Fast-transient power systems. Embedded controllers operating in millisecond time scales. Instrumentation and controls that turn a gas turbine into an intelligent machine. Backed by Bessemer, Y Combinator and South Park Commons.
About the role
You will own the test programs that take our first engine from assembled hardware to first fire, and then through back-to-back development campaigns toward a revenue-generating turbine and the first aero engine. This isn't a role where you inherit a mature program and run a fixed test matrix. You'll build the test organization, define how it operates, and own the judgment calls that keep us moving fast without compromising safety.
What they're looking for
- Architect the engine test program from a blank sheet: instrumentation, procedures, acceptance criteria, and standards
- Build and lead the test team: hire it, train it, and make it able to run at pace
- Build a new control room and design the curriculum that decides who is qualified to serve in it
- Run three engine development campaigns back to back, on a schedule with a paying customer at the other end
- Hold the line on safety and quality under real schedule pressure
- The entire path from cold hardware to first fire and beyond, including all readiness gates
More about this role
Boom is building the Superpower industrial gas turbine, and the Symphony supersonic turbofan. Both of these machines share a common core which is metaphorically and literally, the core of our business. In the Superpower configuration, we will deliver gigawatts of electrical power to the frontier AI data centers building their own co-located power plants. The sales of Superpower directly fund Symphony and Overture's testing and certification effort.
You will own the test programs that take our first engine from assembled hardware to first fire, and then through back-to-back development campaigns toward a revenue-generating turbine and the first aero engine. This isn't a role where you inherit a mature program and run a fixed test matrix. You'll build the test organization, define how it operates, and own the judgment calls that keep us moving fast without compromising safety.
This unique role will have a huge impact on the development of the worlds first clean sheet civil supersonic turbofan and could grow to own the acceptance testing of hundreds of turbines per year, the flight testing of Overture, or both.
What you'll do
- Architect the engine test program from a blank sheet:...
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