Power Electronics Engineer - Prototype Development

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 will own the power electronics for American Turbines' first turbine: converting the generator's output into the 800VDC we deliver to load, and every electrical component choice along the way. Shaft speed on a machine like this is likely to vary with load, so expect to be designing for a moving target rather than a fixed input.