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Salary: USD 110,000 - 180,000 / annual
AtmosZero is building next-generation industrial steam infrastructure. The flagship product, Boiler 2.0, is a modular industrial steam heat pump designed to help manufacturers reduce operational risk, improve flexibility, and modernize steam generation. This role adds hands-on process-engineering capacity across Pilot, Prototype, and 1 MW development systems, enabling existing technical leaders to focus more heavily on product segmentation and cost-down engineering.
You will independently own significant process and thermal-system workstreams, coordinate technical interfaces, and deliver results from requirements and analysis through testing, troubleshooting, and implementation. Key responsibilities include:
**Test, Troubleshoot, and Improve:**
- Define test objectives, plans, procedures, acceptance criteria, instrumentation, and data-acquisition requirements across Pilot, Prototype, and 1 MW systems.
- Support test execution, analyze operating data, identify root causes, and define engineering changes that close performance and reliability gaps.
- Prepare systems for commissioning and resolve process, instrumentation, and controls issues during startup and operation.
**Define How the System Operates:**
- Develop operating sequences, operating envelopes, alarms, permissives, interlocks, fault protection, and recovery behavior with controls engineers.
- Translate process intent into clear controls requirements, instrumentation specifications, setpoints, and validation tests.
**Standardize Execution:**
- Maintain and improve P&IDs, process requirements, test procedures, operating methods, and decision records.
- Convert test and operating learning into repeatable system designs, validated limits, and controlled engineering changes.
**First-Year Success Milestones:**
- 90 days: Build a working model of the Pilot, Prototype, and 1 MW systems and independently support a test campaign or commissioning-readiness workstream.
- 6 months: Own recurring test and troubleshooting work, close process or controls issues, and release resulting procedures or engineering changes.
- 12 months: Establish a standardized process, operating method, or protection strategy validated in hardware and reused across systems.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, or related discipline, with relevant experience at the level at which you are hired.
- Strong command of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and process-control fundamentals.
- Demonstrated experience testing and troubleshooting thermal-fluid or process systems in hardware.
- Experience with instrumentation, data acquisition, test planning, data analysis, P&IDs, operating procedures, and engineering-change definition.
- Ability to develop operating sequences, alarms, permissives, interlocks, and fault-protection requirements with controls engineers.
- Comfort working directly with technicians and engineers in a startup environment where systems and documentation evolve together.
**Nice-to-Have:**
- Advanced degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, or related discipline.
- Experience with industrial heat pumps, refrigeration, steam systems, process skids, HVAC equipment, or comparable thermal-fluid hardware.
- Experience with PLC-controlled equipment, controls commissioning, functional testing, or cause-and-effect development.
- Fluency with MATLAB, Python, EES, Aspen Plus/HYSYS, GT-SUITE, or comparable analysis tools.
- Experience taking prototype hardware through commissioning, qualification, production release, or field troubleshooting.
