Carbo Culture is a climate technology company on a mission to reverse climate change by drawing down atmospheric carbon. We are headquartered in Helsinki with a subsidiary and R&D operations in Central California. This role is onsite in Escalon, California, but we offer some flexibility of working days/hours for the right candidate.
Our focus is on building carbon removal technology to a scale where we can effectively help mitigate climate change. Our current facility in California is operational however there is still much work to be done to maximize its throughput and operational capacity.
This role will be a key hire to move our technology forward and advance carbon removal in the real world. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, testing, and improving all mechanical hardware on our R&D system and future scale-ups. You will work closely with our thermochemical R&D engineer on-site and report directly to the CTO. Together you will be the core of our R&D operations. You will also work closely with our future VP of Engineering who will take your insights and use them to plan future facilities and identify R&D priorities that relate to future commercial operations including reactor design, material handling, and energy recovery.
Requirements
- Deep and hands-on expertise in designing, testing, and implementing novel industrial process equipment
- Direct experience scaling process equipment from Bench to Pilot Scale, and preferably beyond
- Direct experience with process automation and controls
- Fluency in mechanical design and modeling (Fusion, AutoCAD etc)
- Proficiency and experience in Design of Experiments and Failure Analysis
- Highly structured and organized - this role will be responsible for all technical documentation, equipment maintenance and safety during operation
- Grit and perseverance, ability to find structure in the noise
- 10+ years of experience of Mechanical Engineering, preferably focused on process equipment design and implementation
Bonus Qualifications
- Direct experience with thermochemical process design and implementation
- Direct experience with relevant solids handling (Biomass, mining etc)
- Direct experience with pyrolysis, combustion, or gasification
You might work well with us if the below sounds fun
- Our team is courageous and resolved, we’re working on climate tech to solve global challenges
- We are in an early stage of our journey with a scrappy, hands-on and resilient outlook on life and company building
- There will be tough days, and a high intrinsic motivation, capacity to learn quickly and ability to give and take good feedback help rolling with the occasional punches
- We’re building a partly distributed team, and remote work and time zone adjustments are part of our way of working.
- Startups can be challenging. We hope that you’ve figured out how you like to work, what your signature strengths are and what kind of a setting you excel in, and how you can live your values in an organization
Note: candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S., unfortunately we cannot sponsor work visas right now.
Benefits
We are offering the opportunity to work on the world's biggest problem. You will get to work on the emerging, dynamic field of climate tech, in a company with global ambitions.
We offer health/dental/vision benefits, as well as participation in the Employee Stock Option Plan
We may not be able to respond to each candidate individually due to high number of applicants.
