Teams 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.