Site Engineer - Field Deployment

American Turbines•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

American Turbines is hiring a Site Engineer for its installation program. The role owns how the company’s first microturbine installation fits together at the site level, including turbine locations, concrete pads, transformer placement, and alignment with electrical and pipeline connections. The position works across the full process from site plan through working installation, translating equipment requirements and site conditions into the work needed to connect them. The engineer defines the plan and ensures it holds up as equipment arrives on-site. The role is based in San Francisco and requires stretches of weeks on-site during installation, rather than only occasional travel. American Turbines is a seed-stage company developing small modular gas turbines for distributed power generation.

Requirements

Experience with systems integration on complex industrial or power generation equipment.
Experience in site planning, balance-of-plant, or similar work coordinating mechanical, electrical, and civil scope.
Ability to make plans fit real-world site conditions, not just drawings.
Comfort walking the site and identifying conflicts between plans before they become field problems.

Responsibilities

Plan the site-level layout for the microturbine installation, including turbine locations, concrete pads, and transformer placement.
Coordinate turbine placement with required electrical and pipeline connections.
Translate turbine requirements and site conditions into the work needed to connect them.
Define the installation plan and ensure it works as equipment arrives on-site.
Coordinate mechanical, electrical, and civil scope and identify conflicts between plans before they become field problems.
Work on-site for stretches of weeks during installation.