Our mission is to stabilize Earth’s climate by transforming nature’s most powerful permanent carbon removal process into a global climate solution. By advancing science, building technology, and assembling a global coalition, we are catalyzing an international initiative to scale Enhanced Rock Weathering within the next decade, starting in Brazil.
Founded out of the Stanford University ecosystem, Terradot is led by the world’s leading experts to advance the science and technology of ERW. Our unique structure bridges industry, academia, and government and allows our team to contribute with speed & scale. We have raised $58.2M in total funding from John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco and Venture Funds, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital, Ponderosa Ventures, and others. We have sold ~300,000 tons in offtakes from leading CDR buyers like Frontier and Google.
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About the role
We are seeking an Engineer Manager/Technical Lead to our São Paulo engineering team. In this role, you will combat climate change by building and enhancing Terradot’s software platform for Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW). You’ll partner with scientific, engineering, operational, and commercial teams to translate user needs into intuitive solutions that drive operational excellence and long-term company growth. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role with significant ownership and the opportunity to shape a platform that will enable Terradot to scale ERW deployments, drawing down significant amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and making a substantial impact on climate change.
What you'll do
- Ensure stellar execution and operational excellence.
- Collaborate closely with US-based Product and Engineering leads to build web and mobile software that manages the end-to-end project development workflow at Terradot.
- Immerse yourself in the operational realities of ERW project execution and operations. Partner with the Operations division to create pragmatic, user-centered solutions that bridge the physical/digital divide and accelerate Terradot’s ability to scale.
- Shape a culture of sustainable, empathetic, and high-velocity engineering, with a deep focus on cross-team collaboration, documentation, and data-driven decision-making.
- Work hands-on to build features across the mobile and web stack
- Coach and mentor engineers at different levels to maximize their impact and achieve their career goals.
What we are looking for
- An undergraduate degree in CS or a related field
- 8+ years of engineering with 2+ years of engineering management or lead experience
- Solid English skills, both written and verbal.
- Hands-on experience in building delightful web products, full-stack from frontend, APIs, to Postgres backend.
- Experience directly interacting with customers and using technology to solve real-world operational problems.
- Experience in recruiting, organizing, and motivating teams; helping people grow in their careers; and managing people.
- Full-stack engineering expertise in React, React Native, Python, SQL. GCP is highly desirable, though another large cloud environment (AWS, Azure, etc.) is a good substitute.
- Desire to learn the intricacies of the science behind Enhanced Rock Weathering and Carbon Credit Accounting.
Personal Attributes:
- Strategic thinker who can balance short-term needs with long-term vision.
- Highly collaborative team player, with strong leadership skills and a hands-on approach to problem-solving
- Deep user empathy and the ability to seamlessly navigate and mediate interactions across a wide range of stakeholder backgrounds.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- A positive, action-oriented stance with a focus on outcomes.
- An owner-mindset, someone who is passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about the success of the product.
- Strong communication skills, ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Learning agility, the ability to pick up new concepts quickly.
Nice to have:
- Experience scaling startup environments
- Background in Data Engineering
- Demonstrated passion for streamlining and scaling complex operational workflows.
- Any background in taking action to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
- Background interaction with "real world" fields like science, operations, large-scale project development, etc
Skills Required
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 8+ years of engineering experience
- 2+ years of engineering management or technical lead experience
- Solid written and verbal English skills
- Hands-on experience building full-stack web products, including frontend, APIs, and PostgreSQL backends
- Experience directly interacting with customers and solving real-world operational problems using technology
- Experience recruiting, organizing, motivating, developing, and managing engineering teams
- Full-stack expertise in React, React Native, Python, and SQL
- Experience with GCP or another major cloud environment such as AWS or Azure
- Desire to learn Enhanced Rock Weathering science and Carbon Credit Accounting
- Experience in a scaling startup environment
- Background in data engineering
- Experience streamlining and scaling complex operational workflows
- Background mitigating climate change impacts
- Experience with science, operations, or large-scale project development environments
What We Do
Over millions of years, silicate rock weathering has regulated Earth’s climate. By crushing silicate rocks and spreading them on agricultural soils - an approach called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) - we can accelerate Earth’s natural process into a solution capable of addressing the urgency of climate change. Existing agricultural and silicate rock sites - namely 5,000+ global silicate rock quarries surrounded by agricultural land - have the potential to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 with enhanced rock weathering. Despite this potential, ERW hasn’t scaled given the extraordinary scientific, technological, and operational challenges involved. Terradot, founded out of the Stanford ecosystem, is addressing these challenges by advancing the science, building the technology, and assembling the coalition needed to make this potential a reality. We’ve started in Brazil – one of the world’s most optimal locations for ERW thanks to its tropical soils, strength in agriculture, and clean electricity grid. There, we are building the most ambitious ERW hub to date. This hub will drive the necessary breakthroughs in ERW science, ensuring every tonne of carbon dioxide removed is measured and tracked with certainty. These insights will power digital tools for the optimization and verification of carbon removal projects, enabling the replicability of these hubs globally If successful, this approach will uniquely and rapidly catalyze global-scale carbon removal, enabling the transformation of [300] such quarries in Brazil and [5,000+] global quarries into carbon removal hubs. Terradot has assembled a growing team of leading scientists and engineers with decades of published research (over 100,000 citations on ERW) and hands-on expertise in related fields, providing unmatched experience to drive advancements in ERW.
