Location: Los Angeles, CA Team: Finance & Operations Reports to: CEO
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 nuclear turbines, geothermal turbines, heat recovery systems, and propulsion engines. Nat gas is how we get going. Nuclear (on and off planet) is how we become a generational company.
This is a founding team role: one of the first employees who will define the culture, pace, and competency bar at Stone. Every founding employee has shipped hardware at scale, and we keep doing it for the love of the game. The data is only half the moat; the ability to turn our designs into atoms rapidly closes the loop. In power generation, we are both Nvidia and TSMC.
This is the first finance hire at Stone. You will build the function from zero: accounting, FP&A, treasury, audit, legal, and the team behind all of it. You will sit at the table with the CEO on every external capital decision, every major commercial deal, and every hire. Stone is a hardware company that will raise a lot of money, spend a lot of money, and need to account for every dollar with the same discipline we hold our hardware to. The finance function has to keep up with a company that’s going from preseed to giga-factory scale in years, not decades.
This role is for someone who has done it before at a hardware company that actually shipped. You’ve raised and managed debt. You know what it costs to stand up a factory, what an audit looks like when inventory is real and moving, and how to raise from sophisticated creditors. You’re a strategic thinker and comfortable with high administrative loads.