Site Engineer - Field Deployment
Company websiteamericanturbines.com (American Turbines, opens in new tab)
Base salary $150K to $200K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
About this job
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
$150,000 to $200,000 base.
Generous stock package.
Medical, vision, and dental care.
2% matching on 401(k).
Source: American Turbines on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
This listingSite Engineer - Field Deployment$150K to $200K
Head of Power Electronics$150K to $200K
Turbomachinery Aerodynamics Engineer$140K to $185K
Head of Project Development$170K to $200K
Lead Test Engineer$170K to $200K
Power Electronics Engineer$130K to $180K
Controls & Embedded Systems Engineer$175K to $225K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Site Engineer - Field Deployment (this listing) | $150K - $200K |
| Head of Power Electronics | $150K - $200K |
| Turbomachinery Aerodynamics Engineer | $140K - $185K |
| Head of Project Development | $170K - $200K |
| Lead Test Engineer | $170K - $200K |
| Power Electronics Engineer | $130K - $180K |
| Controls & Embedded Systems Engineer | $175K - $225K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-09-11
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco
$150,000 to $200,000 base.
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