At Aircapture we’re creating technology to solve what we believe to be our lifetime’s most pressing challenge: the climate crisis. We supply commercial and industrial customers with clean CO2 captured from our atmosphere to radically improve the environment, our economy, and our lives. We value building a team of people who represent diverse backgrounds–be it through education, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation–to reach our goals. Thank you for considering us.
Design the technology of our lifetime as a Senior Microwave Engineer at Aircapture! You will use your extensive expertise in microwave technology to advance a cutting edge approach to Direct Air Capture “DAC.” If you live to solve technical challenges and love creating innovative solutions, digging deep into the problem and discovering by doing and, if you are excited to have a major impact at a groundbreaking climate technology startup, this role is for you!
This role is onsite at our development and production facility in Berkeley, California.
Please Note–due to the requirements of our federal contracts, we can only hire a U.S. Citizen or green card holder for this role.
Salary: $155,000-180,000 per year
What You’ll Do Here
- Innovate and solve technical challenges, leveraging your deep expertise in microwave, electrical and mechanical systems to research and develop first-of-a-kind microwave Direct Air Capture (MWDAC) technology
- Work directly with high voltage and high power microwave systems from 900 MHz to 3000MHz with power ranges from 10kW to 100kW
- Optimize MWDAC cavity and waveguide designs through simulations and modeling to then build experimental test rigs and prototypes that advance R&D efforts
- Develop detailed test plans, execute experiments, and refine designs based on analysis of experimental data
- Own your projects, allocate resources effectively, and acquire the tools and equipment you need
- Collaborate closely with the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering teams to drive the technology toward commercialization
- Partner with an awesome team of motivated, fun, smart humans who are excited to be here and do this important work
Your Skills and Abilities Include
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical engineering, Physics, or a related field, with a focus on Microwave technology. Master’s or PhD degree preferred, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience in R&D roles involving system design and hands-on experimental work, data collection and analysis, and subsequent design iteration
- Deep expertise in RF and microwave engineering, including s-parameters, material permittivity, impedance matching, chamber modeling, multimode and single mode, and fluid dynamics knowledge
- Expert proficiency with industry standard RF/microwave modelling software (ex: COMSOL, ANSYS HFSS). Proficiency with SolidWorks preferred
- Outstanding collaborative abilities: You love working side by side with a team of creative engineers
Aircapture strives to create a safe, inclusive, equitable and diverse workplace. Every teammate adds to who we are, diversifying our ideas, experiences and viewpoints and makes us stronger. We hope you feel welcome here.
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What We Do
Aircapture’s modular, on-site technology captures climate-changing CO2 from the air, and puts it directly into our customers' production processes. The result is a greener, cleaner and cheaper product that can help their businesses go carbon neutral, or even negative.
Previously, commercially available CO2 was produced and distributed only in ways that generate large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, result in product impurities and include the often-substantial friction costs from transportation.
For every tonne of delivered CO2, we estimate two or more tonnes of CO2 are emitted into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and creating significant supply chain emissions, the cost of which are likely to materially increase.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone is not enough to avoid catastrophic climate change. Atmospheric carbon dioxide removal addresses legacy emissions and drives the development of critical, sustainable carbon-negative infrastructure.
By utilizing atmospheric CO2, we can actually turn back the hands of time – reversing much of the damage that has already been done – while enabling our customers to economically build new carbon-to-value industries and alleviate energy poverty on a global scale.
Our mission is to use Direct Air Capture (DAC) to help achieve these goals. DAC can be sited practically anywhere. There are no natural or technical limits to its scale, the quantity of carbon dioxide it removes is verifiable and it is cost-effective today
