We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.
The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.
We are developing a core technology that will operate in the worst conditions the world’s oceans have to offer for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. As we advance our technology from the prototype phase to commercialization, we need an engineer who can bridge the gap between real-world sensor data and our internal simulation tools. You will be expected to operate our entire stack from end-to-end—running reduced-order physics simulations, managing cloud-based data, and post-processing results. Your work will inform our fleet operations and updates to future designs of our technology. With a fleet in operation, your goal is to ensure that what we see on our screens matches what is happening in the ocean, using fleet data to initialize simulations and diagnosing any anomalies that arise during operations. You will own the digital twin of our fleet - we expect you to have strong experience in both simulation and data acquisition & processing.
Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis. If you are an excellent engineer, regardless of your background, we want you to apply. Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, Bridgewater Associates, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries. We are organized as a public benefit corporation and are backed by leading venture capital firms, private investors, philanthropic investors, and endowments.
We strive to be the best engineering team on the planet and we compensate our engineers accordingly.
The above qualifications are desired, not required. We encourage you to apply if you are a strong candidate with only some of the desired skills and experience listed.
If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:
Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon. We strongly prefer that candidates are willing to relocate to Portland, but at a minimum the position requires the ability to travel to Portland intermittently
The open ocean is Earth’s largest and most power-dense renewable energy resource. We’re harnessing that resource to produce the cheapest energy on the planet for clean compute at sea and renewable fuels to shore.
