Lead Combustion Engineer
Arbor EnergyEl Segundo, California
Full Time
Posted December 22, 2025
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Job Description
The Lead Combustion Engineer is responsible for developing and leading high-pressure oxy-fuel combustion systems for carbon-neutral power generation, guiding a team through design, testing, and optimization to achieve high efficiency and reliability in a fast-paced startup environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and lead the development of high-pressure oxy-fuel combustion systems for carbon-neutral and carbon-negative power cycles.
- Guide a team through end-to-end design, modeling, testing, and validation of combustion devices.
- Drive technical strategy from concept to implementation, including rapid iteration and performance optimization.
- Mentor junior engineers and coordinate efforts across test, analysis, and design teams.
- Make critical trade-off decisions to enhance efficiency, reliability, and performance of combustion systems.
Requirements
- Experience serving as the technical authority for combustion systems, specifically pioneering high-pressure oxy-fuel combustion systems similar to rocket-inspired designs.
- Ownership of the combustion subsystem, including guiding a team through end-to-end development of high-efficiency combustion devices.
- Ability to drive strategy from clean-sheet concepts and advanced modeling to hands-on testing, rapid iteration, and performance validation of combustion systems.
- Proven experience in making critical trade-off decisions to optimize efficiency and reliability of combustion devices.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and aligning cross-functional efforts with test, analysis, and design teams.
- Demonstrated capability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment focused on breakthrough, high-efficiency combustion technology.
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