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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.
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We are seeking a Senior Fluids Engineer to play a critical role in the design and development of the fluid systems that power our core technology, the “Node.” The Node is designed to operate in some of the harshest ocean conditions for extended periods without maintenance, and fluid systems are central to its performance and reliability.
In this role, you will own the design and delivery of critical fluid subsystems and components, working within the broader system architecture to ensure performance, reliability, and manufacturability. You will contribute deep technical expertise across design, analysis, testing, and deployment, partnering closely with mechanical design, manufacturing, and test teams.
This role is ideal for a highly capable engineer who thrives in hands-on technical work, enjoys solving complex problems, and is motivated to build robust, real-world systems. You will have significant ownership over your work while collaborating closely with senior technical leaders to refine system-level design decisions.
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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. Our core technology is the node, a device that produces energy in the ocean’s harshest conditions for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention.
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 building hardware that has to survive real ocean conditions. That means constant prototyping, welding, fabrication, and iteration. Our shop is not a support function, it is central to the company’s success. As a Senior Prototype Engineer, Welding, you will design and build prototype and flight hardware, develop fixturing and production processes, and help shape the long-term capabilities of our shop.
You will work side-by-side with engineers and machinists to turn concepts into hardware quickly and correctly. You will own weldments and assemblies from drawing to finished part, provide direct DFM feedback to design engineers, and help ensure the shop runs safely and efficiently. Good work in this role looks like strong hardware, clean welds, practical fixtures, clear documentation, and a shop that gets better every month.
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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.
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Deployment & Travel
The ability to support occasional deployment or field assignments of up to two weeks at a time, one to two times per year. While this is not a deal-breaker, candidates should be open to periodic travel or on-site work as needed for operational support.
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This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon. This position requires daily on-site work.
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About the Company
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.
About the Job
Panthalassa is moving from prototype systems toward repeatable production, larger facilities, more connected enterprise systems, and increasingly mission-critical software, infrastructure, and operational data flows. We’re hiring a Director of Information Security to scale and mature the security foundations that will allow the company to scale quickly without losing control.
This is a hands-on, high-leverage builder role. You will own the technical direction of Panthalassa’s information security program across corporate infrastructure, cloud environments, engineering systems, identity and access management, enterprise applications, and security operations. Your job is not to create bureaucracy. Your job is to build practical guardrails, resilient architectures, and clear operating mechanisms that make the company more secure while helping engineering, manufacturing, and business teams move faster.
You’ll partner closely with IT, software, test, enterprise systems, manufacturing, and leadership to identify the highest-risk gaps, prioritize what matters, and implement controls that are robust, scalable, and usable in the real world. This role is both an individual contributor and a strategic leadership role, where you will shape the broader security organization, vendor strategy, and long-term roadmap.
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Required Qualifications
Desired Qualifications
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.
Additional Requirements
Compensation and Benefits
If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:
Location
This is an on-site position with expectation of regular presence in our Portland facilities (4+ days/week). Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon. This position may require occasional domestic and international travel for new office or facility buildouts.
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About the Company
Panthalassa is 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. We operate as an idea meritocracy where the best ideas win, and we are building the most capable engineering and operations team on the planet.
About the Role
We are seeking an NX Design Engineer to serve as the technical authority for engineering documentation and release. While the broader engineering team owns the hardware in the full lifecycle, you will own the standards of excellence for how that hardware is defined and released.
In this role, you will be the lead practitioner in Siemens NX, responsible for the creation and management of complex assembly drawings for our "Node"—a device designed to generate energy and survive for more than a decade in the harshest ocean conditions. You are expected to set the benchmark for quantity and quality of drawings, particularly for large, safety-critical welded steel structures. You will bridge the gap between initial design concepts and production-ready engineering releases.
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Location
On-site, our offices, lab, shop, and manufacturing facilities are located in and near Portland, Oregon.
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The open ocean is Earth’s largest and most power-dense renewable energy resource. Panthalassa is harnessing that resource to generate the cheapest energy on the planet. Our mission is to provide abundant and affordable clean energy for everyone.
Founded in 2016 and based in the Pacific Northwest, our team comes from diverse backgrounds in aerospace, naval architecture, marine operations, hardware, software, and research.
Our core technology is the Node, a device that produces energy in the ocean’s harshest conditions for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. The Node's turbo-generator system is the critical component which includes all components from the fluid interface through to encompassing electromechanical energy conversion, dynamic sealing, structural integration, and control interfaces.
As the Technician – Turbines & Generators, you will support the manufacturing, machining, assembly, and integration of hydro turbines and generators. This is a roll-up-your-sleeves role in which you'll prototype, build, and troubleshoot alongside world-class engineers.
This role sits at the intersection of precision machining, electromechanical assembly, and innovative fixture design, supporting prototype builds as well as low-volume production. You will work closely with generators, fluid dynamics, mechanical engineers and highly skilled electrical technicians to translate designs into robust, manufacturable hardware, ultimately ending in its deployment in the Node at sea.
Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and 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 technician, regardless of your background, we want you to apply.
Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Tesla, Apple, Virgin Orbit, Astra, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, 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:
This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.
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The open ocean is Earth’s largest and most power-dense renewable energy resource. Panthalassa is harnessing that resource to generate the cheapest energy on the planet. Our mission is to provide abundant and affordable clean energy for everyone.
We are rapidly scaling high-power test infrastructure for compute, power electronics, and turbine systems while bringing online state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment across multiple sites. In this environment, identifying creative, practical solutions that enable the delivery of sufficient power—quickly and reliably—will be a key contributor to the company’s success.
Founded in 2016 and based in the Pacific Northwest, our team comes from diverse backgrounds in aerospace, naval architecture, marine operations, hardware, software, and research.
We are building a core technology designed to operate in the harshest, most unpredictable environments on Earth, the world’s oceans. Delivering on this mission requires not only elite engineering talent but a work environment that runs smoothly, scales intelligently, and frees our team to focus on solving impossibly hard problems.
We are looking for an Electrical Infrastructure Engineer to serve as the technical authority for the design and evolution of electrical infrastructure across our facilities. This role spans existing operations and new build-outs, covering infrastructure upgrades, new facility diligence, design input, installation, commissioning, and long-term system performance.
This is a design-forward role for someone who understands how power infrastructure actually gets delivered today, how to source it, design it, and scale it under real-world constraints. You will develop strategies to unlock megawatt-scale capacity quickly by combining traditional and non-traditional infrastructure approaches.
You are comfortable working upstream, shaping electrical architecture, identifying risks early, and translating evolving engineering needs into practical, buildable infrastructure plans that can be executed with quality and speed.
Power Strategy & Infrastructure Design
Electrical Infrastructure & Maintenance
Design & Planning Review
This is a full-time, onsite role at our Portland, OR facility. The work involves regular time on the shop floor, in mechanical and electrical rooms, and in active construction or buildout environments. Candidates should be comfortable working alongside engineers, technicians, and contractors in a hands-on industrial setting.
If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:
This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.
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Portland, OR
About The Company
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.
About The Job
We are seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer, Fluids to join our team and provide technical leadership for the mechanical design and development of our core technology, the "Node." The Node is a device designed to produce energy in the harshest ocean conditions for extended periods without maintenance. This role is crucial to the success of our mission. Fluids are at the core of how our node operates. You will be responsible for the designs and eventually the team that designs all fluid systems in our nodes.
This is a role that requires extensive design and analysis experience, abilities to make outstanding technical contributions, and leadership abilities that are effective in a humble and high performance culture. While defining the design for our Node fluid systems, you will build and manage a team to support the future iterations of our Nodes. The ideal candidate is a technical expert and a practical builder comfortable with personally conducting detailed design work, values working alongside our manufacturing team, and is a skilled leader who has well developed interpersonal skills and a passion for developing others. You must thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment.
Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke, Boeing, Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, 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. If you are an excellent engineer and technical leader, regardless of your background, we want you to apply.
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.
Additional Requirements
Compensation and Benefits
If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:
Location
This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.
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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 seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer, Structures to join our team and provide technical leadership for the mechanical design and development of our core technology, the "Node." The Node is a device designed to produce energy in the harshest ocean conditions for extended periods without maintenance. This role is crucial to the success of our mission. You will be responsible for the hull and the team that form the backbone of our Nodes.
This is a role that requires deep structural design experience, ability to make outstanding technical contributions, and leadership abilities that are effective in a humble and high performance culture. While defining the design for our Nodes, you will build and manage a team to support the future iterations of our Nodes. The ideal candidate is a technical expert and a practical builder comfortable with personally conducting detailed design work, values working alongside our manufacturing team, and is a skilled leader who has well developed interpersonal skills and a passion for developing others. You must thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment.
Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke, Boeing, Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, 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. If you are an excellent engineer and technical leader, regardless of your background, we want you to apply.
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:
This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.
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About the Company
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 Senior Structural Engineer, you will spearhead the structural analysis of numerous mechanical systems and help develop innovative methods and tools to select the best designs across a design space of millions of possibilities.
You will be a key part of the team responsible for the development of algorithms, pipelines, and other software to drive efficient structural analysis and cost estimation. You will also play a critical role in developing best practices and approaches for structural analysis as well as performing detailed stress and fatigue analysis of point designs. We expect you to be especially strong in structural analysis and coding, and to gravitate toward first-principles/fundamental-physics when solving problems.
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.
Compensation and Benefits
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.
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About Panthalassa
The open ocean is Earth’s largest and most power-dense renewable energy resource. Panthalassa is harnessing that resource to generate the cheapest energy on the planet. Our mission is to provide abundant and affordable clean energy for everyone.
Founded in 2016 and based in the Pacific Northwest, our team comes from diverse backgrounds in aerospace, naval architecture, marine operations, hardware, software, and research.
About the Role
Panthalassa is building core technology designed to operate in the harshest, most unpredictable environments on Earth—the world's oceans. That kind of work demands intense focus, fast iteration, and a team operating at a high level every day.
The Hospitality Associate plays a vital role in enabling that focus through high-touch, reliable service. You'll oversee the workplace hospitality programs that keep our teams fueled, supported, and ready to perform at their best. This includes maintaining shared spaces at a consistently high standard, and managing daily kitchen and food service operations.
This is a hands-on role for someone who takes pride in serving others through excellence, consistency, and proactive follow-through — and who doesn't just execute routines but improves them. You notice what's off, you fix it, and you come back with a better way to prevent it next time. Your work helps create a workplace that feels cared for, organized, and ready for anything.
Workplace Hospitality + Daily Operations
Vendor Coordination
Visitor & Hospitality Experience
Food & Beverage Operations
Who You Are
You're service-driven, observant, and take pride in running a space that helps people do their best work. You notice what's off before anyone else does — and you fix it. You can move quickly without being sloppy, and you balance urgency with quality. You don't just follow routines — you improve them. You value feedback and constructive criticism as a means to raise the bar on everything you touch.
Qualities We're Looking For
Experience
Qualifications
Work Environment
This role is onsite and active. You’ll be regularly moving through spaces, lifting supplies, setting up rooms, and supporting real-time needs across the facility.
Why This Role Matters
Panthalassa’s work is hard, fast, and deeply technical. A well-run workplace is a force multiplier—removing friction, supporting focus, and helping teams operate at a high level. This role is essential to creating an environment where people feel cared for, supported, and able to execute.
Compensation and Benefits
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Location
This is an on-site position. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.
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About the Company
Panthalassa is 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 mission is to capture civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.
We are headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and operate as a public benefit corporation backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, and university endowments. Our team includes individuals with experience at SpaceX, Tesla, Apple, Blue Origin, the U.S. military, and leading research universities. We operate as an idea meritocracy—where the best ideas win—and we’re building the most capable engineering and operations team on the planet.
About the Job
We are seeking an experienced Test Engineer, Electromechanical Integration to design, build, and commission control systems and mechanical hardware for our large-scale test facilities. This role spans the complete lifecycle - from CAD design and electrical schematics through panel fabrication, assembly, and commissioning - bridging mechanical and electrical engineering.
You'll collaborate closely with other engineers and designers across disciplines to determine system requirements, design hardware, and integrate mechanical and electronics systems into functional assemblies. Your work will ensure our test infrastructure operates safely, meets industrial standards, and performs reliably in demanding environments.
You'll also get hands-on; assembling, wiring, and machining parts to bring ideas into functional prototypes and final hardware. Within your first year, you'll be a trusted contributor to critical builds and a go-to resource for practical design and integration expertise.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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.
Additional Requirements
Compensation and Benefits
If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:
Location
This is an onsite position. This position requires daily on-site work. Our offices, lab and shop, are located in Portland, Oregon.
Candidates must have the legal right to work in the United States. We are unable to provide new visa sponsorship for this role; however, we may consider H-1B transfer applications from exceptional candidates.
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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 seeking a Fleet Operations Lead Engineer to join our team and provide technical leadership for the operation of the autonomous wave power generator we call a "Node". The Node is a device designed to produce energy in the harshest ocean conditions for extended periods without maintenance. This role is crucial to our success; you will be responsible for ensuring that all individual nodes and the node fleet operate safety and optimally. You will bring together the fleet control software, marine ops, node controllers, and customer interface.
You will be responsible for the design of fleet ops from key requirements to architecting the operations protocols and standards, to fleet management, monitoring and repositioning.
Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, and Virgin Orbit, and we strive to be the best engineering and operations team on the planet.
Additional Requirements
Compensation and Benefits
If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:
Location
This is an onsite position. Open to discussing hybrid arrangements. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.
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About the Company
Panthalassa is 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.
We are headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and operate as a public benefit corporation backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, and university endowments. Our team includes individuals with experience at SpaceX, Tesla, Apple, Blue Origin, the U.S. military, research universities, and mission-driven startups. We operate as an idea meritocracy—where the best ideas win, and we’re building the most capable engineering and operations team on the planet.
About the Role
As Configuration Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the infrastructure, processes, and tools that support Panthalassa’s engineering release systems and broader digital thread. This includes building the foundation for a world-class, model-based engineering environment and accelerating our ability to release, manufacture, and scale products efficiently and accurately.
We’re looking for someone ready to roll up their sleeves and take us from where we are today to an implementation that is outstanding in the field. You are hands-on, pragmatic, and deeply motivated by building systems that scale. You understand the foundational importance of getting engineering release right—and you see the impact of doing so across the full product lifecycle.
You’ll work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Business Operations to improve the performance of current systems while designing and executing a long-term roadmap that supports production rates as we scale. This is a builder role with high impact and high visibility. You’ll help define how we build the systems to support mass production and the delivery of ocean-based renewable energy at global scale.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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.
Additional Requirements
Compensation and Benefits
If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:
Location
On-site, our offices, lab, shop, and manufacturing facilities are located in and near Portland, Oregon.
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