Environmental Health and Safety Lead

7+ years experience in Environmental Health & Safety roles supporting engineering, R&D, industrial, fabrication, or manufacturing environments.

Demonstrated ability to build or scale a safety program in a fast-changing or early-stage context.

Strong technical understanding of OSHA regulations, hazard communication standards, industrial safety, and risk assessment methodologies.

Experience with high-voltage electrical safety, including NFPA 70E requirements, arc flash analysis, LOTO programs, and safe energized work practices.

Working knowledge of lithium-ion battery safety, including storage, handling, thermal runaway risk mitigation, hazardous waste classification, and environmental compliance obligations.

Experience supporting environments with energy storage systems, high-power test equipment, or power conversion hardware.

If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:

Cash compensation of  $135,000 - $185,000

Equity in the company. We’re all owners and if we’re successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.

A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:

Flexible paid time off

Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)

Our core technology is the node, a device that produces energy in the ocean’s harshest conditions for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention.

We are seeking an Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Lead to build and scale a proactive, consistent safety program across labs, fabrication spaces, marine operations, pilot manufacturing, and field environments. This role is not just about expertise—it’s about partnership. You will work side-by-side with engineers, technicians, and operators to identify risks early, develop practical solutions, and embed safety directly into how work gets designed and done.

This is a unique opportunity to design safety systems from the ground up in a fast-moving engineering environment. The EHS Lead will champion our Safety Principles, integrate safety into engineering and design processes, and help teams solve real problems—balancing rigor with pragmatism so safety enables progress rather than slowing it down.

We’re looking for someone who thrives in a startup culture, prefers practical, lightweight processes over bureaucracy, and approaches safety as a collaborative, solutions-oriented discipline. At Panthalassa, safety is an enabler, not a gate, and this role is central to making that real.

Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Tesla, Apple, Virgin Orbit, Astra, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries. We are organized as a public benefit corporation and are backed by leading venture capital firms, private investors, philanthropic investors, and endowments.

We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.

The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.