Arpan Rau

Engineering Leader | Aerospace & Robotics Hardware

Founder

OutSail Technologies· Winter 2023🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States

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2025Lead Hardware Engineer· Sorcerer

Founder · since 2017

Company

Sorcerer

Role

Lead Hardware Engineer

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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OutSail Technologies

Revolutionary, Modern Wing Sails

Winter 2023

Experience

Career

Sorcerer
Lead Hardware Engineer · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – 2026
2025
Outsail Technologies
CEO & Lead Engineer · Redwood City, California, United States · 2022 – 2024
2022
Nuro
Technical Product Manager, Autonomy · 2022
2022
Momentus
Product Manager - Vigoride Spacecraft · 2020 – 2021
2020
Impossible Aerospace
Systems Engineer · 2019 – 2020
2019
Astra
Avionics Intern · Alameda, CA · 2018
2018
Relativity
Propulsion & Mechanisms Engineering Intern · Inglewood, CA · 2017 – 2018
2017
Impossible Aerospace
Founder
Aerospace Engineering Intern · Remote · 2017
2017
SpaceX
Structures Engineering Intern · Hawthorne, CA · 2016
2016
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Structures Engineering Intern · 2015
2015
Industrial Measurement Systems
Robotics Engineering Intern · 2014
2014
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mechanical Engineering Intern · Greenbelt, MD · 2013
2013

Bio

I'm an aerospace engineering leader who has been cracking near-impossible problems for over a decade. Currently lead engineer @Sorcerer. I was founder and CEO of OutSail Technologies, a company dedicated to moving maritime freight economically, using wind power. We sunset the company after realizing fundamental-physics problems with our technology. Previously shipped hardware or lead teams at: SpaceX, Relativity Space, Momentus, Astra, Impossible Aerospace, and Nuro.