Principal Electrochemical Engineer

VVater is America’s Next Water Company, delivering the future of purification through its award‑winning Farady Reactor (CES Best of Innovation 2025, World Future Award 2025, Time Best Invention Award 2025), proprietary ALTEP (Advanced Low Tension Electroporation Process), Advanced Dissolved Air Flotation, and Micro & Nano Bubble technologies. Unlike outdated chemical, filter, and membrane systems, VVater’s electric‑field breakthroughs eliminate PFAS, microplastics, microorganisms, and other contaminants with record retention times, without toxic byproducts or costly consumables.

With over 4.3B gallons treated and validation from global leaders, VVater is scaling into municipal drinking water and wastewater, DPR/IPR, onsite reuse for data centers, commercial buildings, and resorts, residential purification, and consumer health water, delivering a 60% smaller footprint, 40% Cap Ex savings, 80% OpEx savings, and 40% less energy use.

THIS IS AN ONSITE POSITION BASED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS - NO REMOTE OR HYBRID AVAILABILITY FOR THIS POSITION

The Principal Electrochemical Engineer is the technical owner of the electrochemical treatment systems. You will lead the way in how reactors are conceived, modeled, built, tested, and scaled: electrode materials and geometry, cell and stack architecture, hydrodynamics, power delivery, and durability. You will take a reactor from a single bench cell to a field-deployed, manufacturable module that performs reliably on real water.

An electrochemical engineer who works from first principles (thermodynamics, kinetics, mass transport, and current distribution) and who has already carried at least one electrochemical technology out of the lab and into pilot or commercial operation. You will work with process research, electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.

VVater moves at a fast pace to accelerate the development and adoption of cutting-edge technologies in the water industry. The right person will be energized by that pace rather than depleted by it.

• Lead the design of electrochemical reactors, cells, and stacks: electrode materials and geometry, flow field and hydrodynamics, current and potential distribution, gas management, sealing, and materials of construction
• Select, develop, and qualify electrode materials and coatings for activity, selectivity, conductivity, and service life in real waters matrices
• Diagnose and solve degradation mechanisms, including passivation, scaling, fouling, corrosion, and coating loss, and design reactors
• Collaborate with the electrical engineering team to define power delivery and relate electrical operating parameters to electrochemical performance and energy use
• Elucidate reaction mechanisms and kinetics for target contaminants and byproducts, and quantify efficiency, selectivity, and specific energy consumption
• Apply electroanalytical methods (CV, LSV, EIS, chronoamperometry, chronopotentiometry, rotating disk, and reference-electrode techniques) to extract kinetic, thermodynamic, and mass-transport parameters
• Build multiphysics and CFD models (e.g., COMSOL, ANSYS) of current distribution, mass transport, bubble-laden multiphase flow, and heat generation to guide design and scale-up
• Use structured experimental design and data-driven optimization (DOE, Bayesian and machine-learning methods) to accelerate development cycles
• Scale reactors from bench cells to pilot and commercial modules, defining scale-up rules and validating performance at each step
• Support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), field commissioning, and troubleshooting of deployed reactors
• Develop SOPs, operating envelopes, and safety protocols for electrochemical systems, including gas evolution,…