The Role
About Charm
Our mission is to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO₂. We convert excess inedible biomass into carbon-rich bio-oil and inject it into underground storage for permanent carbon removal. At scale, we can use bio-oil to make fossil-free iron.
Our carbon removal efforts began in 2020 with initial purchases from customers like Stripe, Shopify, and Microsoft. Since then, we’ve scaled to thousands of tons of carbon removal, grown to over a hundred employees, and established three locations in San Francisco, Colorado, and Louisiana.
We're expanding our team of ambitious, creative, and hands-on problem solvers. We value psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous learning. We take calculated risks and treat mistakes as opportunities to improve. If you're excited about tackling big challenges, we encourage you to explore our company values.
Come help us reverse climate change. Gigatons or bust!
About the role
The voluntary carbon removal market is nascent, ever-changing, and complex. As Charm drives down the cost curve of CDR deliveries and moves molecules, we must continuously validate the long-term engineering roadmap, determine estimated future costs, and understand how process and product carbon efficiency changes as the business evolves. All of Charm’s various departments collaborate together so that we make informed and forward-looking decisions. The Senior Technoeconomic Analyst will play a critical, cross-functional role in supporting these efforts and will have a meaningful impact on the overarching engineering, financial, and strategic roadmaps.
Through the development of detailed models, the role will own the Charm Duo’s life-cycle analysis, conduct first-principles modeling, leverage insights to identify opportunities to drive meaningful system improvements, and support long-term cost curve development.
The role will report directly into the Corporate Finance & Strategy Manager and work hand-in-hand with our Engineering, Research, and Carbon Accounting teams.
Your Responsibilites
- Build upon and refine Charm’s existing technoeconomic and life cycle assessments for Charm’s core carbon removal processes, as well as creating new analyses and models that reflect the latest thinking for company strategy
- Own and improve process flow diagrams and mass and energy balance models for a range of systems and processes
- Drive ad hoc analysis through dynamic models when new opportunities are identified
- Propose and create roadmaps for special research efforts, capital projects, and technology deployment
- Contribute to and coordinate with Charm's Research and Engineering teams on high-leverage process modifications or extensions
- Translate roadmaps into expected financial costs and implications for budgeting and long-range planning
- Work closely with Engineering, Research, Development, Finance and Carbon Accounting to build cross-functional uniformity in technical and economic assumptions
- Help represent pathways to key investors, customers, and other stakeholders evaluating the readiness of Charm’s technologies
Your Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, or other related engineering discipline
- Masters or multiple years of experience in techno-economic analysis or life cycle analysis are significant bonuses
- Deep analytical thinking and an ability to distill down complicated analyses into digestible formats for a range of teams
- An ability to problem solve independently
- Strong data visualization or technical storytelling skills
- Curiosity, creativity, and comfort exploring ideas that don’t yet have clean answers
- Experience with carbon removal, climate tech, energy systems, or heavy industry
- Familiarity with process simulation tools (e.g., Aspen Plus/HYSYS) or optimization frameworks
- Experience with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) or carbon accounting methodologies
- Exposure to carbon markets, MRV frameworks, or registry requirements
- Background working at a hardware startup, pilot facility, or industrial operation
- Ability to read and work with PFDs, P&IDs, and equipment specifications
- Experience evaluating learning curves, deployment strategies, or infrastructure-heavy scale-ups
Bonus, if You Bring
- Strong foundation in quantifying return on investment, net present value, or other key financial performance indicators
- Proficiency in a range of key data modeling tools, from Excel to Python to Aspen Plus
- Prior experience with a high-growth start-up
- Prior experience in carbon removal, industrial manufacturing, refining, or heavy industry like cement, steel, iron, or oil and gas
What We Offer
· Stock options
· Health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
· Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 50% match on contributions up to 6%
· Paid time off, including parental leave
· A yearly professional development stipend
· Healthy snacks for onsite employees
· A chance to pivot into a role in climate!
Visa Sponsorship Policy
Since we are a small startup, certain accommodations for visa sponsorship may not be within our capability. At this time, Charm Industrial is only sponsoring E3 and TN visas.
Our Commitment
Charm Industrial is an equal opportunity employer. We hire based on skills, experience, and passion for our mission. Climate challenges require a wide range of perspectives and expertise, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We’re excited to grow our team with people who bring unique strengths and help us improve as a company.
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The Company
What We Do
Charm Industrial is working to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO₂. We design, build and operate a fleet of mobile fast pyrolyzers that convert ag and forest biomass residues into bio-oil for use in carbon removal and direct-reduced-iron steelmaking. In 2020 our Chief Scientist and co-founder Shaun Meehan had two breakthroughs (bio-oil intermediate and bio-oil sequestration) that kickstarted the company. Within 10 months we completed our first carbon removal injection and in 2021 we completed more than 5,000 tons of CO₂e removal for customers like Stripe, Shopify and Microsoft.
