Arbor Energy
Engineering Manager - Turbomachinery
El Segundo, CA · Mid
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$15kDetected 77 days ago
Mechanical DesignPower ElectronicsLeadership
About the role
- This role requires a technically deep leader who thrives in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment and is comfortable owning both the engineering details and team execution.
- BECCS is a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approach that uses biomass to produce energy and remove CO₂ from the atmosphere and store it permanently underground, while ensuring food security, rural livelihoods, and biodiversity are not affected.
- Our team brings together a passion for science, technology, and global stewardship to make low-cost, high-quality carbon removal and baseload power a reality.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and manage a turbomachinery engineering team (typically 5-15 engineers across disciplines such as aero, thermal, mechanical, and rotordynamics)
- Own the end-to-end development of rotating equipment, including compressors, turbines, and supporting systems
- Drive product development from concept through validation and release, ensuring performance, cost, and schedule targets are met
- Provide technical leadership across key areas: aerodynamics, heat transfer, structural/mechanical design, rotordynamics, and clearances
- Establish and maintain design processes, technical rigor, and documentation practices (e.g., design reviews, analysis workflows, validation plans)
- Support hardware build, test execution, and troubleshooting-this is not a purely desk-based role
- Mentor and develop engineers, setting clear expectations while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven culture
- Balance speed and rigor-making pragmatic decisions in an environment without large-company support structures
- Proven experience managing and developing engineering teams (minimum 3-5 direct reports)
- Solving global energy challenges requires a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we serve.
Requirements
- 10-15+ years of experience in turbomachinery or rotating equipment (e.g., compressors, turbines, pumps, expanders)
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or a related engineering field
- Demonstrated track record of bringing hardware products from concept through testing and into production
- Ability to operate effectively in a "scrappy" environment with limited resources and evolving processes
- Strong systems thinking and ability to interface across multiple engineering functions
Nice to have
- Experience in small teams, startups, or skunkworks-style programs
- Background in high-speed turbomachinery, novel cycles (e.g., sCO₂, hydrogen), or tightly integrated systems
- Experience setting up or scaling engineering processes in a growing organization
- Prior ownership of a turbomachinery module or full machine
- 12+ company holidays, including Earth Day!
Compensation
- $185,000 - $200,000 USD/year.
- The salary is subject to the applicant's skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.
- Annual learning and development stipend
Benefits
- Pre-IPO stock options
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (Arbor covers 90% for employees)
- Basic life insurance fully covered
- Health savings account (HSA) with matching
- Flexible savings account (FSA)
- Commuter benefits
Company info
- At Arbor Energy & Resources Corporation ("Arbor Energy"), we're creating technology to power our lives while protecting the planet that sustains them. Our advanced power systems deliver clean, reliable baseload electricity with zero operating emissions-modular, fuel-flexible, and engineered for the realities of today's energy demand. At the core is a supercritical CO₂ turbine with integrated carbon capture, designed to bring carbon-neutral power online quickly at meaningful scale.
- Our team includes aerospace engineers, combustion experts, and systems thinkers with a shared goal: to build technology worthy of the world we want to live in. While many of us began our journeys looking to the stars, we're applying that expertise here at home to deliver dependable, emission-free baseload power and a future of lasting abundance.
- If you share our values and are drawn to rigorous work with lasting impact, we'd love to learn more about you. Come build what the future will run on.
- Steward our planet: We build for tomorrow, ensuring every bolt we tighten and every hand we lend leaves our environment stronger than we found it.
- At Arbor Energy & Resources Corporation ("Arbor Energy"), we're creating technology to power our lives while protecting the planet that sustains them.
- Our advanced power systems deliver clean, reliable baseload electricity with zero operating emissions-modular, fuel-flexible, and engineered for the realities of today's energy demand.
- At the core is a supercritical CO₂ turbine with integrated carbon capture, designed to bring carbon-neutral power online quickly at meaningful scale.
- Our team includes aerospace engineers, combustion experts, and systems thinkers with a shared goal: to build technology worthy of the world we want to live in.
- While many of us began our journeys looking to the stars, we're applying that expertise here at home to deliver dependable, emission-free baseload power and a future of lasting abundance.
- If you share our values and are drawn to rigorous work with lasting impact, we'd love to learn more about you.
- Come build what the future will run on.
- Lead with Love: We champion the success of our people, partners, and planet, nurturing excellence through camaraderie and rigor.
- Explore the Uncharted: We embrace the unknown with curiosity, using courage and discipline to transform uncertainty into opportunity.
Equal opportunity
- Arbor Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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