Location: Los Angeles, CA (On-Site) Team: GTM / Engineering Reports to: TBD
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.
This is the technical tip of the spear on Stone’s GTM team. As a Plant Engineer, you are the person customers and EPCs talk to when the conversation gets more technical than the sales team can handle: interconnection, balance of plant, site layout, controls philosophy, commissioning sequence. You translate a customer’s site, fuel, and offtake reality into requirements our turbine REs can build against, and you translate Stone’s hardware back into a plant that an EPC can actually pour concrete for.
You are not a salesperson with a deck. You have stood in a combined cycle plant, you have watched a unit come up on a cold morning, and you know where the bodies are buried between the gas turbine, the HRSG, the steam turbine, the switchgear, and the grid. You own the plant-level picture: how Stone’s 50 MW system drops into a real site and runs. This role carries the same profound ownership as every engineering seat at Stone. You own the first deployment from contract signature through commercial operation.