Jobs at Roadrunner Venture Studios

Lead architecture, development, testing, qualification, and production planning for a field-deployed combustion hardware system. Own mechanical, thermal, fluid, structural, controls, and instrumentation engineering; manage external engineering and manufacturing partners; oversee documentation, supplier packages, budgets, schedules, and technical quality; and build a hardware engineering team. The role requires hands-on work across prototypes, field operations, failure analysis, and transition to production-scale manufacturing.

Lead Roadrunner Venture Studios’ venture creation platform, guiding multidisciplinary teams from technology thesis through company formation and scale. Build deep-tech ventures from zero to one by defining products and markets, validating customers, recruiting founding teams, securing pilots, raising venture and non-dilutive capital, and supporting commercialization. Serve as an operator, advisor, and potential interim CEO or board member while developing repeatable venture-building frameworks and mentoring venture creation teams.

Lead architecture, development, qualification, field deployment, and production planning for a novel rainfall-enhancement hardware system. Own mechanical, thermal, combustion, fluid, structural, controls, and instrumentation systems; manage testing, troubleshooting, manufacturing readiness, budgets, schedules, suppliers, fabricators, and external engineering partners. Recruit and mentor a hardware engineering team while driving technical quality and reliability in a fast-paced startup environment requiring frequent travel and extended hours.

Contract SME to develop and execute an experimental test program for a two-phase nozzle: design thrust measurement, characterize spray and mixed-phase flow, collect and analyze pressure/temperature/flow data, reduce variables, recommend instrumentation and fixtures, and improve nozzle performance and test methodology.

The Turbo Machinery Advisor will guide turbine and expander development, mentor engineers, oversee testing, and ensure regulatory compliance while leveraging industry expertise and partnerships.

Work directly with the CEO to drive strategic, cross-functional initiatives, establish executive operating rhythms, support M&A diligence and integration, prepare executive materials for boards and government engagements, build market and competitor analysis, and align communications across the executive team and acquired businesses.