Test Engineer

Golden Gate Recruiting; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

American Turbines is seeking a Test Engineer to join the SF-based team and own the stand used to bring engines from cold spin to full power. You will work closely with the Lead Test Engineer on equipment, plumbing, fuel gas train, cooling, protection systems, and key instrumentation.

The role emphasizes hands-on sensor installation, DAQ configuration, and scripting for data reduction. On-site in San Francisco, relocation support may apply.

Qualifications

• Experience testing hardware: engines, rocket engines, turbochargers, or high-pressure systems.
• Instruments installation and data acquisition experience; able to build fixtures and plumbing.
• Strong scripting for data analysis in Python or similar; familiarity with DAQ basics.

Responsabilités

• Build and run the test stand to take the first engine from cold spin to full power.
• Collaborate with the Lead Test Engineer on stand infrastructure: structure, plumbing, fuel gas train, cooling, protection, instrumentation.
• Select and install sensors (thermocouples, pressure transducers, accelerometers); configure DAQ and calibrate.
• Develop procedures, run pre-test checklists, monitor hot tests, and cycle the stand between builds.

Description du poste

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: 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 Test Engineer will build and run the stand that takes our first engine from cold spin to full power. You'll work with the Lead Test Engineer on everything the stand needs: structure, plumbing, fuel gas train, cooling, protection systems, and the instrumentation that tells us what the machine is actually doing.

You'll own real scope from day one: sensor selection and installation, thermocouples, pressure transducers, accelerometers, DAQ configuration and calibration, and the scripts that turn raw channels into plots the design team acts on the same day. You'll write procedures, run pre-test checklists, sit console during hot tests, and turn the stand around between builds.

What We're Looking For

Experience testing hardware: engines, rocket engines, turbochargers, compressors, high-pressure systems, or comparable. You've instrumented and run test articles, built fixtures and plumbing with your own hands, and you know most test problems are measurement problems.

Solid instrumentation and DAQ fundamentals: signal conditioning, calibration, sampling rates that match the physics. Scripting for data reduction, Python or similar. Familiarity with gas fuel systems and high-pressure plumbing is a plus, so is time on a student rocketry, FSAE, or engine test team if that's where your hours are.

Compensation

• $110K to $150K base salary, plus equity.

Location and work authorization

• This role is fully on-site in San Francisco (Dogpatch). 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.