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 shape the data foundation that runs our technology by owning the pipelines, models, and analyses that turn operational data from our Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems into the insights that our engineers and scientists rely upon. Partnering with our test and engineering teams, you’ll turn the continuous stream of sensor, process, and test data from the physical equipment in the field and shop into actionable decisions. You have built and run production data systems in a hardware or physical product environment, and are comfortable with the realities of real-world sensor data, making durable architectural choices that hold up over time. If this sounds like you and you are excited to have a major impact at a groundbreaking climate technology startup, we want to hear from you!
This role is onsite at our development and production facility in Berkeley, California.
Salary: $180,000-$220,000 per year
Please include a cover letter with your application–describe why you are interested in this role and Aircapture using your own words (not AI).
What You’ll Do Here
- Own and evolve Aircapture’s end-to-end data platform, using both Ignition and AWS
- Set technical direction for the data stack, evaluating tools, defining standards, and making durable architectural decisions
- Standardize and enforce engineering workflows across the data stack, such as version control, code review, CI/CD, testing, and documentation
- Maintain and support on-prem server systems as part of the data infrastructure
- Partner closely with controls engineering on Ignition rollout
- Partner with test engineering to build the pipeline that moves test and operational telemetry, including sensor, DAQ, and historian data, into the dashboards and reports engineering relies on
Your Skills and Experience Include
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on industry experience, Master’s preferred
- 6+ years building and operating production data systems that are mission critical to a hardware or physical product, gained in an industry such as automotive, aerospace, robotics, industrial equipment, energy, or semiconductor manufacturing. Hands-on hardware/physical-product experience required
- Solid experience with AWS and services such as RDS, IAM, VPC, S3
- Strong SQL and Python expertise combined with solid engineering fundamentals across Git, CI/CD, and production workflows
- Thorough background in dbt across the full model lifecycle, plus orchestration tools like Airflow and Docker for production deployment
- Hands-on experience with industrial historian or DAQ platforms such as Ignition, ibaPDA, Keysight, National Instruments, or similar, as well as fluency working with time-series and sensor data
- Working physical intuition for the systems generating your data — thermal, fluid, electrical, or mechanical — sufficient to sanity-check sensor readings, spot anomalies, and communicate credibly with test and controls engineers
- Strong analytical orientation toward data interpretation, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adjust architectural decisions accordingly
- Effective cross-functional collaborator and communicator; able to translate ambiguity into scoped work and push back when needed
- Self-directed, resourceful, and highly ownership-oriented from scoping through delivery
- Bonus: BI tooling experience, climate/energy domain background, or prior experience partnering directly with a test or reliability engineering function
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 Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field, or equivalent hands-on industry experience
- 6+ years building and operating production data systems
- Solid experience with AWS and services such as RDS, IAM, VPC, S3
- Strong SQL and Python expertise
- Thorough background in dbt and orchestration tools like Airflow and Docker
- Effective cross-functional collaborator and communicator
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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