Ocean Career: Skyology Project Scientist—Biogeochemistry
Listed on 2026-09-02
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Research/Development
Research Scientist
Project Scientist Opportunity At Skyology
Skyology aims to use its proprietary reactor technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at the gigaton scale. Our goal is to improve the lives of millions of people and organisms by capturing CO2 and removing acidity from the ocean.
As a project scientist, you will be a key member of the ongoing research projects will test and publish our living techno-economic-assessment. You will drive the development of our products from the benchtop to scale-up. You will cross-functionally guide the team's research, design experiments, analyze data, and engineer solutions. You will be accountable for writing technical reports, presenting findings to internal and external stakeholders, and managing external partnerships.
We are looking for people passionate about the ocean and fighting climate change.
- Build a living techno-economic assessment alongside the current hypothesis and technology
- Explore and develop technical leadership for multiple novel technologies
- Validate and establish reactor components inhouse, measure and improve variability in data
- Maintain experimental records, perform data analysis and generate summaries for internal and external meetings
- Resolve experimental problems
- Integrating research into technical engineering specifications
- Mentor junior team members on the issues that come with working on deep technology moonshots
- Ph.D. or MSc in Oceanography, biogeochemistry, and ocean chemistry, with a focus on the carbon cycle, reaction pathways, OAE, or related background
- Two years of industry experience post-graduation
- Hands-on experience with CO2 mineralization, reactive transport, and aqueous geochemistry
- An ideal candidate has strong engineering practices and is comfortable testing research at a rapid pace
- Experience Translating and applying research to the commercialization of products
- Startup experience, rigor, and discipline
- Design or construction of pilot plants/field trials
- Experience with techno-economic analysis
- Experience with systems thinking
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