judgment to stop a test that others want to keep running."},{"id":"5892901b-e4bb-4991-9fa3-3ac0458bc529","title":"Turbomachinery Design & Systems Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-22T17:55:01.722+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/5892901b-e4bb-4991-9fa3-3ac0458bc529","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/5892901b-e4bb-4991-9fa3-3ac0458bc529/application","descriptionHtml":"About American Turbines
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: AI 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 Turbomachinery Design & Systems Engineer will own the mechanical design of the engine, from clean-sheet component layout through the analysis that proves the machine will survive in the field. You will design the rotors, stators, combustor, cases, and bearings, select the materials, and own how every piece fits together as one coherent power generation system.
You will define the interfaces between the mechanical, thermal, fuel, and control subsystems and make the calls that keep the whole machine integrated. You will run the structural, thermal, and rotordynamic analysis that decides when a part is ready to cut metal. And you will work directly with our suppliers and machinists to make sure what you draw can actually be built, repeatably, to drawing and spec.
This is a high-ownership role on a small team. The work you do will determine how durable, how manufacturable, and how fast we reach market.
What We're Looking For
Experience in clean-sheet mechanical design of rotating machinery: gas turbines, turbochargers, turboshaft engines, turbopumps, or similar. Strong command of structural and thermal FEA and the judgment to know which loads actually matter. Hands-on material selection for hot, high-speed, high-cycle environments. You can move fast from conceptual sizing to detailed design without losing rigor, and you design for manufacturability from the first sketch.
Strongly preferred: rotordynamics, LCF and HCF fatigue, creep life, and bearing load analysis. Direct experience with small gas turbines. A track record of taking hardware from clean sheet to running test article. Fluency working with machine shops and suppliers, and the ability to look at a part and know whether it can be made.
","descriptionPlain":"About American Turbines\n\nThe 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: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\nThe Turbomachinery Design & Systems Engineer will own the mechanical design of the engine, from clean-sheet component layout through the analysis that proves the machine will survive in the field. You will design the rotors, stators, combustor, cases, and bearings, select the materials, and own how every piece fits together as one coherent power generation system.\n\n\n\nYou will define the interfaces between the mechanical, thermal, fuel, and control subsystems and make the calls that keep the whole machine integrated. You will run the structural, thermal, and rotordynamic analysis that decides when a part is ready to cut metal. And you will work directly with our suppliers and machinists to make sure what you draw can actually be built, repeatably, to drawing and spec.\n\n\n\nThis is a high-ownership role on a small team. The work you do will determine how durable, how manufacturable, and how fast we reach market.\n\n\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\nExperience in clean-sheet mechanical design of rotating machinery: gas turbines, turbochargers, turboshaft engines, turbopumps, or similar. Strong command of structural and thermal FEA and the judgment to know which loads actually matter. Hands-on material selection for hot, high-speed, high-cycle environments. You can move fast from conceptual sizing to detailed design without losing rigor, and you design for manufacturability from the first sketch.\n\n\n\nStrongly preferred: rotordynamics, LCF and HCF fatigue, creep life, and bearing load analysis. Direct experience with small gas turbines. A track record of taking hardware from clean sheet to running test article. Fluency working with machine shops and suppliers, and the ability to look at a part and know whether it can be made."},{"id":"c26076f1-6738-4450-bdaa-87a1056922d3","title":"Head of Power Electronics","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-27T19:13:45.272+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/c26076f1-6738-4450-bdaa-87a1056922d3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/c26076f1-6738-4450-bdaa-87a1056922d3/application","descriptionHtml":"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: AI 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.
The Head of Power Electronics will own everything between the generator shaft and the customer's bus. The machine is designed from a blank sheet around a high-voltage DC architecture, that architecture is one of our core bets.
You will define the power conversion system end to end: conversion, protection, controls interfaces, and the schemes that let hundreds of units run as one plant. You will make the build-versus-buy call for every block and defend it with numbers.
Much of this system will be developed with partners and suppliers, the EV and industrial supply chain has spent a decade maturing the hardware we need. You will lead that work: select the partners, write the specs, qualify the hardware, integrate it, and stand behind it on the test stand. As in-house scope grows, you will hire and lead the power electronics team.
Deep hands-on experience in high-voltage DC power conversion. The EV industry is the natural home for this role: traction inverters, 800 V platforms, onboard chargers, DC fast charging. Design experience with wide-bandgap semiconductors, SiC and GaN, at real power levels. You've taken converters from schematic through layout, magnetics, thermal, and EMC into production, and you know what kills them in the field.
You know when a converter is a commodity to buy and when it's a differentiator to build. You're comfortable owning supplier relationships, writing source-control specs, and running qualification testing.
Nice to have: experience with electric machine design and with control systems, from converter control loops to embedded platforms.
You move fast between architecture and detail without losing rigor. You've seen hardware run and you know what simulation gets right and what it gets wrong.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT AMERICAN TURBINES\n\nThe 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: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nThe Head of Power Electronics will own everything between the generator shaft and the customer's bus. The machine is designed from a blank sheet around a high-voltage DC architecture, that architecture is one of our core bets.\n\n\n\nYou will define the power conversion system end to end: conversion, protection, controls interfaces, and the schemes that let hundreds of units run as one plant. You will make the build-versus-buy call for every block and defend it with numbers.\n\n\n\nMuch of this system will be developed with partners and suppliers, the EV and industrial supply chain has spent a decade maturing the hardware we need. You will lead that work: select the partners, write the specs, qualify the hardware, integrate it, and stand behind it on the test stand. As in-house scope grows, you will hire and lead the power electronics team.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nDeep hands-on experience in high-voltage DC power conversion. The EV industry is the natural home for this role: traction inverters, 800 V platforms, onboard chargers, DC fast charging. Design experience with wide-bandgap semiconductors, SiC and GaN, at real power levels. You've taken converters from schematic through layout, magnetics, thermal, and EMC into production, and you know what kills them in the field.\n\n\n\nYou know when a converter is a commodity to buy and when it's a differentiator to build. You're comfortable owning supplier relationships, writing source-control specs, and running qualification testing.\n\n\n\nNice to have: experience with electric machine design and with control systems, from converter control loops to embedded platforms.\n\n\n\nYou move fast between architecture and detail without losing rigor. You've seen hardware run and you know what simulation gets right and what it gets wrong."},{"id":"38f2e8a0-7c4c-445c-adf2-b7213b7c6839","title":"Power Electronics Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-27T19:17:34.099+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/38f2e8a0-7c4c-445c-adf2-b7213b7c6839","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/38f2e8a0-7c4c-445c-adf2-b7213b7c6839/application","descriptionHtml":"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: AI 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.
The Power Electronics Engineer owns everything between the generator shaft and the customer's 800 VDC bus, on our own turbine and on the machines we install at customer sites.
On the prototype, that means the power stage for American Turbines' first turbine: converting a variable-speed generator's output into 800 VDC and making every electrical component choice along the way. You will design the power stage, select and procure the components, and get it running alongside a live turbine on the test rig, working through real constraints: thermal limits, fast load transients, and a system that has to hold up over hundreds of hours of testing, not just a bench demo. You'll work closely with the Controls Engineer on the telemetry and sensing handoff between the power stage and the embedded controls.
On deployment, that means converting the output of the microturbines we bring on-site into the DC our first site requires: designing, procuring, and installing every piece of power electronics between the turbines and the DC bus bar we connect into. You'll be based in San Francisco, but plan on stretches of weeks on-site during installation and commissioning, not just the occasional trip.
Some blocks you'll design yourself, schematic through layout, magnetics, thermal, and EMC. Others come from partners and suppliers; you'll write the specs, qualify the hardware, and make it work in our system.
This is not a role where the design ships and someone else tests or installs it. You will be present for testing and on-site for commissioning, accountable for the interface working end to end, and iterating from what you see.
Experience designing and deploying power conversion at real power levels: DC-DC, inverters, rectifiers, motor drives, grid-tie, AC-to-DC. The EV industry is a natural home: traction inverters, 800 V platforms, DC fast charging. Hands-on work with wide-bandgap semiconductors, SiC and GaN. You've taken at least one converter from schematic through layout, magnetics, thermal, and EMC to working hardware, and ideally through a commissioned installation.
You're comfortable working when the electrical architecture isn't fully specified yet, and you can reason from first principles about tradeoffs like direct-drive vs. geared, or motoring-capable vs. separate starter, not just execute against a fixed spec. You understand the tradeoffs between efficiency, thermal margin, and component cost, and you can make a call under time pressure.
You're comfortable on the bench and in the field: bring-up, debug, instrumentation, and the discipline to find root cause instead of swapping parts until it works. You think about installation and serviceability as part of the design, not an afterthought.
Nice to have: exposure to electric machines, and control systems experience from converter control loops to embedded platforms.
$175,000 to $225,000 base.
Generous stock package.
Medical, vision, and dental care.
2% matching on 401(k).
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT AMERICAN TURBINES\n\nThe 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: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nThe Power Electronics Engineer owns everything between the generator shaft and the customer's 800 VDC bus, on our own turbine and on the machines we install at customer sites.\n\nOn the prototype, that means the power stage for American Turbines' first turbine: converting a variable-speed generator's output into 800 VDC and making every electrical component choice along the way. You will design the power stage, select and procure the components, and get it running alongside a live turbine on the test rig, working through real constraints: thermal limits, fast load transients, and a system that has to hold up over hundreds of hours of testing, not just a bench demo. You'll work closely with the Controls Engineer on the telemetry and sensing handoff between the power stage and the embedded controls.\n\nOn deployment, that means converting the output of the microturbines we bring on-site into the DC our first site requires: designing, procuring, and installing every piece of power electronics between the turbines and the DC bus bar we connect into. You'll be based in San Francisco, but plan on stretches of weeks on-site during installation and commissioning, not just the occasional trip.\n\nSome blocks you'll design yourself, schematic through layout, magnetics, thermal, and EMC. Others come from partners and suppliers; you'll write the specs, qualify the hardware, and make it work in our system.\n\nThis is not a role where the design ships and someone else tests or installs it. You will be present for testing and on-site for commissioning, accountable for the interface working end to end, and iterating from what you see.\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nExperience designing and deploying power conversion at real power levels: DC-DC, inverters, rectifiers, motor drives, grid-tie, AC-to-DC. The EV industry is a natural home: traction inverters, 800 V platforms, DC fast charging. Hands-on work with wide-bandgap semiconductors, SiC and GaN. You've taken at least one converter from schematic through layout, magnetics, thermal, and EMC to working hardware, and ideally through a commissioned installation.\n\nYou're comfortable working when the electrical architecture isn't fully specified yet, and you can reason from first principles about tradeoffs like direct-drive vs. geared, or motoring-capable vs. separate starter, not just execute against a fixed spec. You understand the tradeoffs between efficiency, thermal margin, and component cost, and you can make a call under time pressure.\n\nYou're comfortable on the bench and in the field: bring-up, debug, instrumentation, and the discipline to find root cause instead of swapping parts until it works. You think about installation and serviceability as part of the design, not an afterthought.\n\nNice to have: exposure to electric machines, and control systems experience from converter control loops to embedded platforms.\n\n\nCOMPENSATION\n\n$175,000 to $225,000 base.\n\nGenerous stock package.\n\nMedical, vision, and dental care.\n\n2% matching on 401(k)."},{"id":"c789eac8-a3f0-4ef5-9b55-359a4f383b58","title":"Test Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-15T18:30:54.865+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/c789eac8-a3f0-4ef5-9b55-359a4f383b58","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/c789eac8-a3f0-4ef5-9b55-359a4f383b58/application","descriptionHtml":"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.
The Test Engineer will build and run the stand that takes our first engine from cold spin to full power. You'll work with the Lead Test Engineer on everything the stand needs: structure, plumbing, fuel gas train, cooling, protection systems, and the instrumentation that tells us what the machine is actually doing.
You'll own real scope from day one: sensor selection and installation, thermocouples, pressure transducers, accelerometers, DAQ configuration and calibration, and the scripts that turn raw channels into plots the design team acts on the same day. You'll write procedures, run pre-test checklists, sit console during hot tests, and turn the stand around between builds.
Experience testing hardware : engines, rocket engines, turbochargers, compressors, high-pressure systems, or comparable. You've instrumented and run test articles, built fixtures and plumbing with your own hands, and you know most test problems are measurement problems.
Solid instrumentation and DAQ fundamentals: signal conditioning, calibration, sampling rates that match the physics. Scripting for data reduction, Python or similar. Familiarity with gas fuel systems and high-pressure plumbing is a plus, so is time on a student rocketry, FSAE, or engine test team if that's where your hours are.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT AMERICAN TURBINES\n\nThe 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.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nThe Test Engineer will build and run the stand that takes our first engine from cold spin to full power. You'll work with the Lead Test Engineer on everything the stand needs: structure, plumbing, fuel gas train, cooling, protection systems, and the instrumentation that tells us what the machine is actually doing.\n\n\n\nYou'll own real scope from day one: sensor selection and installation, thermocouples, pressure transducers, accelerometers, DAQ configuration and calibration, and the scripts that turn raw channels into plots the design team acts on the same day. You'll write procedures, run pre-test checklists, sit console during hot tests, and turn the stand around between builds.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nExperience testing hardware : engines, rocket engines, turbochargers, compressors, high-pressure systems, or comparable. You've instrumented and run test articles, built fixtures and plumbing with your own hands, and you know most test problems are measurement problems.\n\n\n\nSolid instrumentation and DAQ fundamentals: signal conditioning, calibration, sampling rates that match the physics. Scripting for data reduction, Python or similar. Familiarity with gas fuel systems and high-pressure plumbing is a plus, so is time on a student rocketry, FSAE, or engine test team if that's where your hours are."},{"id":"05ff2641-aaa4-48a1-b1d5-65097a5d2230","title":"Head of Project Development","department":"Deployment","team":"Deployment","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-27T23:59:00.037+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/05ff2641-aaa4-48a1-b1d5-65097a5d2230","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/05ff2641-aaa4-48a1-b1d5-65097a5d2230/application","descriptionHtml":"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.
The Head of Project Development will put our machines on the ground. Sites, gas, permits, interconnect: everything between a signed order and a machine running at a customer site is yours.
You will identify and qualify sites, negotiate gas supply, run the permitting process with state and local agencies, and set deployment timelines with customers. You will define the standard development process so each site is faster than the last.
Experience developing power projects: gas generation, gensets, solar and storage, or data center sites. You have taken at least one project from site acquisition through permitting to commissioning.
Working knowledge of air permitting for gas-fired equipment at the state and local level. Texas experience strongly preferred. Direct experience negotiating with landowners, gas suppliers, utilities, and permitting authorities.
You manage schedule aggressively and run workstreams in parallel.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT AMERICAN TURBINES\n\nThe 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.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nThe Head of Project Development will put our machines on the ground. Sites, gas, permits, interconnect: everything between a signed order and a machine running at a customer site is yours.\n\n\n\nYou will identify and qualify sites, negotiate gas supply, run the permitting process with state and local agencies, and set deployment timelines with customers. You will define the standard development process so each site is faster than the last.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nExperience developing power projects: gas generation, gensets, solar and storage, or data center sites. You have taken at least one project from site acquisition through permitting to commissioning.\n\n\n\nWorking knowledge of air permitting for gas-fired equipment at the state and local level. Texas experience strongly preferred. Direct experience negotiating with landowners, gas suppliers, utilities, and permitting authorities.\n\n\n\nYou manage schedule aggressively and run workstreams in parallel."},{"id":"986450fd-4c81-4cb9-8908-0b0ee525d643","title":"Supply Chain Manager","department":"Logistics & Operations","team":"Logistics & Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-24T19:11:46.796+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/986450fd-4c81-4cb9-8908-0b0ee525d643","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/986450fd-4c81-4cb9-8908-0b0ee525d643/application","descriptionHtml":"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: AI 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.
The Supply Chain Manager helps our team source materials and get parts in shop asap. Today that means the parts for our first machines, working with machine shops and exploring the many options we can choose. Lead times on these parts set our schedule just as much as engineering does. Your job is to make the supply chain move faster than the design cycle.
Near term, you'll find and qualify suppliers, negotiate lead times and pricing, and manage purchasing and delivery against the build schedule. You'll sit with the engineers and join the early team here at American Turbines.
By 2027 the job changes: turbines in production on a rolling assembly. You will build the procurement system for rate manufacturing: supplier quality, incoming inspection, inventory, logistics, and the supplier base to support thousands of units per year. You'll hire the team that runs it.
You've sourced precision hardware: aerospace, turbomachinery, EV, or adjacent. You know how machine shops, foundries, and forge houses actually work, you can read a drawing and tell a supplier exactly why their part is late. You've negotiated with suppliers and have won almost impossible deals.
You've taken a product from prototype purchasing into rate production and know what breaks in between. You know when the expensive fast option is the cheap one.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT AMERICAN TURBINES\n\nThe 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: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.\n\n\n\nAmerican 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.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nThe Supply Chain Manager helps our team source materials and get parts in shop asap. Today that means the parts for our first machines, working with machine shops and exploring the many options we can choose. Lead times on these parts set our schedule just as much as engineering does. Your job is to make the supply chain move faster than the design cycle.\n\n\n\nNear term, you'll find and qualify suppliers, negotiate lead times and pricing, and manage purchasing and delivery against the build schedule. You'll sit with the engineers and join the early team here at American Turbines.\n\n\n\nBy 2027 the job changes: turbines in production on a rolling assembly. You will build the procurement system for rate manufacturing: supplier quality, incoming inspection, inventory, logistics, and the supplier base to support thousands of units per year. You'll hire the team that runs it.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\nYou've sourced precision hardware: aerospace, turbomachinery, EV, or adjacent. You know how machine shops, foundries, and forge houses actually work, you can read a drawing and tell a supplier exactly why their part is late. You've negotiated with suppliers and have won almost impossible deals.\n\n\n\nYou've taken a product from prototype purchasing into rate production and know what breaks in between. You know when the expensive fast option is the cheap one."},{"id":"42956372-9327-4672-8198-100245dcf633","title":"Controls & Embedded Systems Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-11T20:55:30.804+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/42956372-9327-4672-8198-100245dcf633","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/42956372-9327-4672-8198-100245dcf633/application","descriptionHtml":"About American Turbines
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: AI 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 Controls & Embedded Systems Engineer owns getting turbines to run: our own first turbine on the test rig, and the microturbines we install at our first customer site.
On the prototype, that means the embedded controls and firmware that take American Turbines' first turbine from start to steady-state operation, keep it running through every test, and shut it down safely when something goes wrong. This includes owning the P&ID, sensor selection, and valve and plumbing choices, since those decisions are inseparable from what you're controlling, but the job is making the engine work. You will work directly with the test team to get the right sensors on the rig and define the control logic and firmware the engine actually runs on. As testing reveals what the engine needs versus what we assumed, you're the one closing that loop.
On deployment, that means running the microturbines we bring on-site, first as a single unit and then as a fleet, on their existing controls. You get these machines started, keep them running, and relay every bit of turbine data back to HQ. You'll be based in San Francisco, but plan on stretches of weeks on-site during installation and commissioning, troubleshooting control issues in the field, in real time, on hardware we're still getting to know. What you learn there feeds back into how we do controls on our own machine.
This is not a role where controls comes in after the hardware is built, and it's not a desk job. You will be embedded in the build from early on, shaping component choices around what's controllable and observable, and you'll be at the site when the work calls for it.
What We're Looking For
Experience with embedded controls and firmware for rotating machinery, engines, or similarly real-time, safety-critical electromechanical systems. You've taken a system from a blank sheet to actually running, not just simulated or spec'd out. You also get productive fast on unfamiliar hardware, reading schematics and control logic you didn't write and finding your way around them under pressure.
You think in failure modes and control loops as much as you think in code. You know how much of this job is judgment calls under uncertainty rather than clean spec work, and you'd rather be watching the engine run than writing the document that describes it. You're comfortable being the person who has to figure out why something isn't working the way the manual says it should, on a system you didn't design.
Compensation
$175,000 to $225,000 base.
Generous stock package.
Medical, vision, and dental care.
2% matching on 401(k).
","descriptionPlain":"About American Turbines\n\nThe 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: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.\n\nAmerican 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.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nThe Controls & Embedded Systems Engineer owns getting turbines to run: our own first turbine on the test rig, and the microturbines we install at our first customer site.\n\nOn the prototype, that means the embedded controls and firmware that take American Turbines' first turbine from start to steady-state operation, keep it running through every test, and shut it down safely when something goes wrong. This includes owning the P&ID, sensor selection, and valve and plumbing choices, since those decisions are inseparable from what you're controlling, but the job is making the engine work. You will work directly with the test team to get the right sensors on the rig and define the control logic and firmware the engine actually runs on. As testing reveals what the engine needs versus what we assumed, you're the one closing that loop.\n\nOn deployment, that means running the microturbines we bring on-site, first as a single unit and then as a fleet, on their existing controls. You get these machines started, keep them running, and relay every bit of turbine data back to HQ. You'll be based in San Francisco, but plan on stretches of weeks on-site during installation and commissioning, troubleshooting control issues in the field, in real time, on hardware we're still getting to know. What you learn there feeds back into how we do controls on our own machine.\n\nThis is not a role where controls comes in after the hardware is built, and it's not a desk job. You will be embedded in the build from early on, shaping component choices around what's controllable and observable, and you'll be at the site when the work calls for it.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\nExperience with embedded controls and firmware for rotating machinery, engines, or similarly real-time, safety-critical electromechanical systems. You've taken a system from a blank sheet to actually running, not just simulated or spec'd out. You also get productive fast on unfamiliar hardware, reading schematics and control logic you didn't write and finding your way around them under pressure.\n\nYou think in failure modes and control loops as much as you think in code. You know how much of this job is judgment calls under uncertainty rather than clean spec work, and you'd rather be watching the engine run than writing the document that describes it. You're comfortable being the person who has to figure out why something isn't working the way the manual says it should, on a system you didn't design.\n\nCompensation\n\n$175,000 to $225,000 base.\n\nGenerous stock package.\n\nMedical, vision, and dental care.\n\n2% matching on 401(k)."},{"id":"7b82d8dc-11c8-4372-b3e1-9df133b0efd5","title":"Site Engineer - Field Deployment","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-11T20:57:55.253+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/7b82d8dc-11c8-4372-b3e1-9df133b0efd5","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/7b82d8dc-11c8-4372-b3e1-9df133b0efd5/application","descriptionHtml":"About American Turbines
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: AI 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 Site Engineer for our installation program will own how our first microturbine installation fits together at a site level: where the turbines are located, whether we need concrete pads poured, where the transformers go, and how the turbines line up with the electrical and pipeline connections they need.
You'll be based in San Francisco, but plan on stretches of weeks on-site during installation, not just the occasional trip. You will work the full chain from site plan to working installation, translating between what the turbines need, what the site has, and what has to get built to connect the two.
This is not a role where the plan gets handed to you finished. You will be defining that plan yourself and then making sure it holds up once equipment starts showing up on-site.
What We're Looking For
Experience with systems integration on complex industrial or power generation equipment, whatever the domain. Site planning, balance-of-plant, or similar work where you had to coordinate mechanical, electrical, and civil scope at once and make it all fit together in the real world, not just on paper.
You default to walking the site rather than only working from drawings. You're comfortable being the person who has to catch the conflict between two other people's plans before it becomes a problem in the field.
Compensation
$150,000 to $200,000 base.
Generous stock package.
Medical, vision, and dental care.
2% matching on 401(k).
","descriptionPlain":"About American Turbines\n\nThe 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: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.\n\nAmerican 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.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nThe Site Engineer for our installation program will own how our first microturbine installation fits together at a site level: where the turbines are located, whether we need concrete pads poured, where the transformers go, and how the turbines line up with the electrical and pipeline connections they need.\n\nYou'll be based in San Francisco, but plan on stretches of weeks on-site during installation, not just the occasional trip. You will work the full chain from site plan to working installation, translating between what the turbines need, what the site has, and what has to get built to connect the two.\n\nThis is not a role where the plan gets handed to you finished. You will be defining that plan yourself and then making sure it holds up once equipment starts showing up on-site.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\nExperience with systems integration on complex industrial or power generation equipment, whatever the domain. Site planning, balance-of-plant, or similar work where you had to coordinate mechanical, electrical, and civil scope at once and make it all fit together in the real world, not just on paper.\n\nYou default to walking the site rather than only working from drawings. You're comfortable being the person who has to catch the conflict between two other people's plans before it becomes a problem in the field.\n\nCompensation\n\n$150,000 to $200,000 base.\n\nGenerous stock package.\n\nMedical, vision, and dental care.\n\n2% matching on 401(k)."},{"id":"70d7528c-ed32-4a64-8bd9-66649d65d1bc","title":"Lead Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-11T20:53:42.653+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/70d7528c-ed32-4a64-8bd9-66649d65d1bc","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/american-turbines/70d7528c-ed32-4a64-8bd9-66649d65d1bc/application","descriptionHtml":"About American Turbines
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: AI 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 Lead Engineer will own the timeline for American Turbines' first turbine, from where it stands today through a fully built and tested demonstrator. You will turn a stack of engineering workstreams, combustion, aerodynamics, mechanical, controls, power electronics, into a single execution plan, and you will be the one accountable for whether that plan holds.
You will set the schedule, break it into tasks, and delegate those tasks to the engineers who own them. You will run daily and weekly engineering meetings, track what's actually getting done against what was promised, and step in wherever the build needs another set of hands: fixturing a part, running a test, chasing a vendor. Beyond keeping the schedule honest, you'll pick up engineering work directly when the team needs it, whether that's helping debug a test rig issue, sanity-checking a design call, or just taking a task yourself when someone's stuck.
This is not a role where you set a plan on a whiteboard and let the team execute it on their own. You will be in the shop as often as you're in a planning meeting, and the team's respect for your leadership will come from both.
What We're Looking For
A track record of taking hardware from 0 to 1 and shipping it, ideally at a small, fast-moving hardware team. You don't need direct turbomachinery experience. What you need is the judgment to build a realistic timeline, the discipline to hold a team to it, and the willingness to get your hands dirty when the schedule calls for it.
You've led engineers more senior or more specialized than you before, and you know how to earn their trust rather than assume it. You default to build-and-test over simulation, and you know the difference between a schedule slip that's normal and one that's a real problem.
You're effective at quick check-ins, not just deep dives. You won't have time to go deep on every workstream, so you need to know when a two-minute conversation is enough to unblock someone and when a problem actually needs you to sit down and work it with them.
Compensation
$200,000 to $250,000 base.
Generous stock package.
Medical, vision, and dental care.
2% matching on 401(k).
","descriptionPlain":"About American Turbines\n\nThe 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: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.\n\nAmerican 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.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nThe Lead Engineer will own the timeline for American Turbines' first turbine, from where it stands today through a fully built and tested demonstrator. You will turn a stack of engineering workstreams, combustion, aerodynamics, mechanical, controls, power electronics, into a single execution plan, and you will be the one accountable for whether that plan holds.\n\nYou will set the schedule, break it into tasks, and delegate those tasks to the engineers who own them. You will run daily and weekly engineering meetings, track what's actually getting done against what was promised, and step in wherever the build needs another set of hands: fixturing a part, running a test, chasing a vendor. Beyond keeping the schedule honest, you'll pick up engineering work directly when the team needs it, whether that's helping debug a test rig issue, sanity-checking a design call, or just taking a task yourself when someone's stuck.\n\nThis is not a role where you set a plan on a whiteboard and let the team execute it on their own. You will be in the shop as often as you're in a planning meeting, and the team's respect for your leadership will come from both.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\nA track record of taking hardware from 0 to 1 and shipping it, ideally at a small, fast-moving hardware team. You don't need direct turbomachinery experience. What you need is the judgment to build a realistic timeline, the discipline to hold a team to it, and the willingness to get your hands dirty when the schedule calls for it.\n\nYou've led engineers more senior or more specialized than you before, and you know how to earn their trust rather than assume it. You default to build-and-test over simulation, and you know the difference between a schedule slip that's normal and one that's a real problem.\n\nYou're effective at quick check-ins, not just deep dives. You won't have time to go deep on every workstream, so you need to know when a two-minute conversation is enough to unblock someone and when a problem actually needs you to sit down and work it with them.\n\nCompensation\n\n$200,000 to $250,000 base.\n\nGenerous stock package.\n\nMedical, vision, and dental care.\n\n2% matching on 401(k)."}],"apiVersion":"1"}