Senior Test Engineer - Turbine Test Facility & Campaigns

• Specify and stand up the company’s first dedicated test facility, covering floor layout, utilities, safety systems, and the infrastructure needed for high-pressure, high-temperature hardware
• Design, build, and maintain test stands, rigs, and fixtures for development units and production hardware
• Author test plans, operating procedures, and methods that make every campaign safe and repeatable
• Select instrumentation and build out the data acquisition, recording, and storage systems behind each test
• Get hands-on during assembly, wiring, and commissioning of the first machine and its supporting stands
• Process and analyze test results, then turn them into clear findings for the design, controls, and systems teams
• Run test logistics so instrumentation, fixtures, spares, and consumables are ready ahead of each campaign
• Work across mechanical, fluids, electrical, and software disciplines to troubleshoot hardware and close out issues quickly

• B.S. or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline
• Track record running hardware test campaigns, including commissioning rotating machinery or high-pressure, high-temperature systems
• Strong hands-on skills on both the mechanical and electrical side of a test setup
• Solid grounding in sensors, instrumentation, and data acquisition
• Comfort working across mechanical, fluid, electrical, and software interfaces to find root causes
• Clear communicator and natural leader who enjoys picking up new skills and teaching them to others

Preferred Experience

• Built a test cell, lab, or full test facility starting from an empty space
• Test background in rotating machinery, combustion, natural gas, cryogenic, or high-pressure and high-temperature systems
• Hazard analysis and test safety work for pressurized or high-energy systems
• Python, LabVIEW, cRIO, or similar DAQ and test software, plus experience organizing large test datasets
• Comfortable reading and building from P&IDs
• Combustion rig or burner management system experience
• Instrumenting rotating machinery, such as vibration, speed, and bearing temperature measurement
• Previous early-stage startup experience

• Define how the company tests hardware, with no legacy processes to work around
• Work side by side with technical founders and a small, senior engineering team
• Real hardware on the floor and a megawatt-class machine headed to test
• Broad ownership and fast decisions at an early-stage company
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Stocked kitchen with coffee, snacks, and lunch provided

Compensation Details

$160,000 - $210,000 + equity

We are a venture-backed, seed-stage energy hardware company in the South Bay building compact turbine power systems that convert heat into dispatchable electricity, with on-site power for data centers among our first markets. Our founders come from propulsion, defense, and industrial turbine programs and bring more than five decades of combined design, analysis, and test experience. A megawatt-class unit is in development to run on natural gas first, with a near-term path to pairing with nuclear heat sources.