Jobs at Panthalassa

Own full-cycle recruiting for specialized engineering, scientific, technical, and other roles. Develop sourcing strategies, build candidate pipelines, assess technical and cultural fit, coordinate interviews, partner with hiring managers, and deliver an exceptional candidate experience. Use recruiting data, market insights, and compensation benchmarks to guide hiring decisions while representing the company’s mission and culture. Support high-volume hiring in a fast-paced startup environment and travel to vendors and test sites as needed.

Build and maintain financial planning infrastructure supporting budgeting, forecasting, liquidity, capital allocation, manufacturing scale-up, and deployment decisions. Develop corporate, project, structured financing, tax credit, and asset-level models; translate operational data into financial forecasts; reconcile forecasts with accounting actuals; and prepare leadership, investor, lender, and board materials. Support equity and debt raises, improve financial systems, and provide clear recommendations in a high-growth renewable energy environment.

Owns industrialization from pilot production through qualified volume manufacturing. Responsibilities include manufacturing strategy, capacity and cost modeling, equipment specification and procurement, facility and line planning, installation and commissioning, process qualification, production ramping, vendor management, and eventual leadership of an industrialization and manufacturing engineering team. The role requires regular on-site work in Portland and Vancouver, plus substantial domestic and international travel.

Coordinate workplace operations, hospitality, food and beverage services, vendor relationships, shared-space readiness, meetings, visitor support, and company events. Maintain inventory, organize catering and meal programs, coordinate service calls, support administrative tasks, and identify process improvements. This onsite, hands-on role requires proactive service, strong organization, physical activity, and reliable follow-through in a fast-paced environment.

Manage daily warehouse logistics, including receiving, inventory control, material handling, internal parts delivery, packing, shipping, and carrier coordination. Maintain accurate physical and digital inventory records, perform audits, support export compliance, and operate material-handling equipment safely. Help develop scalable warehouse procedures, layouts, SOPs, and material-flow strategies while partnering with manufacturing and engineering and potentially growing into a leadership role.

Design and operate corporate wired and wireless network infrastructure across Portland offices, labs, and future facilities. Establish scalable standards, automation, monitoring, documentation, security controls, and cloud connectivity. Partner with facilities, contractors, vendors, infrastructure, and DevOps teams on buildouts, procurement, and lifecycle planning. Perform hands-on installations, wireless surveys, troubleshooting, and incident response while participating in on-call support. The role may expand into zero trust, hybrid connectivity, observability, IoT, marine networking, and mentoring.

The Lead NX Design Engineer will own engineering documentation and standards, focusing on complex assembly drawings for safety-critical welded structures using Siemens NX, bridging design and production processes.

Build Panthalassa’s communications function from scratch and lead brand narrative, media relations, executive communications, social media, and community engagement. Partner with executives and cross-functional teams to explain complex science and technology, build trust with investors, policymakers, media, partners, employees, and the public, and establish the company’s public profile. The role includes developing communications strategies, managing media relationships, creating content, securing executive speaking opportunities, and building high-performing communications teams.

The IT Engineer will manage endpoint systems, oversee IT infrastructure, implement security policies, and mentor IT Support Specialists.

The opportunity is for students or early-career individuals to express interest in future internships related to renewable energy and ocean technology. This is not a current internship application but a way to stay connected for potential opportunities.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will design, develop, and analyze the Node structures for offshore deployment, performing structural validations and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams while mentoring less-experienced engineers.

The Senior Fluids Engineer will design and develop fluid systems for the core technology, ensuring performance and reliability through collaboration and engineering documentation.

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will design and analyze Node structures and subsystems, perform structural analysis, and manage CAD models and drawings, ensuring their manufacturability and reliability in offshore conditions.

The role involves supporting the EVP of Strategy with various tasks including calendar management, document preparation, financial modeling, communications, and stakeholder engagement in a renewable energy company.

Design and deliver hull systems for long-duration ocean deployment: perform stability, weights, seakeeping, and hydrodynamic analyses; produce structural and mechanical designs and fabrication drawings; lead multidisciplinary investigations into hydrodynamic loads; collaborate with marine operations, fabricators, regulators, and insurers; drive corrosion and biofouling strategies and ensure seaworthiness and deployability of Node systems.

Lead naval architecture for ocean-deployed hull systems: perform stability and weights analyses, develop structural and mechanical designs, release fabrication drawings, conduct hydrodynamic and Orcaflex studies, define seakeeping/mooring requirements, drive corrosion/biofouling strategies, and liaise with regulators, insurers, fabricators, and marine operations teams.

Lead design, fabrication, testing, and commissioning of bespoke marine support systems for offshore energy nodes. Perform trade studies and engineering analyses, produce detailed CAD designs, oversee fabrication and field engineering, support offshore commissioning, and provide sustaining engineering and vendor management for deployment, retrieval, inspection, and maintenance tools.

Lead design, fabrication, testing, commissioning, and sustainment of bespoke marine support equipment for automated offshore deployment and maintenance. Manage small offshore operations team, coordinate vendors and vessels, perform trade studies and engineering analyses, develop CAD designs, oversee fabrication/testing, and interface with regulators.

Lead design, fabrication, testing, commissioning, and sustaining engineering of automated marine support systems for offshore energy nodes. Perform trade studies, engineering analyses, detailed CAD design, vendor management, and support offshore commissioning and operations.

Provide high-trust, hands-on support to the CEO by managing inbox, calendar, travel, events, meeting prep and personal logistics. Ensure responsiveness, discretion, and follow-through across professional and personal tasks, coordinating with senior leaders and the Chief of Staff to keep the CEO prepared and unencumbered.