Get to Know Climeworks
Climeworks is a leading high-quality carbon removal provider, merging decades of expertise in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology with a comprehensive approach to carbon removal solutions.
We advise companies on their carbon removal strategies and offer tailored portfolios comprising both nature-based and engineered approaches, delivering end-to-end services to help achieve net-zero goals. Our company operates the world's first two DAC plants in Iceland, which showcases our commitment to high-quality carbon removal, supported by over 15 years of pioneering research, development, and deployment.
By advancing the most reliable solutions in the market, Climeworks is accelerating the global transition to net-zero, creating economic value for businesses, governments, and society.
We foster a dynamic environment and are building a globally purpose-driven team. We seek disruptive thinkers, passionate achievers, and inspiring leaders ready to tackle the world’s greatest challenge.
Will you join us?
Your Mission
Job Description
- Collector Concepts Development: As part of the Concepts & Innovation team, you will invent, design, and develop new CO₂ collector system architectures that integrate sorbent and process requirements into practical, manufacturable equipment.
- Prototyping: You will prototype and test your concepts and sub-systems, taking a hands-on approach from early proof of concept to final acceptance testing. Your role will involve designing and executing experiments to validate concepts, troubleshoot issues, and optimize designs.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborating closely with our in-house sorbent and process experts, as well as system engineers, you will align material and process properties with mechanical implementation. Developing a deep understanding of sorbent and process performance will enable you to invent new ways of integrating them into collectors. You will contribute to the scale-up from lab to pilot to industrial scale, balancing performance, reliability, and CAPEX, while working with the Industrialisation team on detailed engineering, manufacturing, compliance, and scaling.
- Stakeholder & Project Management: You will document designs, learnings, and failures to enhance the team’s innovation cycle.
- Intellectual Property: Keeping a close eye on the industry state of the art, you will actively contribute to generating new intellectual property.
- Engineering: You will contribute to the scale-up of collectors from lab to pilot to industrial scale, ensuring a balance of performance, reliability, and CAPEX, while collaborating with the Industrialisation team on detailed engineering, manufacturing, compliance, and scaling.
- Stakeholder & Project Management: You will drive efficient collaboration within the team and across functions, managing both technical and non-technical risks while setting clear priorities.
Your Story
Requirements
- Education & Engineering Expertise: A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, or a related field is required; an advanced degree is preferred. You should have at least 7 years of experience in equipment development, ideally with systems involving steam, vacuum, and thermal management, along with strong expertise in industrial equipment design, prototyping, and testing.
- Approach to Innovation: Hands-on experience in building and validating lab-scale or pilot-scale hardware is essential. A proven track record of innovation and rapid prototyping, demonstrating the ability to creatively solve engineering challenges under uncertainty, is desired.
- Technical Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of detail design, design-for-manufacture, industrialization, and scaling hardware concepts from lab to industrial applications is expected. Proficiency in CAD software (preferably SolidWorks) for designing parts and systems is essential. Familiarity with sorbents, adsorption/desorption processes, or thermal separation technologies is a plus.
- Communication & Teamwork: You should be comfortable working in multidisciplinary teams, bridging material science, process engineering, mechanical design, and industrialization. Strong communication skills, along with an entrepreneurial mindset and a fail-fast, learn-fast approach, are critical.
What We Offer
- Time Off: Enjoy 25 paid vacation days every year, plus public holidays.
- Flexibility: Work in a way that suits you best with a hybrid work setup and up to 4 weeks of remote work annually within any EU country.
- Ownership: A competitive base salary coupled with an equity package – because your contributions matter.
- Family Support: Inclusive parental leave.
- Continuous Learning: A dedicated budget to invest in your professional growth.
- Referral Rewards: Help us grow our team and earn bonuses for your successful referrals.
Apply Online
To express your interest in this position, apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.
Formalities
- This position is based in Zurich, and we ask that you work onsite at least three days per week.
- The percentage in the job title denotes flexibility – choose full-time or part-time based on what works for you.
- We do not accept candidate profiles through recruitment agencies.