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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 while integrating with existing operations.
This Thermal Systems Engineer role reports to the Senior Director of New Product Development and focuses on cost-reduction and system optimization for Boiler 2.0. The core mission is to deliver materially lower-cost thermal systems without compromising performance, reliability, controllability, or operating range.
Key responsibilities include:
**Define Lower-Cost Thermal Systems**
- Evaluate thermal-system configurations, packaging concepts, and performance-cost tradeoffs
- Define process conditions and requirements for heat exchangers, compressors, valves, pumps, piping, and supporting components
- Develop validated lower-cost configurations while protecting performance, reliability, controllability, and operating range
**Own Heat-Exchanger and Component Decisions**
- Lead heat-exchanger selection, sizing, qualification, and supplier engagement
- Use analysis, test data, and engineering judgment to compare component choices and define validation requirements
- Connect system assumptions and component decisions to product requirements, BOM cost, and target cost
**Direct External Technical Work**
- Coordinate external component-design and thermal-system consultants
- Define consultant scope, supply technical inputs, review assumptions and models, and drive deliverables to closure
- Translate consultant outputs into controlled requirements, design decisions, supplier packages, and test plans
**First-Year Success Milestones**
- 90 days: Understand current thermal architecture and cost-down workstreams; take ownership of a component or configuration study
- 6 months: Complete a supplier-backed thermal design or cost-down recommendation with clear requirements, assumptions, risks, and validation needs
- 12 months: Deliver validated thermal-system or component changes into production design, with full traceability to cost and performance targets
The role is hired at one of two levels based on demonstrated scope, independence, and judgment:
- **Engineer III**: Independently own significant process or thermal-system workstreams, coordinate technical interfaces, and deliver results from requirements and analysis through testing, troubleshooting, and implementation.
- **Senior Engineer I**: Lead complex system work through ambiguity, own major technical workstreams end to end, mentor teammates, and influence cross-functional decisions.
**Requirements**
- 5+ years of thermal-systems, mechanical-systems, or process-engineering experience in industrial equipment, power generation, HVAC, or comparable domains
- Experience with industrial heat pumps, refrigeration, steam systems, thermal-cycle design, ORC systems, or comparable industrial thermal equipment
- Experience with component suppliers, design consultants, qualification testing, and production release
- Fluency with EES, Aspen Plus/HYSYS, MATLAB, Python, GT-SUITE, HTRI, or comparable analysis tools
- Experience with design-to-cost, value engineering, packaging optimization, or commercialization of thermal equipment
