Senior Development Engineer / Senior Development Engineeress

CLIMEWORKS AG - March 6, 2026

Your Mission

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. You will design and execute experiments to validate concepts, troubleshoot issues, and optimize designs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: You will work closely with our in-house sorbent and process experts, as well as system engineers, to align material and process properties with mechanical implementation. By developing a deep understanding of sorbent and process performance, you will invent new ways of implementing them into collectors. You will contribute to the scale-up from lab to pilot to industrial scale, balancing performance, reliability, and CAPEX. Furthermore, you will collaborate with the Industrialization team on detailed engineering, manufacturing, compliance, and scaling, creating a strong feedback loop that ensures innovative concepts evolve into robust, market-ready equipment.

Stakeholder & Project Management: You will keep stakeholders aligned by documenting designs, insights, and lessons learned, ensuring transparency and continuity throughout the project lifecycle.

Intellectual Property: You will keep a close eye on the industry's state of the art and actively contribute to generating new intellectual property.

Your Story

Requirements

  • Education & Engineering Expertise: You hold a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred. You have at least 5 years of experience in equipment development, ideally with systems involving steam, vacuum, and thermal management. Strong expertise in industrial equipment design, prototyping, and testing is essential.
  • Approach to Innovation: You have hands-on experience in building and validating lab-scale or pilot-scale hardware. You have a proven track record of innovation and rapid prototyping, with the ability to creatively solve engineering challenges under uncertainty.
  • Technical Knowledge: You possess in-depth knowledge of detail design, design-for-manufacture, industrialization, and scaling hardware concepts from lab to industrial applications. Proficiency in CAD software (preferably SolidWorks) for designing parts and systems is required. Familiarity with process industry, sorbents, adsorption/desorption processes, or thermal separation technologies is considered a plus.
  • Mindsent & Working Style: You are comfortable working in multidisciplinary teams, bridging material science, process engineering, mechanical design, and industrialization. You possess strong communication skills combined with an entrepreneurial mindset and a fail-fast, learn-fast approach.
  • Language: You are proficient in English, both spoken and written.

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Location : Glattpark (Opfikon)
Country : Switzerland

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