Chemical Engineer, Reaction and Process Development

About the position

Ammobia is seeking a motivated and creative Chemical Engineer to develop, and optimize, and scale up our ammonia production process. You will work on a broad variety of projects including but not limited to lab scale reaction engineering, plant scale process design, pilot plant development, and active materials manufacturing. There is significant opportunity to grow your role alongside the company.

Responsibilities

• Develop processes at the bench and pilot scales, through experimental and/or model/simulation-based development
• Perform test engineering at bench and pilot scales: specify, build, and operate equipment for chemical processing, materials manufacturing, and more
• Design, analyze, and optimize experiments and processes
• Optimize and develop composite active materials for catalysis and separation
• Integrate experimental and model learnings into plant design at increasing scales
• Characterize, manufacture, and scale up active materials for catalysis and gas separations

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience in a relevant industrial setting (5+ preferred)
• Demonstrated expertise in process development and experimental design
• Demonstrated ability to drive development programs based on insights from models and experiment
• Demonstrated expertise in data analysis, especially for time-series data from dynamic processes, e.g. with Python, MATLAB, or similar
• Intuitive understanding of thermodynamics, kinetics, heat and mass transport
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work both independently and collaboratively
• Passion for sustainability and excitement about working at an early-stage start-up
• Hands on experience in a startup

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated experience in reaction engineering, heterogeneous catalysis
• Hands on experience designing, building, and maintain research and pilot scale chemical processing equipment
• Demonstrated experience in reactor and/or process modeling, eg in Aspen, gPROMS, MATLAB, COMSOL, or similar
• Demonstrated experience in porous materials characterization, such as BET, SEM, TGA etc
• Experience in gas separations, PSA, TSA, membrane, distillation, or similar
• Experience in pilot scale chemical processing
• Experience in ammonia synthesis, cracking, or separations
• Experience in porous material synthesis and manufacturing

Benefits

• Competitive equity grants
• Healthcare, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k
• Gym benefit
• Regular team social events
• Paid time off, including closure between Christmas and New Years