Senior Process Engineer

We are an early startup with a big vision - capture 0.5GT of global CO2 emissions from the air by 2035 through biotechnology, roughly the same weight as all humans on earth combined!

To meet our climate targets the reduction of CO2 emissions is not enough, the world actively has to capture billions of tons of CO2 from our atmosphere. To achieve that we at Ucaneo develop the world’s first biomimetic Direct Air Capture technology to remove CO2 from ambient air.

We are a science and mission-driven team, fast-moving with a break-or-make attitude. Our lab is at Campus Buch Berlin, one of the biggest biotech parks in Germany. Our office is located in the heart of Berlin, at Torstraße 110.

Starting Date: 1st July 2023

Tasks

Your mission: Connecting our hardware to the cloud to monitor process performance and enable an exponential data-driven learning curve.

Responsibilities

We're seeking a skilled Senior Chemical Process Engineer to join our Berlin-based startup, focusing on process simulation and equipment choice at industrial scale. Operating in an agile environment, you'll lead the process design of our Direct Air Capture technology, aiming for scalable commercial manufacturing. This involves creating P&IDs, calculating thermodynamic processes for our TEA, and exploring methods to improve process models, focusing on gas-liquid interface reactions and electrochemical separation processes in close interaction with our technical lead positions in Hardware Engineering, IoT & Chemical Process with focus on electrochemistry and supporting our process engineer and testing engineer with their work.

Key Points

• Take responsibility for the process design of our novel Direct Air Capture process
• Identify and develop a process that will be converted into a product that can be manufactured at commercial scale
• Creating P&IDs with AutoCAD and aligning equipment choices with hardware engineering, IoT and Chemical Process team.
• Calculating thermodynamic processes, energy requirements, and mass & flow balances which feed directly into our TEA with Aspen/Hysis
• Compare different methods for individual process steps, conduct equipment sizing and/or numerical simulations to obtain maximum flow velocities etc.
• Consider thermodynamics and kinetics to improve process models and digital twin or our industrial unit with COMSOL or pyhton
• Focus on gas-liquid interface reactions and electrochemical separation process
• Identify and mitigate durability risks of Bipolar Membranes industrial performance

Requirements

Skills and experience

• University’s degree in Process Engineering, CFD Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience (>5 years) in simulation of chemical processes and equipment improvement
• Experience in design, construction and/or operation of lab prototypes and pilot plants for R&D or industrial plants in related sectors to gas processing and liquefaction plants, air separation units, Direct Air Capture etc.
• Experience with tools for process simulation, such as COMSOL, AutoCAD, Aspen HYSYS or Ansys
• Ideally worked in water treatment, battery design/production or industries with gas-liquid interfaces combined with startup experience

Workstyle and culture

• Fast learning and quick to grasp complex topics
• A team player with a hands-on mentality
• Authentic and reflective self
• self-Organizer and structures workstyle to keep focus and get things done
• Good listener and effective communicator in cross-sectional team
• Curious and open-minded

Other

• Valid Work Permit for Germany, or able to obtain a permit
• Location: Exiting industrial Co-Working Space in Mazahn where we have our own industrial halls to build

Benefits

• Impact: You will work on the biggest problem of our time, climate change, with the potential to impact the lives of billions of people
• Day to day: Full responsibility to design your own workstream and control your working hours with a very high degree of freedom, flat hierarchy and teamwork
• Professional growth: Join a disruptive high-growth tech startup from day 1 and grow / lead a high-performing team

Perks

• Employee stock options
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working
• Regular team events
• Subsidized BVG ticket
• Laptop and your individual work set-up

Starting Date: 1st July 2023

If you are a strategic leader with a strong background in hardware engineering, passionate about driving innovation, and have a proven track record of team transformation, we invite you to join our dynamic organization and lead our hardware department to new heights.

While we appreciate all applicants, only those chosen for an interview will be contacted by our team.