Principal Application Engineer

Air Joule is uniquely poised at the intersection of addressing climate change, supporting the energy transition, and helping water starved regions. If you are passionate about these missions and are passionate about disrupting technologies that will change the world as we know it, then Air Joule is the place for you!

We are a joint venture between GE Vernova and Air Joule Technologies. Our revolutionary atmosphere water harvesting technology enables both dehumidification and transformative cooling, while also producing clean and decentralized water for industrial, commercial, and humanitarian purposes.

If you are a highly motivated and experienced individual who wants to make a real-world impact, please apply!

Air Joule is seeking a Principal Applications Engineer to join the application engineering team, which focuses on optimization of device performance, product design, and integration with customer sites. The role of the Principal Applications Engineer starts in the lab, where technical leadership is necessary to guide product development. After this, the engineer then transitions the technology into the real world. This role will be involved with controlling and optimizing the subsystems and components that make up Air Joule systems.

The engineer must be knowledgeable with respect to mass balance, process properties, and thermal management and is expected to guide experimentation to validate this. This assignment will be located at Air Joule’s headquarters in Newark, DE. The Systems Engineer should be familiar with complex chemical or mechanical systems, process control and automation, and models of chemical and mechanical systems.

To perform in this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each key responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.

• Lead efforts in concept design of Air Joule Systems, including development of conceptual frameworks for overall system architecture.
• Creation of P&, component selection, and development of subsystems used within Air Joule systems.
• Act as SME for a technology area within Air Joule systems and subsystems
• Perform high-caliber applied engineering R&D with strong adherence to scientific method.
• Work within the Systems Engineering teams in order to optimize current Air Joule systems and substsems. An example is optimization of adsorption systems, including geometry, sizing, flowpath, adsorption kinetics as it pertains to Air Joule adsorbent-coated heat exchangers. Other examples include coolant systems, vacuum systems, process controls development, etc…
• Lead deployments of Air Joule systems at customer sites, including travel to customer sites, planning and coordination of deployment events, commissioning of said systems, and analysis of the resulting data.
• Develop models/simulations for Air Joule systems, interactions with environments, and Air Joule adsorption subcomponents. Software such as ASPEN, Matlab, COMSOL, DWSIM, Solidworks, etc… may be utilized.
• Perform detailed data analysis with software such as JMP.
• Document experimental results in the form of PowerPoint presentations, technical report documents, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) entries.
• Uphold a safe, respectful, collaborative, inclusive, and appreciative team environment.

• Minimum Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemistry, Material Science, or related field required.

• Experience with running multicomponent mechanical and/or chemical systems, such as ‘rigs’, reactors, automotives, technical prototypes, etc… including knowledge of safe operating methods.
• Experience with real world implementations of complex technical systems, such as field deployments, running plants, etc…
• Experience with troubleshooting, causal analysis, and/or diagnostic and performance reviews
• Expertise with either sorption, filtration, ion exchange,…