Join Rivan Industries, a breakthrough synthetic fuel company backed by the founders of Stripe and Plural, to design the power systems that will replace fossil fuels. As a Senior Power System Engineer, you'll lead the electrical design of 1MW solar arrays and modular fuel plants, taking ownership of the DC architecture that turns sunlight into carbon neutral natural gas. Based in a massive 10,000 sq ft London facility, you’ll work alongside world class engineers from Oxford and Imperial to scale a technology that has already delivered the UK's largest plant of its kind. If you're a hands on engineer ready to build at a 1000x scale, this is your mission.
Rivan Industries designs, manufactures, and deploys modular synthetic fuel plants. Their mission is to make life sustainable on earth by making it cheaper to pull fuels from the air than drill from the ground.
Rivan's technology captures CO2 directly from the atmosphere using a Direct Air Capture (DAC) system, splits water via an alkaline electrolyser to produce hydrogen, and synthesizes these together in a Sabatier reactor to produce synthetic natural gas — injected directly into the European gas grid. All of this is powered by off-grid solar that Rivan develops and deploys themselves, giving them access to the cheapest energy source in the world.
This isn't a carbon credit play — it's a pure economics company. Rivan is building foundational technology for an entirely new industry, aiming to produce synthetic fuels cheaper than fossil alternatives. They've deployed the UK's largest synthetic fuel plant and are planning to 1000x this scale in the next two years, with planning permission for what will be Europe's largest synthetic fuel plant.
Culture: Rivan is a fast-paced, engineering-first company where speed, ownership, and creativity are paramount. They run extremely lean on non-engineering functions (~90% of the team is engineering), and everyone — even the most senior people — remains hands-on as individual contributors. People have joined at mid-level and been promoted twice within months simply because they demonstrated the capacity to own entire subsystems. There's complete creative freedom, a flat structure under a solo founder, and the expectation that early team members will own entire departments and shape the future of the company.
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Senior Embedded Systems Engineer (£80-100k + Equity) at Rivan Industries - Synthetic Fuel Startup
Salary
£100,000 - £100,000
Location
London, GB
Total raised
$46M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
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A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
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