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 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 engineers 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.
You’re the first full time AI hire. You’re not really an AI engineer, you’re a hardware engineer who can teach yourself to be dangerous in coding and software dev.
This role builds the agentic workflows and tools that make every Responsible Engineer at Stone 100x more productive. You are not expected to know AI training methods. You need to be an experienced hardware engineer, who is very AI curious and wants to build. We have access to some of the best AI researchers in the nation, and you will manage those relationships and learn alongside them.
This role will have no direct responsibility for delivering hardware (although everyone will turn a wrench). However, you will have milestones directly tied to our investor and customer expectations. Stone doesn’t roll without you being the best you can be. You are building the machine that designs the machine.