# Thermodynamics Engineer

Drogue is building free-floating, off-grid energy platforms at sea for customers who can't get power fast enough on land. Using the ocean's thermal gradient, each platform generates affordable, baseload electricity with no grid interconnection queues, no permitting delays, and no fuel supply chains. We're a small team of engineers taking on a first-of-its-kind challenge with proven hardware and first principles thinking. If you love hard problems and want to build something new, keep reading. This is the role that makes our economics work. As a Thermodynamics Engineer you’ll model and simulate the thermal architecture of the entire platform: from ocean thermal to waste heat recovery to turn rejected compute heat back into usable power. The ocean is both our heat sink and our energy source, and you'll be in charge of choosing the best ways to optimize our system. Responsibilities: Design and optimize ocean thermal energy systems that leverage seawater temperature differentials for power generation Architect waste heat recovery systems, capturing thermal output from high-density compute and recovering it via ORC Own working fluid selection, thermodynamic cycle optimization, turbine

- **Id**: 796836
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/drogue-thermodynamics-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-24T01:41:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:57:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 197
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2137
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Chemical Engineering, Energy Storage, Solar Energy

## Company

- **Id**: 674141
- **Name**: Drogue
- **Domain**: drogue.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/drogue>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 69000
- **Max usd**: 162000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 15150

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 197

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T05:41:56Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.135
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 197
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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