Staff Applications Engineer

🕒 July 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💻 Application Engineer

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Antora Energy

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51 - 200 employees

⚡ Energy

🏭 Manufacturing

Energy • Manufacturing

Antora Energy is electrifying heavy industry with zero-carbon heat and power. We make it possible and profitable to fully rely on renewable energy for industrial processes. Antora Energy's thermal energy storage absorbs excess solar and wind electricity and uses it to heat blocks of carbon, which then produce high-temperature thermal energy delivered as electricity or industrial process heat up to 1500°C. This technology eliminates the need to burn fossil fuels for industrial heat and power, addressing one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases.

📋 Description

• Serve as the technical lead for customer opportunities across industrial heat, combined heat & power, and power applications, joining business development on sales calls and owning the technical conversation with customer engineering/operations teams and executives • Run technical discovery: own customer data requests (load profiles, steam conditions, utility data, plot plans, one-lines) and site walkdowns; validate opportunity screens for standard applications and run first-pass technical screening for novel ones • Size and configure Antora's product for each site within its configurable envelope, creatively optimizing trade-offs across performance, cost, and site constraints • Produce conceptual site layouts, heat integration designs, and site boundary-condition definitions • Own the product-side electrical configuration and manage the product-to-interconnection interface with our energy/interconnection team • Own proposal-stage configuration analysis and cost estimates supporting letters of intent, term sheets, and internal investment approvals • Support RFP/RFI responses; anticipate and resolve customer technical objections to keep deals moving • Support commercial negotiations with technical exhibits and performance guarantees for LOIs and term sheets with sharp judgment on the economic implications of design choices and guarantees we commit to • Prepare basis-of-design handoff packages (configuration specs, layouts, integration concepts, assumptions, and risks) that enable project engineering to pick up projects cleanly for detailed design (FEED and beyond) • Channel voice-of-customer and market intel back to product management to sharpen the product and roadmap • Scale the applications engineering function: partner with our software and AI team to build tools to automate processes such as layouts, drawings, and cost estimates; mentor and help grow a small team of applications engineers over time • Typical travel of ~25%, potentially including some international travel

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or equivalent in mechanical, chemical, or electrical engineering (or related field) and 12+ years of experience (or 8+ with a relevant advanced degree) across utility-scale energy projects, large industrial facilities, and/or energy equipment applications • Deep expertise in either industrial process/thermal systems (steam and utility systems, heat integration) or power systems (MV/HV electrical, grid interconnection) – with working fluency in the other and the range to engage customer engineers credibly in both • Experience with energy storage and/or utility-scale energy projects, including site layout and equipment configuration • Familiarity with codes and standards governing industrial energy facilities – NFPA, NEC, ASME, API, UL, etc. • Comfortable producing and reviewing PFDs, one-line diagrams, and site layout drawings • Strong techno-economic intuition and commercial judgment – instinctively connects configuration trade-offs and performance guarantees to project economics • Exceptional customer-facing communication and presentation skills • AI-fluent: high level of comfort with leading AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and has strong instincts for which workflows to automate • Self-directed operator who thrives running many parallel projects in a fast-paced startup environment

🏖️ Benefits

• equity compensation in the form of stock options • premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance • 401K plan with employer contributions • flexible spending accounts • industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance • paid volunteer time off