Location: Los Angeles, CA Team: Engineering, Blading 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.
This role as a Responsible Engineer (RE) focuses on the development of hot section blading for highly manufacturable turbines for power generation. The position involves the aerodynamic, mechanical, and thermal design of turbine blades and vanes operating in the most punishing environment inside the machine. This is a unique opportunity to rethink how hot section hardware gets designed and built at scale. We are building the Toyota Hilux of turbines, not the Ferrari F80.
Key responsibilities include sizing and shaping blade and vane rows, performing detailed aerodynamic, structural, and thermal design, executing cooling design, conducting CFD and FEA, and coordinating the casting, coating, machining, inspection, testing, and assembly of hot section parts. The RE will be the primary owner of the hot section blading on Stone’s power generation hardware, tasked with developing the concept of operations from acceptance testing through deployment performance.