At Aircapture we’re creating technology to solve what we believe to be our lifetime’s most pressing challenge: the climate crisis. We supply commercial and industrial customers with clean CO₂ captured from our atmosphere to radically improve the environment, our economy, and our lives. We value building a team of people who represent diverse backgrounds—be it through education, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation—to reach our goals. Thank you for considering us.
You will lead the test and validation function that sits at the heart of Aircapture’s path from R&D to commercial technology. Owning system-level performance testing, you will define how we measure and understand our Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems, building a world-class quality and reliability capability. Performance understanding, repeatability, and reliability are not incidental concerns at Aircapture, they are central to how we learn, improve, and ultimately scale. If you are a hands-on technical leader who wants to build something lasting at a groundbreaking climate technology company, we want to hear from you.
This role is onsite at our development and production facility in Berkeley, California.
Salary: $190,000-205,000 per year
What You’ll Do Here
- Own and operate test labs, developing data and reporting standards across test platforms
- Lead and develop a high-performing test and reliability team, setting priorities, driving execution, and establishing best practices as Aircapture scales
- Drive system-level testing of FOAK DAC prototypes, including design envelope and full performance characterization
- Define and own system performance metrics, partnering cross-functionally as the authority on system performance and data interpretation
- Responsible for data pipeline for test and operational data, from instrumentation to historian and analysis
- Design and implement HALT/ALT testing of components and sub-systems
- Build Aircapture’s quality foundation including repeatability, FAT requirements, and scaling toward manufacturing
- Develop data-driven reliability models, including degradation, design-life validation, predictive maintenance inputs
- Translate test results into actionable feedback loops for design and operations
Your Skills and Experience Include
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related field, Master’s preferred
- 8+ years in test engineering, systems testing, or experimental R&D with end-to-end ownership of hardware test programs
- Experience managing and developing engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and driving performance in fast-paced, technical environments
- Strong physics-based understanding of thermofluid and electro-mechanical systems
- Proven ability to define meaningful performance metrics and build systems to measure them
- Strong instrumentation and Data Acquisition expertise, coupled with advanced analytical skills and ability to work closely with data engineering
- Background in quality/reliability systems, such as FAT, reliability testing, failure analysis, early-stage QMS
- Self-directed and decisive in ambiguous environments; full ownership from scoping through delivery
- Excellent cross-functional communicator; translates data into insight and pushes back when needed
- Bonus: industrial or energy hardware, scaling test/quality functions, reliability engineering or predictive maintenance
Aircapture strives to create a safe, inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace. Every teammate adds to who we are, diversifying our ideas, experiences, and viewpoints and making us stronger. We hope you feel welcome here.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related field, Master's preferred
- 8+ years in test engineering, systems testing, or experimental R&D with end-to-end ownership of hardware test programs
- Experience managing and developing engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and driving performance in fast-paced, technical environments
- Strong physics-based understanding of thermofluid and electro-mechanical systems
- Proven ability to define meaningful performance metrics and build systems to measure them
- Strong instrumentation and Data Acquisition expertise
- Background in quality/reliability systems, such as FAT, reliability testing, failure analysis, early-stage QMS
- Self-directed and decisive in ambiguous environments
- Excellent cross-functional communicator; translates data into insight
- Bonus: industrial or energy hardware, scaling test/quality functions, reliability engineering or predictive maintenance
What We Do
Aircapture’s modular, on-site technology captures climate-changing CO2 from the air, and puts it directly into our customers' production processes. The result is a greener, cleaner and cheaper product that can help their businesses go carbon neutral, or even negative. Previously, commercially available CO2 was produced and distributed only in ways that generate large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, result in product impurities and include the often-substantial friction costs from transportation. For every tonne of delivered CO2, we estimate two or more tonnes of CO2 are emitted into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and creating significant supply chain emissions, the cost of which are likely to materially increase. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone is not enough to avoid catastrophic climate change. Atmospheric carbon dioxide removal addresses legacy emissions and drives the development of critical, sustainable carbon-negative infrastructure. By utilizing atmospheric CO2, we can actually turn back the hands of time – reversing much of the damage that has already been done – while enabling our customers to economically build new carbon-to-value industries and alleviate energy poverty on a global scale. Our mission is to use Direct Air Capture (DAC) to help achieve these goals. DAC can be sited practically anywhere. There are no natural or technical limits to its scale, the quantity of carbon dioxide it removes is verifiable and it is cost-effective today
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