Location: Los Angeles, CA Team: Engineering Reports to: Chief Engineer
The US needs 1.5 terawatts of new power by 2035. AI has scaled beyond our ability to build power, and the existing power supply chain is the bottleneck. You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030: order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch past 2030. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. The future demands a new kind of hardware company, building a new kind of turbine. That's Stone.
We are America's Turbine Company, designing, fabricating, and deploying turbines for a $200B+ market that's tripling by the early 2030s. We are building our own factories. We are delivering our own natural gas, steam, and advanced turbines. And we are doing it with an AI stack built specifically for hardware.
Natural gas turbines are the first leaf on a multi-decade tech tree. The same physics kernel, the same factory, and the same team will deliver natural gas turbines, nuclear turbines, geothermal turbines, and heat recovery systems. Nat gas is how we get going. Nuclear (on and off planet) is how we become a generational company.
The Build Engineer will focus on turning designs into physical hardware that is buildable and functional as both prototypes and production. Above all else, it has to work. The build engineer will own the implementation of subsystems such as the rotating assembly, static hardware and auxiliary systems. The Build Engineer will have the unique opportunity to build the first of something, such that hundreds to millions of that thing will work in serial production.
Key responsibilities include design for manufacturability (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), work instructions, inspection planning, and fabrication plans. The build engineer could be a designer who wants to spend more time on the factory floor, or a machinist who wants to find the best way to build a new technology.
You should be an expert in at least 1 of the following: