Roadrunner Venture Studios

Consultant

• Advise on turbine and expander design suitable for geothermal or low-enthalpy steam cycles.
• Review and refine thermodynamic cycle models and mechanical system assumptions.
• Support design trade-offs related to flow efficiency, blade geometry, and materials.
• Evaluate candidate configurations for manufacturability, maintenance, and system integration.
• Provide concise deliverables and progress updates within ~10 hours/month of consulting time.
• Collaborate with the technical and founding teams to align modeling work with prototype development and testing plans.

Turbo Machinery Consultant – Steam & Geothermal Systems

Recruitment

• Talent map technical & business leaders; build target lists by company, lab, and research lineage.
• Market map emerging sub-sectors; track who’s building what, where, and why it matters.
• Source founders, founding hires, and SMEs across universities, national labs, open-source communities, and stealth startups.
• Assess signal (not hype): translate patents, papers and traction into action.
• Engage founders (technical and commercial) with thoughtful outreach, curiosity, and follow-through.
• Organize our Pipeline: keep Sheets/Airtable/ATS records crisp, tagged, and searchable; maintain warm-lists.
• Champion the brand: show up as Roadrunner in online communities, events, and intros—leave people impressed.

Sourcing Recruiter, Deep Tech

• Adapt and enhance existing subsurface CFD models for geothermal well applications.
• Simulate pressure and temperature fields and capture the coupled physics of downhole heat exchangers.
• Apply open-source numerical frameworks such as PETSc or OpenGeoSys for solver development and refinement.
• Provide concise deliverables and progress updates within ~10 hours/month of consulting time.
• Collaborate with the technical team to align modeling assumptions with engineering requirements.

Turbo Machinery Consultant – Steam & Geothermal Systems

Sourcing Recruiter, Deep Tech

Computational Fluid Dynamics Consultant – Subsurface & Geothermal