Senior Design Engineer

About ZELP

ZELP is an agricultural technology company committed to creating a sustainable future for agriculture - one that meets the needs of present and future generations, promoting human and environmental health, animal welfare, and social and economic equity.

Our first focus is to develop and scale technology that measures and mitigates methane emissions in the livestock industry. Today, 1.3 billion people rely on the industry for their livelihoods and food security. However, it is the single biggest human-driven source of methane emissions globally, emitting more than both the oil & gas industry and the coal industry.

The deployment of our technologies on a global scale has the potential to drive half the global methane reduction needed by 2030, and to greatly transform the beef and dairy industries.

ZELP was an inaugural winner of the Terra Carta Design Lab, and has received funding and support from the European Commission, Innovate UK, The Global Methane Hub and the Gates Foundation.

As Senior Design Engineer within ZELP, you will provide instrumental engineering input, and play a fundamental role in the development of ZELP's technologies.

• Concepting and ideation
• Supporting key design decision making alongside other senior and lead engineers
• Providing quality drawings and CAD for prototyping and fabrication of parts
• Hands‑on prototyping and building of test samples
• Producing and maintaining thorough and accurate design project documentation
• Preparing, testing, and monitoring the progress of trials so that all failures to meet requirements are corrected in a timely manner and communicated effectively to the team
• Implementing design changes that are evaluated for feasibility, cost, and timing and implemented with care and thoroughness
• Supporting other departments (Hardware, Software, Animal Science) with problem‑solving and other project activities

Proven experience with:

• New product/technology concept development
• 3D CAD (Solidworks, OnShape)
• 2D drawings and concepting
• Tolerance stacks
• DFM
• Manufacturing methods (3D printing, CNC'ing, vacuum casting, etc.)

• Hands‑on testing
• Managing external suppliers
• Manufacturing at high volume / production lines
• Product data management / Engineering changes
• CAD Surfacing / Assemblies

• Gas sensing and sensor housing
• Thermal engineering design / Heat management
• Fluidics / pneumatic systems / valves
• Farm / Agriculture experience