About the role
Summary:
Our goal is to hire a self-sufficient team member who can identify questions related to scaleup and process development, and answer them using experimental methods. We’re seeking someone with strong hands-on experience to run larger experimental campaigns related to scaleup and design validation so insights can be fed into ongoing pilot deployment efforts. Derek to serve as mentor, although we’d likely have the new hire assist on a variety of projects with the rest of the engineering team. Ideally the learnings from this work would feed into Bart & Cyndia’s work with integration & deployment, which will subsequently reduce their workloads related to guesswork.
Possible flavor of projects
- Design & run experiments across a variety of system sizes to help scale processes, and identify/understand loss of performance at scale (Primary)
- Develop and implement a robust sensing, electrical and/or code infrastructure for R&D platforms, and manage ongoing collection and display of process data (Secondary)
Title: R&D Engineer (Scaleup)
To meet emissions reductions targets set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world will need carbon removal technologies to supplement the efforts of clean energy deployment and traditional carbon capture strategies, which only slow the extent to which CO2 is being emitted.
AirMyne is a seed-stage Direct Air Capture (DAC) startup aiming to develop the most readily scalable and cost-competitive DAC process. By employing widely available existing industrial technologies and equipment, and by creating an energy-flexible process, we hope to overcome barriers to scale such as material supply chains, cost and availability of clean energy, and plant capacity factors. AirMyne was founded in 2022 by industry veterans with experience designing and scaling chemical products in the refrigeration and electric vehicle industries. We’re based in Berkeley and have a team of 14 spanning Commercial, Deployment and Engineering. AirMyne has spent the past three years refining the unit operations related to our absorption and thermal regeneration process. We recently received a grant from the California Energy Commission to fund a pilot-scale deployment and are rapidly working to translate our learnings to an outdoor demonstration in the field.
