Senior Mechanical Engineer, Heirloom
High Volume
$140-170k
Offers Equity
Office located in Brisbane, CA
Direct air carbon capture
Job no longer available
Direct air carbon capture
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$140-170k
Offers Equity
Office located in Brisbane, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To pull billions of tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere.
Role
Who you are
- Whether you’re working solo at a small start-up, or owning projects on a larger team, this much is clear: you will be an experienced (5+ years) Mechanical Design Engineer with a background in design for high-volume production of sheet metal and plastic parts
- You will bring creative solutions to design parts that are optimized for high reliability and low cost
- Having taken product(s) through the entire product lifecycle (EVT/DVT/PVT) process repeatedly has taught you to solve technically complex problems using mechanical fundamentals and data-driven methodologies
- You have experience with tools & methods like or similar to Finite Element Analysis (FEA), accelerated test methods & statistics, bolted joint analysis, root cause analysis (RCA), design of experiments (DOE), Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances (GD&T), and supplier Quality Control methods
- Ability to work in outdoor environments (example: hot sun, cold, wind, rain, crawl spaces, etc.). Stop work will be called when it is unsafe to work
- Position may require working at heights including; climbing ladders/equipment, stairs, elevators, and working on scissor lifts
- Capable of performing repetitive duties including; lifting up to 50 lbs., bending, pushing, pulling, and standing for long periods of time
- Experience using basic hand and power tools safely
What the job involves
- In this role, you will be joining the scaled systems mechanical design team and will be focused on architecting the next-generation carbonation equipment
- The carbonation equipment is part of Heirloom’s core technology and requires a low-cost, scalable, and reliable design to meet our goal of removing 1 billion tons of CO2 by 2035
- In this role, you will be expected to constantly challenge our assumptions and push the limits of design and manufacturing to achieve our ultimate targets
- As part of the team, you will independently lead the development of several large, modular, and yet lightweight assemblies of steel, plastic, and composite through their entire product lifecycle with cost and reliability as key drivers
- In addition to owning all technical aspects of your design (geometry, interfaces, material & plating selection, fastener selection), you will drive the end-to-end definition of your design, including requirement definition, risk, analysis, and system validation
- You will design parts for many distinct manufacturing processes including but not limited to sheet metal forming (stamping & press brake), injection molding, composite layups, casting, and thermoforming
- Working with suppliers and our supply chain team, you’ll provide in-depth design for manufacturing and assembly feedback required to ensure that our designs are cost-efficient, robust, and capable of high-quality results at scale
Our take
According to the UN, in order to avoid climate disaster the world needs to both reduce carbon emissions and actively remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. Heirloom develops a technology to handle the latter, using limestone to capture carbon directly from the air and permanently store it - and in doing so delivering high-quality carbon credits for businesses to purchase.
Initially, the company stored captured carbon in underground deposits, but it now also boasts the ability to sequester CO₂ into concrete. This process, which was developed alongside its partner, CarbonCure, actually strengthens the concrete, which can then be used in all types of construction projects.
Crucially, because limestone is so widely available - and because the capture process is a chemical reaction - the technology required relatively little land and energy. As a result, the company can operate with a comparatively low environmental footprint, increasing the value of the carbon removal credits it generates. That advantage helped secure a major agreement with Microsoft, which purchases 315,000metric tons of carbon removal from the company in one of the largest deals of its kind to date.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$150m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$53m
SERIES A
Total funding: $204m
Company HQ
Dogpatch, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shashank Samala
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded Tempo Automation, a robotics and software company that raised millions in funding from venture capitalists.
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