Thermofluid Engineer

Rivan Industries () is a synthetic fuel company designed to decarbonise heavy industry. We've developed a unique power-to-fuel machine built for low-capex deployment powered entirely by utility-scale solar.Here's our entire business plan . We already have individual operating modules of our machine, we're funded, and we're now building out the team to bring the vision together and deploy at scale.

We aim to make synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels and sustain life on earth by keeping the CO2 locked underground. We're looking for a Thermofluid engineer to help architect, design and build our next generation of methanation reactor. If you want to work on a high-impact technology that you'll see the impact of in the world surrounded by smart people working with a sense of urgency and intensity - this is for you.

The role:

• Architect, design and build our next generation of methanation reactor. Run through the complete design and implementation process from subsystem architecting, to build and commissioning
• System analytical/computational modelling
• Gas storage and compression
• Process heating, cooling and separation
• Composition sensing and control

Core skills:

• 3+ years professional experience
• Bachelor's or Masters in mechanical/aero/chemical engineering or related field
• Fundamental thermofluids understanding, heat and mass transfer, chemical kinetics
• Chemical reactor, heat exchanger, fluidic system design and build experience (or related)
• Simulation/analytical modelling competency
• Test setup design, running of experiments and data analysis

The things that are important to us for this role:

• Execution history. What have you built or designed before where you had the responsibility? Side projects are great.
• Reasoning by first principles. Can you deconvolute complex scenarios into their foundational truths or parts?
• Urgency. We don't have time to wait, are you comfortable with a high-degree of risk and pressure to move fast?

The things we don't care about very much:

• Where you went to school / education.
• Where you have worked previously.

Specifics:

• £60-90K Salary depending on experience.
• Significant share options as part of the early team.
• In-person work at our HQ in Bermondsey, South-East London.
• Extensive relocation support, including £6000 per year extra to live close to our HQ.