Mechanical Engineer

American Turbines • San Francisco, CA

2d • Remote

About The Position

The Mechanical Engineer will own everything that turns a running turbine core into a deployable product: the package, the structural frame, the mounts, and the mechanical systems that keep the machine fed, cooled, and serviceable in the field. You own the enclosure, the baseplate, the vibration isolation, and the lift and transport provisions. You will define how the core engine drops into a unit that installs in days, not months, and how hundreds of those units cluster, share infrastructure, and get serviced without a crane and a week of downtime. A turbine that runs on a test stand is a science project until someone makes it deployable, repeatable, and serviceable at scale. That will be your job.

Requirements

• Experience designing packaged machinery and mechanical systems (e.g., gensets, engines, turbines, compressors, skids, or comparable high-power equipment).
• Design for manufacture and assembly from the initial concept.
• Understanding of tradeoffs between footprint, cost, serviceability, and installation time.
• Ability to move quickly from packaging concepts to released drawings while maintaining rigor.
• Experience with hardware that has shipped, installed, and run in the field.
• Knowledge of what appears functional on a screen but fails in real-world applications.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with packaged power, gensets, turbochargers, or small gas turbines.
• Direct experience taking a machine from drawing to deployed unit.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of the turbine package, structural frame, and mounts.
• Develop mechanical systems for feeding, cooling, and servicing the turbine in the field.
• Define the enclosure, baseplate, vibration isolation, and lift/transport provisions.
• Ensure the core engine can be integrated into a unit that installs quickly.
• Design for clustering of multiple units and shared infrastructure.
• Develop serviceability plans for units without requiring heavy equipment.
• Translate a test-stand turbine into a deployable, repeatable, and serviceable product at scale.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed