Location: Los Angeles, CA (On-Site) Team: Engineering, Rotating Systems 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.
Stone is post-stealth, pre-Series A, and moving fast. The founding engineering team is in place and active test programs are underway. This is a hardware-first company that uses AI to compress the engineering loop, and build a lasting lead through cornered data from manufacturing to test and reliability.
Stone has a Head of Static Engineering in place. This role is the complement: the technical owner of all rotating systems including compressor, turbine stages, rotordynamics, and combustion systems.
You will partner directly with the CEO and the broader engineering team to drive rotating machinery from architecture through test and delivery. This is not a coordination role. It is a hands-on technical leadership seat with end-to-end ownership of the rotating heart of the turbine. We have experts in these fields on staff. This role is the leader to pull together the whole product.
The first product is a 50 MW-class combined-cycle turbine built around a fundamentally different design philosophy: designed for manufacturability and speed, not hyper-optimized efficiency. Targeting 20 to 30% BOM cost reduction vs. incumbents, with novel architectures across compressor and rotor.
This role is equal parts rotating machinery architect, hands-on hardware builder, test campaign lead, and engineering team anchor.
Rotating Machinery Ownership