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We compress pre-FEED and FEED schedules by 30%+ at full engineering quality, run by senior PEs on top of a software platform built around how this work actually gets done. We recently closed a $6.5M round led by Schneider Electric and Yann LeCun. Active pipeline: 200 MW to 2.4 GW BTM gas projects serving AI factories, hyperscale data centers, and gas-to-nuclear bridge architectures across Texas and the Gulf Coast.\nThe Role\nYou lead Candid's engineering practice. Walk into the room with a 30-year nuclear-trained CEO or a Fortune 500 head of engineering and be a peer on day one. Hire the project directors. Stamp the deliverables. Defend Candid against incumbent EPCs (B&V, Bechtel, S&L, B&McD, Worley) on FEED bids. Shape what the platform team builds by feeding back what the work actually needs.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead engineering practice across BTM gas-fired power projects, 200 MW to multi-GW\n\nServe as senior engineering counterparty to client CEOs, Heads of Engineering, VPs of Projects\n\nStamp FEL-2 / FEED deliverables; defend Class 4 estimates with lenders, IC, incumbent EPCs\n\nBuild and lead the engineering team - project directors, senior PEs, multi-discipline leads\n\nArchitect Candid's dual-team execution model (Project Execution Team + FlowState platform team)\n\nShape the platform roadmap with the AI engineering team\n\nWhat You Bring\n20+ years in power generation engineering, deep on combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas\n\nDirected engineering on at least two gas plants at FEED or EPC stage ($200M+ capex). 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