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'll be directly responsible for the rapid and innovative build-out of Boom's physical infrastructure, including building engine and airplane Superfactories and test sites. At most companies, this is called a facilities job and you hire a bunch of outsourced real estate and construction contractors. It's a low-status non-strategic role. Everything costs a ton and progresses glacially.
What they're looking for
- Own the full lifecycle of site acquisition, permitting, design, and construction for factories, test sites, and future campuses. If it gets built, you own it
- Define the site strategy — what gets built where, in what order, and to what specification — and drive alignment with program and leadership
- Challenge requirements before executing them. If a program constraint is creating an infrastructure bottleneck, you surface it and propose alternatives. Nothing is sacred
- Manage GCs, subcontractors, and construction vendors — and evaluate on a rolling basis whether key capabilities should stay external, move in-house, or be acquired outright
- Own utility strategy: power substations, natural gas, water, data. If the utility doesn't exist, evaluate whether Boom should build it
- Navigate local politics, permitting, and regulatory relationships as a first-person owner — not a delegator. County commissioners, planning departments, utility providers. You clear the path
More about this role
You'll be directly responsible for the rapid and innovative build-out of Boom's physical infrastructure, including building engine and airplane Superfactories and test sites.
At most companies, this is called a facilities job and you hire a bunch of outsourced real estate and construction contractors. It's a low-status non-strategic role. Everything costs a ton and progresses glacially.
At Boom, our physical infrastructure is a first class citizen. You will push the envelope technically and politically on building amazing infrastructure quickly and efficiently. We take our factories as seriously as our engines and airplanes.
You'll build America's most vertically-integrated aviation and energy company, down to pouring our own concrete for the factory where we will pour our own alloy to make our own blades for our own engine which powers our own airplane.
What you'll do
- Own the full lifecycle of site acquisition, permitting, design, and construction for factories, test sites, and future campuses. If it gets built, you own it.
- Define the site strategy — what gets built where, in what order, and to what specification — and drive alignment with program and leadership.
- Challenge...
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