Site Engineer - Field Deployment

Golden Gate Recruiting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, and Dental

Stock package

401(k) with 2% match

Job summary

Golden Gate Recruiting is hiring for American Turbines in San Francisco. The Site Engineer will own the on-site integration of the first microturbine installation, coordinating mechanical, electrical, and civil aspects to ensure proper fit and connections.

You will be based in San Francisco with weeks on-site during installation, defining the plan and ensuring it holds up as equipment arrives. Relocation may be needed; visa sponsorship is not offered.

Qualifications

• Experience with systems integration on complex industrial or power generation equipment.
• Site planning, balance-of-plant, or similar work coordinating multiple disciplines.
• Strong on-site problem solving and conflict resolution.

Responsibilities

• Own how the first microturbine installation fits together at the site level, including layout and connections.
• Coordinate mechanical, electrical, and civil scope to align with site realities.
• Translate turbine requirements into built infrastructure and address field conflicts before they arise.
• Spend extended weeks on-site during installation and ensure plans hold up when equipment arrives.

Skills

Systems integration

Site planning

Balance-of-plant

Mechanical coordination

Electrical coordination

Job description

Golden Gate Recruiting is thrilled to be hiring for American Turbines, a seed-stage hard tech company in San Francisco backed by the investors behind SpaceX, Boom Supersonic, and Hadrian!

About American Turbines

The power grid was built for a world that no longer exists. Centralized generation, hundred-mile transmission lines, decade-long permitting cycles. Meanwhile, demand is exploding: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.

American Turbines is designing small modular gas turbines, purpose-built for distributed power generation. Machines designed from a blank sheet to be manufactured at scale, clustered in arrays. Hundreds of units operating in parallel, dynamically matching load like a compute cluster matches demand. We are a seed-stage company backed by the investors behind SpaceX, Boom Supersonic, and Hadrian.

About the Role

The Site Engineer for our installation program will own how our first microturbine installation fits together at a site level: where the turbines are located, whether we need concrete pads poured, where the transformers go, and how the turbines line up with the electrical and pipeline connections they need.

You’ll be based in San Francisco, but plan on stretches of weeks on-site during installation, not just the occasional trip. You will work the full chain from site plan to working installation, translating between what the turbines need, what the site has, and what has to get built to connect the two.

This is not a role where the plan gets handed to you finished. You will be defining that plan yourself and then making sure it holds up once equipment starts showing up on-site.

What We’re Looking For

Experience with systems integration on complex industrial or power generation equipment, whatever the domain. Site planning, balance-of-plant, or similar work where you had to coordinate mechanical, electrical, and civil scope at once and make it all fit together in the real world, not just on paper.

You default to walking the site rather than only working from drawings. You’re comfortable being the person who has to catch the conflict between two other people’s plans before it becomes a problem in the field.

Compensation and benefits

• $150,000 to $200,000 base.
• Generous stock package.
• Medical, vision, and dental care.
• 2% matching on 401(k).

Location and work authorization

• This role is based on-site in San Francisco (Dogpatch), with stretches of weeks on-site during installation. You must live in the SF Bay Area or be open to relocating to San Francisco.
• Visa sponsorship and visa transfers are not offered for this role. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.