SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Salary: USD 110,000 - 200,000 / 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. The company enables a practical path toward future-ready steam systems that integrate with existing operations and scale with customer needs.
This role translates customer applications into product requirements and standard configurations, connecting architecture decisions to performance, engineering scope, BOM cost, and target cost. You will work at one of three levels (Engineer III, Senior Engineer I, or Senior Engineer II) based on demonstrated scope, independence, and judgment during the interview process.
Key responsibilities include:
**Define the Product:** Translate steam conditions, operating profiles, utility conditions, site constraints, and integration requirements into clear product requirements. Develop system architectures and configurable product definitions for priority market segments. Determine when a standard configuration is sufficient and when customer requirements justify controlled customization.
**Connect Performance and Cost:** Evaluate performance-cost tradeoffs, component choices, operating envelopes, and design-to-cost opportunities. Connect architecture decisions to BOM cost, should-cost information, component selection, and target cost. Evaluate lower-cost product configurations while preserving the performance and operating range required by the target application.
**Support Applications and Decisions:** Perform application analyses and communicate the implications of customer requirements to engineering, commercial, and supply-chain teams. Maintain the process and performance logic connecting customer needs, product requirements, engineering scope, and target BOM.
**First-Year Success Milestones:**
- 90 days: Understand current architecture, customer-application inputs, and cost structure; complete a product-configuration or application analysis.
- 6 months: Own architecture trade studies for a priority segment and connect recommendations to performance, BOM, and target cost.
- 12 months: Deliver a validated lower-cost standard configuration and a repeatable method for screening standard versus customized applications.
**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of experience in thermal systems, heat transfer, thermodynamics, or process engineering for industrial applications (steam, HVAC, refrigeration, or similar).
- Experience defining configurable or modular product platforms for multiple applications or market segments.
- Experience with utility and site-integration studies, application sizing, proposals, or front-end engineering.
- Fluency with EES, Aspen Plus/HYSYS, MATLAB, Python, GT-SUITE, or techno-economic modeling tools.
- Experience with design-to-cost, value engineering, product management, or commercialization of engineered hardware.
