Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer

Talus' mission is to realize humanity's sustainable future by improving access to food and fuel for all. We achieve this by producing green ammonia -- the fundamental component of all synthetic fertilizers -- using renewable electricity, water, and air.

We're building a distributed network of modular green ammonia systems globally, offering reliable, carbon-free ammonia to our partners at a fraction of the current market price. Our first system is operational in Kenya, and we aim to expand our platform to enhance access to locally produced renewable energy and alternative fuels worldwide.

We are seeking a Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer to own the compressors and pumps in our modular green ammonia systems, from process requirements and datasheets through procurement, packaging, factory testing, commissioning, and long-term reliability in the field. You will report to our Senior Mechanical Engineer.

Hydrogen and nitrogen compression sits on the critical path of plant availability, and this role exists to make those packages the most reliable part of the plant. You will start alongside an external compressor specialist retained for our next-generation system, and we expect you to take full ownership of the scope as that engagement concludes. This role is fully remote and open to candidates anywhere with strong English.

• Requirements and datasheets: Translate process duty into a compressor specification and datasheet you can defend line by line, with every requirement traceable to a stated duty. Flow, suction and discharge conditions, gas composition, moisture, turndown and load-following behavior set the stage count, capacity control philosophy, driver, cooling and sealing requirements.

• Technology selection: Assess compressor types for each service, including reciprocating, diaphragm, screw, centrifugal and integrally geared, record why the selected type suits hydrogen, nitrogen and syngas duty at our scale, and draw a clear line between a specified standard package and a custom machine.

• RFQ and procurement: Build and issue an RFQ package that is complete and technology-neutral when it goes out, covering specification, datasheets, scope of supply, standards, documentation, testing requirements, the inspection and test plan, spares and guarantees, then run the vendor clarification rounds and close out deviations before award.

• Bid evaluation: Produce the technical bid tabulation, normalize offers to a common scope, expose gaps and exclusions, and recommend an award on documented grounds that weigh guaranteed power and performance, wear-part life, availability, maintainability and spares alongside price and delivery.

• Package engineering: Review and challenge everything the vendor supplies around the machine, from pulsation and mechanical response studies, torsional analysis, lube and seal systems, coolers, drivers and couplings, valves and unloaders, distance pieces and vent and purge arrangements through to machinery protection and instrumentation, baseplate and skid structure, and the piping and utility interfaces to our system.

• Maintainability: Settle removal envelopes, lifting provisions and maintenance access during design, so a machine and its auxiliaries can be worked on in place on a modular skid.

• Reliability and spares: Fix the criticality, sparing philosophy, condition-monitoring basis and maintenance intervals for every machine before it ships, covering wear parts and their expected life, capital and insurance spares, and preservation and storage requirements. Build the failure-mode picture for each package and design the monitoring around it.

• Factory testing: Define and witness factory acceptance and performance…