mechanical field engineer
Ever wondered what it would be like to rebuild modern civilization from scratch?
As a mechanical field engineer at Rivendell, you will be designing and building (at first) our above-ground power generation, heat exchanger, and reinjection infrastructure at our first hydrothermal-geothermal power plant site. As we begin work on the capital equipment for production of steel, cement, fuels, and commodity chemicals, you will be involved in this, too.
We're going to be doing a *lot* of industrial construction. You'll own planning but also be on-site building reactors and pressure vessels. Although we may outsource engineering, procurement, and construction to some degree in order to speed up the time-to-first-power of our first plant, we intend to be ridiculously vertically integrated in the long-term, and so we need people who are comfortable blurring the line between engineer and technician. We want people who are equally comfortable in Autodesk and welding shit in inclement weather.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor's in math, physics, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of relevant mechanical engineering experience, ideally from companies that have done large-scale plant work like Shell, Bechtel, SpaceX, or Commonwealth Fusion Systems
- you're the kind of person who thinks Pearl GTL is about as cool as Starbase
- heard of M.W. Kellogg
- ultra, ultra-fast mover, maniacal sense of urgency, your friends are in utter awe at your ability to prioritize
annual salary: 120,000.00 USD
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