Decarbonisation Model Engineer Decarbonisation Model Engineer Neutreeno Hybrid · England, GB about ago

Decarbonisation Model Engineer

Neutreeno Hybrid
· England, GB 3 days ago

ABOUT NEUTREENO

Climate change is the defining business challenge of our time, and we're here to solve it. Most decarbonisation solutions count emissions but do nothing to reduce them. We've changed that.

We’re Neutreeno, an emissions-to-performance platform, born out of the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering. We help companies with supply chains and production processes turn emissions data into operational insight, the kind that cuts costs, sharpens decisions, and unlocks genuine competitive advantage. For operations and finance, it'smarginthey can measure. For sustainability teams, it's progress they can prove. Same data, two audiences, one engine.

We’re a fast-moving team that values EQ just as much as IQ. Autonomy, high ownership, speed and no-ego collaboration are at our core. We seek people who care deeply and are eager to work on solving problems bigger than themselves.

THE ROLE

As a Decarbonisation Model Engineer, you'll sit at the forefront of industrial decarbonisation, identifying, evaluating and modelling the technologies and process changes that cut carbon emissions across complex industries. The role is defined by system-level thinking: treating a client's processes, sites, energy supply and supply chain as one connected system, then finding where a change in energy use, material use or technology delivers the greatest reduction in emissions and cost.

Working across sectors like jet engine production, electricity transmission and EV battery manufacturing, you'll sit at the intersection of engineering, sustainability, economics and data science. Your models become part of the product, putting a credible number on every lever: what it costs, what it returns, and what it is worth under today's and tomorrow's carbon prices.

THE WORK YOU'LL DO

• Build bottom-up models from first principles that calculate bespoke decarbonisation levers at scale, accounting for cost, dependencies and implementation time.

• Quantify energy and material efficiency opportunities, from heat recovery, electrification and utilities to yield losses, material substitution and circular design while identifying Best Available Technologies (BAT) for technology-specific cases.

• Develop the techno-economic analysis behind each lever: CAPEX and OPEX, cost of abatement, marginal abatement cost curves, and sensitivity analysis that stands up to a client's finance team.

• Develop our carbon pricing engine across the current pricing landscape (compliance markets, taxation, internal shadow pricing, CBAM) and model client exposure under different price scenarios.

• Identify where decarbonisation creates value, including green premium pricing for low-carbon products and access to incentives and green finance.

• Write clear, reproducible Python behind the models and mentor junior engineers.

THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS YOU'LL NEED

• Masters or PhD in Industrial, Chemical, Process or Mechanical Engineering.

• 3+ years of industry or research experience in techno-economic modelling, with a strong focus on energy and material efficiency and emissions reduction.

• Proven system-level thinking: able to reason about whole systems and identify where the biggest opportunity sits, rather than optimising components in isolation.

• Deep working knowledge of energy and material efficiency in industry: heat integration, electrification and fuel switching, and how material flows, yield losses and substitution drive embodied emissions.

• Strong command of carbon accounting and life cycle assessment, including Scope 1, 2 and 3 inventories, product carbon footprints and the relevant frameworks (GHG Protocol, ISO 14064 / 14067, SBTi, CBAM).

• Costing…