Rivan Industries (Rivan.com) is a synthetic fuel company designed to decarbonise heavy industry. We’ve developed a unique power-to-fuel machine built for low-capex deployment powered entirely by utility-scale solar. Here’s our entire business plan. We already have operating modules of our machine, we’re funded, and we’re now building out the team to bring the vision together and deploy at scale. 

We aim to make synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels and sustain life on earth by keeping the CO2 locked underground. We’re looking for a mechanical engineer to help us speed up development of our 3 core product modules – Alkaline electrolyser, Direct-air-capture, and chemical reactor. If you want to work on a high-impact technology that you’ll see the impact of in the world surrounded by smart people working with a sense of urgency and intensity – this is for you. For how that looks, here’s how we run the company. 

The role:

• Accelerate the testing of each of our 3 product modules
  • This will include both designing processes and building first versions of them in-house
• Simplify and increase efficiency of each design
• Design balance-of-plant operations in a closed-loop system 

Core skills:

• 3+ years professional experience
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field
• Chemical reactor, direct-air-capture or electrolyser design and build experience  

The things that are important to us for this role:

• Execution history. What have you built or designed before where you had the responsibility? ASPEN is easy, have you done this in the real world?
• Reasoning by first principles. Can you deconvolute complex scenarios into their foundational truths or parts?
• Urgency. We don’t have time to wait, are you comfortable with a high-degree of risk and pressure to move fast?
• Grit. How relentless will you be despite set-backs? We’re going up against some big opposition.

The things we don’t care about very much:

• Where you went to school / education
• Where you have worked previously

Specifics:

• £50-60K Salary depending on experience
• Significant share options as part of the early team
• In-person work at our HQ near to Victoria Park, East London
• Flexible time-off

Email CV and why you’re great for this role to harvey@rivan.com. Or, better yet, send your best design on how you’d think about and build an ultra-cheap chemical reactor that has systems that can heat to >300 degrees, cool everything down to <50 degrees, purge water out of a mixed gas stream between multiple reactors, operate entirely on solar power and be placed in-situ to work for 5+ years with little to no maintenance. The simpler, the better!