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Carbon Removal Hardware Lead

Climate People

Carbon Removal Hardware Lead

San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    The Company

    We have partnered with an exciting early-stage and well-funded startup in the SF Bay area building a new form of low-cost direct air carbon capture. We are currently recruiting for a Lead Hardware Engineer.

    This novel carbon removal system requires a unique blend of geology, chemistry, industrial engineering, and process engineering - doesn’t yet exist at the scales necessary to make a difference, so they need to build it themselves.

    The Role:

    We are looking for dedicated and driven hardware scientists and engineers to help us design and build systems that capture CO2 directly from the air and enable us to process it into a variety of products (carbon credits, carbon negative materials, etc).

    You will design and build the hardware, software, and infrastructure to capture and measure the CO2 we capture from the air we breathe. While our laboratory results demonstrate the general concept, we must scale from lab bench to industrial scales. You will help shape and drive exploratory research and development phases to evaluate and test new ideas and setups. You revel in both complexity and uncertainty and delight in breaking down and translating huge problems into actionable and testable systems requirements. As we scale, you will help us design and build the infrastructure necessary to operate at the industrial levels necessary to effect global change on our CO2 footprint. Your work has the potential to directly shape our fight against climate change.

    • Design, build, and test novel air-contactor systems to capture CO2. This includes design of the mechanical system, the humidity/temperature systems, the measurement systems, and all of the control electronics and software to tie it together
    • Discover, Test, and Evaluate the optimum parameter space of capturing CO2 - not just in the lab but at industrial scales where costs become a dominant factor. This will include comprehensive test campaigns running simultaneously over extended periods of time and detailed documentation of results
    • Develop the roadmap to achieving scale - figuring out how to scale from grams to kilos to gigatons of CO2.

    About you:

    • Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering (such as Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Civil, or Geo), Applied Science (Geology, Chemistry, Physics, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
    • 5+ years of relevant work experience in an applied field with expertise in handling mechanical and control systems from the ground up
    • Experience with complex systems engineering challenges

    Bonus Points:

    • Knowledge of chemistry/geochemistry/physics, particularly with an advanced degree
    • Proven track record architecting R&D hardware solutions and bringing them to industrial scale
    • Lab and/or field experience
    • Experience with systems engineering requirement capture and test
    • Experience with rudimentary control software (such as python and/or C) & mechanical packages (e.g., Solidworks or similar)