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Senior Development Engineer

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Climeworks

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Location:
Switzerland, Opfikon, Zurich

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Category:
Research and Development

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Contract Type:
Not provided

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Salary:

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Job Description:

Senior Development Engineer role at Climeworks, a leading carbon removal provider. The mission involves developing new CO₂ collector system architectures, prototyping, cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to scale-up from lab to industrial scale.

Job Responsibility:

  • Collector Concepts Development: invent, design, and develop new CO₂ collector system architectures
  • Prototyping: prototype and test concepts and sub-systems, design and execute experiments to validate concepts, troubleshoot issues, and optimize designs
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: work closely with in-house sorbent and process experts and system engineers
  • contribute to scale-up from lab to pilot to industrial scale
  • collaborate with Industrialisation team on detailed engineering, manufacturing, compliance, and scaling
  • Stakeholder & Project Management: document designs, learnings, and failures
  • drive efficient collaboration within the team and across functions
  • manage technical and non-technical risks
  • set clear priorities
  • Intellectual Property: keep a close eye on the industry state of the art and actively contribute to generating new intellectual property
  • Engineering: contribute to the scale-up of collectors from lab to pilot to industrial scale, balancing performance, reliability, and CAPEX

Requirements:

  • Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, or a related field
  • advanced degree preferred
  • At least 7 years of experience in equipment development, ideally with systems involving steam, vacuum, and thermal management
  • Strong expertise in industrial equipment design, prototyping, and testing
  • Hands-on experience in building and validating lab-scale or pilot-scale hardware
  • Proven track record of innovation and rapid prototyping, with the ability to creatively solve engineering challenges under uncertainty
  • In-depth knowledge of detail design, design-for-manufacture, industrialisation, and scaling hardware concepts from lab to industrial applications
  • Proficiency in CAD software (preferably SolidWorks) for designing parts and systems
  • Familiarity with sorbents, adsorption/desorption processes, or thermal separation technologies is considered a plus
  • Comfortable working in multidisciplinary teams, bridging material science, process engineering, mechanical design, and industrialisation
  • Strong communication skills with an entrepreneurial mindset and a fail-fast, learn-fast approach

Nice to have:

Familiarity with sorbents, adsorption/desorption processes, or thermal separation technologies

What we offer:
  • 25 paid vacation days every year, plus public holidays
  • hybrid work setup and up to 4 weeks of remote work annually within any EU country
  • Fair base pay paired with an equity package
  • Inclusive parental leave
  • Dedicated budget to invest in your professional growth
  • Referral Rewards: earn bonuses for your successful referrals

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 07, 2025

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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