Radically reducing capital costs and build time for direct air capture
About Noya :
Noya is reversing climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. We’re a scrappy team of engineers, scientists, and operators taking on the biggest problem anybody could be working on. We’ve developed a process that leverages abundant materials to remove CO2 directly from the air with dramatically lower capital and operating expenses than other approaches.
About the Role:
As a Mechanical Engineer at Noya you will be critical to helping us scale our process to remove enough CO2 to make a serious dent in humanity’s carbon footprint. You will be responsible for designing, manufacturing, testing, and commissioning cutting-edge CO2 capture machines and components for current and future CO2 capture programs. You will take these ideas from prototype all the way through to implementation. We are looking for a self-motivated individual with the experience and drive to make Noya’s mission to reverse climate change a reality.
Responsibilities:
Design mechanical components for an industrial-scale carbon capture process
Characterize and design CO2 capture equipment by building prototypes, running simulations, and leveraging off-the-shelf components
Perform mechanical and failure mode analyses and design test methods to characterize and drive down risks on new CO2 capture technology
Spend time on the laboratories, shop floor, and remote CO2 capture facilities when technology is being installed and tested - we all get our hands dirty at Noya!
Implement new technologies and processes in CO2 capture facilities
Lead interdisciplinary teams through root cause analysis to resolve unexpected outcomes during development, implementation, or production
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to ensure hardware integrates with electrical, chemical, and controls subsystems
Required Experience:
5+ years of mechanical engineering experience
Experience guiding industrial equipment and components from prototype through production
Experience building prototypes, iterating rapidly, and advancing design concepts to production
Ninja-level CAD skills; Solidworks preferred
Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for prototyping and getting your hands dirty, and a desire to optimize CO2 capture machines
Experience working with external vendors to move parts to production
Bonus Experience:
Expertise in computational methods like Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Experience with high-temperature and pressure systems
Experience scaling with volume production of industrial equipment
Experience with large scale industrial process systems (ie. P&IDs, compressors, pumps, piping)
Experience with with sealing mechanisms and polymeric seal development and testing
Strong oral and written communication skills
General Information:
Job title: Mechanical Engineer
Team: Mechanical Engineering
Location: Oakland, CA
Compensation: $115,000-$170,000
Benefits You Can Expect :
Blue Shield and Kaiser medical plans, plus 100% employer-sponsored dental, vision, life and LTD coverage
Generous stock option compensation
401(k) with company match
PTO including 13 paid holidays throughout the year
Healthy snacks and lunch from local restaurants
Paid parental leave
Supportive commuter benefits
Amazing workplace to build first-of-a-kind Direct Air Capture technology, close to West Oakland coffee shops and restaurants
The opportunity to work towards an impactful mission in the climate space
_Noya is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, thought, and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic. Women, people of color, and people from underrepresented communities are strongly encouraged to apply. _
Noya is on a mission to accelerate the world's transition to carbon negativity. We're doing this by radically reducing the upfront capital costs and installation time required to perform direct air capture. In our approach, we're retrofitting existing pieces of industrial equipment like cooling towers and turning them into CO2 capture machines. The United States is currently home to over 2 million cooling towers, and we estimate they collectively have the ability to capture over 7 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year.
We've got an incredible lineup of early partners who in commercial real estate who collectively own hundreds of cooling towers, and we have signed carbon removal offtake agreements with leading purchasers. We're quickly charging towards the first commercial pilot of our current carbon capture technology, and we're looking for curious, driven engineers, scientists, and operators to join our team.