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title: 'Senior Data Engineer at Aircapture'
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# Senior Data Engineer at Aircapture

- **Company:** Aircapture
- **Location:** Berkeley, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-05-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aircapture/jobs/4680086006

## Job description

At Aircapture we’re creating technology to solve what we believe to be our lifetime’s most pressing challenge: the climate crisis. We supply commercial and industrial customers with clean CO₂ captured from our atmosphere to radically improve the environment, our economy, and our lives. We value building a team of people who represent diverse backgrounds—be it through education, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation—to reach our goals. Thank you for considering us.

You will shape the data foundation that runs our technology by owning the pipelines, models, and analyses that turn operational data from our Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems into the insights that our engineers and scientists rely upon. Partnering with our test and engineering teams, you’ll turn the continuous stream of sensor, process, and test data from the physical equipment in the field and shop into actionable decisions. You have built and run production data systems in a hardware or physical product environment, and are comfortable with the realities of real-world sensor data, making durable architectural choices that hold up over time. If this sounds like you and you are excited to have a major impact at a groundbreaking climate technology startup, we want to hear from you!

This role is onsite at our development and production facility in Berkeley, California.

Salary: $180,000-$220,000 per year

Please include a cover letter with your application–describe why you are interested in this role and Aircapture using your own words (not AI).

## What You’ll Do Here

- Own and evolve Aircapture’s end-to-end data platform, using both Ignition and AWS
- Set technical direction for the data stack, evaluating tools, defining standards, and making durable architectural decisions
- Standardize and enforce engineering workflows across the data stack, such as version control, code review, CI/CD, testing, and documentation
- Maintain and support on-prem server systems as part of the data infrastructure
- Partner closely with controls engineering on Ignition rollout
- Partner with test engineering to build the pipeline that moves test and operational telemetry, including sensor, DAQ, and historian data, into the dashboards and reports engineering relies on

## Your Skills and Experience Include

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on industry experience, Master’s preferred
- 6+ years building and operating production data systems that are mission critical to a hardware or physical product, gained in an industry such as automotive, aerospace, robotics, industrial equipment, energy, or semiconductor manufacturing. Hands-on hardware/physical-product experience required
- Solid experience with AWS and services such as RDS, IAM, VPC, S3
- Strong SQL and Python expertise combined with solid engineering fundamentals across Git, CI/CD, and production workflows
- Thorough background in dbt across the full model lifecycle, plus orchestration tools like Airflow and Docker for production deployment
- Hands-on experience with industrial historian or DAQ platforms such as Ignition, ibaPDA, Keysight, National Instruments, or similar, as well as fluency working with time-series and sensor data
- Working physical intuition for the systems generating your data — thermal, fluid, electrical, or mechanical — sufficient to sanity-check sensor readings, spot anomalies, and communicate credibly with test and controls engineers
- Strong analytical orientation toward data interpretation, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adjust architectural decisions accordingly
- Effective cross-functional collaborator and communicator; able to translate ambiguity into scoped work and push back when needed
- Self-directed, resourceful, and highly ownership-oriented from scoping through delivery
- Bonus: BI tooling experience, climate/energy domain background, or prior experience partnering directly with a test or reliability engineering function

Aircapture strives to create a safe, inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace. Every teammate adds to who we are, diversifying our ideas, experiences, and viewpoints and making us stronger. We hope you feel welcome here.

## About Aircapture

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aircapture provides commercial and industrial customers with beverage-grade CO₂ captured directly from the atmosphere via modular Direct Air Capture (DAC) machines, disrupting legacy supply chains with a circular carbon economy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Berkeley, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Matt Atwood

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Climate Technology, Direct Air Capture (DAC), Carbon Dioxide Utilization, Industrial Gas Supply
- **Target customers**: B2B — commercial and industrial customers in need of reliable, on-site CO₂ supply (e.g., beverage companies, greenhouses, manufacturing)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To deploy DAC and carbon-to-product technologies widely while addressing climate inequity and developing the infrastructure of the future, with the ultimate goal of socio-environmental equilibrium [aircapture.com](https://aircapture.com/about-us).

## Products & Services
- **On-Site CO₂-as-a-Service**: Aircapture installs modular DAC machines on customer premises that capture CO₂ from the atmosphere and make it immediately available for production processes. This eliminates transportation emissions, supply chain volatility, and impurities associated with legacy CO₂ sources.
- **Beverage Grade CO₂**: Ultra-pure CO₂ suitable for carbonated beverages, food processing, and other applications requiring high purity.
- **Circular Carbon Economy Infrastructure**: The company builds and scales the physical infrastructure to produce carbon from the atmosphere, enabling carbon-to-value industries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $50.0M (Series A closed June 5, 2025, led by Larsen Lam Climate Change Foundation; prior grant from US Department of Energy in 2022) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/air-capture)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Larsen Lam Climate Change Foundation (lead Series A), US Department of Energy (grant)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 44 employees (+13.3% YoY); 6 active job postings (+100% YoY); 6,518 LinkedIn followers (+33.1% YoY); operates out of a 19,000 sq ft state-of-the-art facility in West Berkeley focused on rapid prototyping and production [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/air-capture) [aircapture.com](https://aircapture.com/careers)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary DAC Technology**: Modular, on-site systems that eliminate the need for CO₂ transportation, drastically reducing supply chain emissions (the company estimates 2+ tonnes of CO₂ are emitted for every tonne of legacy CO₂ delivered).
- **Cost-Effective & Verifiable**: DAC can be sited anywhere, has no natural or technical limits to scale, and the quantity removed is verifiable and cost-effective today.
- **First-Mover in Circular CO₂ Economy**: Positioned to serve customers who want to decarbonize their supply chain while gaining independence from volatile commodity CO₂ markets.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling DAC Deployment**: Moving from prototype to commercial production, with a focus on manufacturing and deploying units to customers across multiple industries.
- **Building the Infrastructure of the Future**: Developing the physical and digital systems needed to support a circular carbon economy at scale.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring across engineering disciplines (Senior Data Engineer, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Senior Microwave Engineer, Director of Test Engineering, Process Engineer I) to accelerate product development and deployment [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aircapture).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees work on what the company calls "this era's most meaningful work" — solving the climate crisis through scalable carbon removal technology.
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes diversity of thought, education, gender, ethnicity, and background. Core values include "One Team, One Mission," "Always Forward," "Honesty Drives Progress," and "Solve for Scale" [aircapture.com](https://aircapture.com/about-us).
- **Benefits**: Ground floor equity, medical/dental/vision coverage, 401k plan, unlimited paid time off, stocked kitchen, catered lunches/BBQs, relaxed dress code, and a state-of-the-art 12,000 sq ft facility in West Berkeley [aircapture.com](https://aircapture.com/careers).
- **Work Model**: Primarily in-person at the Berkeley facility to build team rapport, but open to discussing remote opportunities for the right candidates.
- **Engineering Culture**: Hands-on R&D environment with rapid prototyping, iteration, and in-house production. Led by a Head of Engineering (Will Colban) with 20 years of experience in energy efficiency and storage, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.

## Sources
1. [aircapture.com](https://aircapture.com/)
2. [aircapture.com - About Us](https://aircapture.com/about-us)
3. [aircapture.com - Careers](https://aircapture.com/careers)
4. [Greenhouse - Aircapture Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aircapture)
5. [LinkedIn - Aircapture](https://www.linkedin.com/company/air-capture)

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