Staff/Senior Scientist, R&D
Berkeley, CA$130k - $170kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
AirMyne is a Series A Direct Air Capture startup focused on scalable, cost-competitive CO2 removal. The role leads the R&D team, translating lab-scale findings into process design decisions and coordinating parallel projects to advance an integrated DAC system.
Responsibilities
- Conduct focused-studies as an independent contributor including instrument buildout, analytical development, and process scaleup
- Package R&D learnings into recommendations or specifications for unit operation development and integration by the Engineering team
- Create mathematical models of the process dynamics to an appropriate fidelity within constrained resources
- Verify and improve the process model in collaboration with the Engineering team
- Manage an R&D team, maintaining a research program of several concurrent projects including defining project scope and timeline, and keeping projects on schedule
- Develop analytical methods for improved process characterization via titration and spectroscopy
- Manage AirMyne’s laboratory including instruments, purchasing, and adherence to safety protocols
Qualifications
- MS or PhD in chemistry, chemical engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of industry or startup experience
- Experience purchasing and/or developing methods for analytical instrumentation
- Experience with crystallization
- Comfortable building lab-scale experimental set ups
- Strong data analysis, documentation, and communication skills
- Organized and disciplined about workplace safety and cleanliness
Skills
Required:Laboratory managementInstrument buildout and analytical developmentProcess modelingData analysis and documentation
Nice to have:Crystallization
Benefits
- Benefits plan includes subsidized health, dental, and vision plans with options for life insurance
- 401(k)
- Several company holidays per year including week-long holidays in November and December
- Flexible time-off policy with unlimited PTO
- Equity
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About AirMyne
Building systems to remove carbon dioxide from air at industrial scale
AirMyne is building machines to capture & remove carbon dioxide from ambient atmospheric air so it can be utilized or sequestered downstream. Our team is based in Berkeley, CA.
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