Mechanical Design Engineer

Atmos Zero is building the next generation of industrial steam infrastructure. Our 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 over time. Rather than forcing facilities to choose between reliability and sustainability, Atmos Zero enables a practical path toward future-ready steam systems that integrate with existing operations and scale with customer needs.

Atmos Zero
· Loveland, Colorado (onsite)
· Full-time
· Engineer IIIor Senior Engineer I

Industrial steam runs manufacturing - breweries, dairies, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals - and almost all of it still comes from a boiler design that predates the jet engine. Much of the U.S. fleet is decades past its prime, facing volatile fuel costs, tightening limits on new combustion, and no cheap way to add capacity.

Boiler 2.0 is a modular heat pump that makes steam at up to 185°C from electricity and air alone. Because it moves heat rather than creating it, it returns roughly 2 units of steam energy per unit of electricity, against well under one for combustion. It drops into the old boiler's footprint and scales by adding modules - no stack, no fuel line, no combustion permit.

Units are in production now in Loveland, Colorado.

The next cost step is mechanical. We need to turn proven system architecture and first-of-a-kind hardware into compact, serviceable, supplier-ready designs that can be built repeatedly at a much lower cost. That means making hard packaging trades, creating production-quality CAD and drawings, designing piping and structures that survive real loads, and giving suppliers a package they can quote and manufacture without guessing.

You would own a real share of that work.

We are hiring one person into this role at whichever of three levels best matches the scope, independence, and judgment demonstrated through the interview process. Apply once and we will place you.

• Engineer III. You independently execute significant mechanical design work packages with limited supervision, such as equipment layouts, piping, structures, detailed assemblies, or supplier-ready drawings. You exercise sound design judgment, coordinate defined interfaces, and consistently carry work from requirements through release and build support.
• Senior Engineer I. You lead complex mechanical design initiatives through ambiguity, such as integrated product packaging, major subsystem design, or design-to-cost work. You own the work end to end, coordinate suppliers and external design resources, mentor teammates, and influence design decisions beyond your immediate area of responsibility.

If you are between levels or arrived at this expertise by an unusual route, apply anyway.

• Develop and maintain integrated 3D CAD layouts for modular industrial heat-pump systems, including equipment placement, piping, frames, enclosures, service access, lifting, shipping, and installation interfaces.
• Translate system and component requirements into production-ready parts, assemblies, fabrication drawings, installation drawings, bills of material, and controlled design releases.
• Own mechanical interfaces among heat exchangers, compressors, valves, pumps, piping, electrical equipment, controls hardware, skids, and enclosures.
• Run packaging and configuration studies that balance footprint, serviceability, reliability, manufacturability, lead time, and cost.

• Turn cost-down concepts into credible mechanical designs, supplier-ready technical packages, and executable engineering changes.
• Lead DFMA and…