Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company focused on eliminating the need for fossil fuels in heavy industry and powering a sustainable future. The company’s AI-enabled, modular concentrated solar technology aims to cost-effectively deliver near 24/7 carbon-free energy in the form of heat, power, or green hydrogen fuel at scale – for the first time in history.

Heliogen seeks a Mechanical Design Engineer to support internal and contracted development efforts related to advanced heat exchangers, rotating machinery, thermal systems, and our heliostat field technology. A Mechanical Design Engineer in the Power Generation team will have the opportunity to work with leading developers of solar thermal energy collection and storage systems to deploy our next generation concentrating solar power plant, including support of testing, prototype fabrication, and commissioning.

**You Aspire To: **

• Work in a highly collaborative environment, supporting engineers in multiple departments to design components and sub-systems fabricated for testing or manufactured for customer projects.
• Lead or support design test setups and hardware.
• Support system integration design, modeling, and analysis including accounting for impacts on piping, ducting, and balance of plant equipment.
• Consider heat transfer, material properties, and service limits in the design of equipment exposed to high temperature and thermal cycling.
• Interface with other engineers, and field personnel to support the execution of component testing.

What's Essential:

• A passion for renewable energy technology development in a startup environment
• Associates degree plus 2 years of related experience or B.S. in Mechanical or related engineering field
• Experience designing 3D parts in CAD software (Solidworks preferred)
• Experience producing drawings for manufacturing
• Experience with fits and clearance calculations including tolerance stack analysis
• Basic experience with structural CAE packages such as Ansys
• Passion for designing / testing hardware

Desirable Experience:

• Hands-on experience in:
  • Machine or mechanism design and testing
  • Equipment manufacturing and installation
• Experience with heat exchangers including plate- and tube-fin technologies
• Experience with sCO2 heat exchanger and/or turbomachinery design, analysis, and testing
• Familiarity developing small-scale prototypes from design to manufacturing
• Familiarity with industrial codes and standards relevant to piping, boilers, pressure vessels, and industrial applications from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Petroleum Institute (API)

Heliogen was created at Idealab, the leading technology incubator founded by Bill Gross in 1996.