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. 

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 to recruit an Engineering Leader (Head of Engineering) and evangelist to help build our team, process, and technology. You and the team 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 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 and your team 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 our novel enhanced weathering methodology to capture CO2 at massive scale in the billions of tons. This team will include design of the mechanical systems, the humidity/temperature systems, the measurement systems, and all of the control electronics and software to tie it together.
• Hire, develop, and lead a world-class engineering team to be able to execute on our development plans, with an urgency rooted in the importance of our mission.
• Develop the roadmap to achieving scale - work with our R&D science team to figure 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.

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in an applied field with expertise in handling mechanical, controls, and/or industrial systems from the ground up
• 5+ years of experience managing successful high output teams
• Experience with complex systems engineering challenges
• Proven track record architecting R&D hardware solutions and bringing them to industrial scale