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# Senior Industrial Hygienist at Antora Energy

- **Company:** Antora Energy
- **Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-21
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/antora/jobs/6230110004

## Job description

Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.

We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.

Position Summary

The Senior Industrial Hygienist will run Antora’s industrial hygiene program across our San Jose manufacturing, machining, and R&D sites and support our growing domestic footprint. This is a hands-on role for an industrial hygienist with at least five years of experience and a strong grounding in OSHA and Cal/OSHA health standards and TLVs (Threshold Limit Values), published by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. You’ll work with operations, maintenance, engineers, process owners, and R&D teams to understand how work is done, review SDSs and toxicology information, determine which exposure assessments are needed, and conduct the sampling yourself.

You’ll spend most of your time where the exposures are: in machine shops, cleanroom laboratories, and R&D test areas.  You'll work with engineers and scientists as they develop new technology. You’ll explain results clearly to the employees whose exposures you measure and to Antora’s leaders, then use the data and what you hear from the people doing the work to improve the program. This role combines fieldwork and practical problem-solving with the day-to-day work of maintaining exposure monitoring, controls, and health programs. Industrial hygiene is part of Antora’s mission to stop global warming: the safer we build and test our thermal energy storage systems, the faster we can scale.

Roles & Responsibilities

Exposure assessment

- Maintain and expand Antora’s qualitative and quantitative exposure assessment program using similar exposure groups to assess dusts (including graphite and other carbon dusts), metal fumes, chemical vapors, noise, and heat stress.
- Plan and conduct personal and area air monitoring, noise surveys, and heat stress evaluations, and interpret the results against occupational exposure limits (OELs).
- Communicate results to employees and leadership, including  through written exposure notifications and summary reports.
- Review SDSs and toxicology data for new or changed processes, chemicals, and equipment - work with engineers and process owners to understand how they will be used, and determine what exposure assessments are needed before they are introduced.

Controls and health programs

- Recommend and verify controls that follow the hierarchy of controls, including local exhaust ventilation, enclosure, substitution, and PPE.
- Evaluate ventilation and local exhaust performance, and support combustible dust hazard analyses.
- Run the respiratory protection, hearing conservation, hazard communication, and heat illness prevention programs. This includes fit testing, respirator selection, and chemical approval reviews.

Compliance and program support

- Maintain compliance with OSHA and Cal/OSHA general industry health standards (e.g., air contaminants, respiratory protection, noise, hexavalent chromium, and heat illness prevention) and related record keeping.
- Manage sampling equipment and calibration, chain of custody, and relationships with accredited labs and outside industrial hygiene consultants.
- Develop and deliver relevant training for employees and supervisors.
- Help strategize solutions for larger issues while also being willing to do the hard work of maintaining our processes. (You may be sampling dust in the machining room one day, reviewing a new chemical for an R&D test the next, and presenting results to leadership the day after, or all in one day.)

## Key Qualifications

- 5+ years of industrial hygiene experience in a general industry setting, such as industrial or manufacturing operations.
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in industrial hygiene, occupational health, chemistry, biology, engineering, or a similar science-based discipline.
- Direct experience designing and conducting exposure assessments using NIOSH and OSHA sampling methods and interpreting results against OELs.
- Strong working knowledge of toxicology, including routes of exposure and dose-response, and the ability to use SDSs and toxicology data to determine which hazards need evaluation.
- Experience working with engineers and process owners to understand a process and turn it into a sampling plan.
- Strong working knowledge of OSHA and Cal/OSHA health standards and ACGIH TLVs, and direct experience running respiratory protection, hearing conservation, and hazard communication programs.
- A commitment to continually improving your ability to research and monitor regulations and industry best practices (e.g., OSHA, Cal/OSHA, ACGIH, NIOSH, AIHA, ANSI).
- Great interpersonal and communication skills that can adapt to the shop floor, to training rooms, to speaking to senior management.
- Strong ability to manage multiple projects in a disciplined manner and ensure deliverables for key priorities are met in a timely manner.
- An open and humble approach to finding the best solution to an issue that is in alignment with our mission.
- The patience and determination to work in a fast-paced work environment with conflicting priorities.

Additional Qualifications Desired

- CIH certification preferred, or active progress toward it.
- Experience with graphite, carbon, or metal dusts and combustible dust hazards.
- Experience with ventilation testing and direct-reading instruments.
- A master’s degree in industrial hygiene, toxicology, or an EH&S-relevant discipline.
- Experience and passion for working with Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles.

Work Location:  Onsite - San Jose, CA

Salary Range:  $153,000 USD - $185,000 USD

Salary Basis:  Annual

Please note that the salary range listed above reflects Antora Energy's estimated pay for this position. The actual salary offered will be within the posted range and determined based on several factors including but not limited to a candidate's experiences, credentials and expertise, as they pertain to the position's requirements.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Antora Energy’s Total Rewards program includes equity compensation in the form of stock options, a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance, a 401K plan with employer contributions, flexible spending accounts, and an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.

#LI-Onsite https://diversityjobs.com/employer/top-diversity-employers?utm_campaign=TopEmployer&utm_medium=badge  When it comes to stopping climate change, we need everyone. We believe that having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences strengthens all of us, and we strive to create an environment where every one of us is empowered to create meaningful change.

## About Antora Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Antora Energy manufactures and deploys modular thermal batteries that convert low-cost, intermittent clean electricity into reliable, always-on heat and power for global industrial facilities and data centers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Justin Briggs, Andrew Ponec, David Bierman

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable Energy Power Generation, Thermal Energy Storage, Industrial Decarbonization
- **Target customers**: Large-scale industrial energy users (biofuels, refining, pulp & paper, steel & iron, chemicals, mining, concrete & lime, food & beverage) and data center operators (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We are here to power global industry with clean energy.” The company aims to make cheap, clean energy the standard that powers global industry.

## Products & Services
- **Thermal Battery System**: A modular, factory-built energy storage system that uses solid carbon (one of the safest, most stable materials on earth) to store surplus clean electricity as heat. It delivers always-on heat and power for industrial operations, scales from megawatts to gigawatts, and is designed for low cost, rapid deployment, and massive scale.
- **Project Big Stone**: One of the largest battery storage systems in the world, deployed in under 12 months for POET, the world’s largest biofuels producer. It delivers affordable, reliable energy and serves as a proof-of-concept for the company’s giga-scale deployment model.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$220.0M** across 10 rounds, including a $150M Series B led by Decarbonization Partners (Feb 2024). Annual revenue estimated at **$7.7M**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Decarbonization Partners, National Science Foundation, California Energy Commission. Key partner: POET (biofuels).
- **Growth Signals**: 197 employees (+36.6% YoY), 31,700 LinkedIn followers (+42.9% YoY), active job postings up 140% YoY. The company is building gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries annually at its U.S. factory and has a presence in Spain.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Technology**: Uses solid carbon thermal storage—a simple, safe, and low-cost material—to provide both heat and power, differentiating from chemical battery or molten salt solutions.
- **Modular & Factory-Built**: Modules are manufactured in a U.S. factory, enabling rapid deployment, seamless integration, and operational redundancy at any scale.
- **Speed to Market**: Project Big Stone advanced from an empty lot to energy delivery in under 12 months, demonstrating a fast deployment model that can be replicated globally.
- **Multi-day Storage**: Provides reliable energy for industrial operations where downtime is not an option, solving the intermittency problem of renewables.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale and Replicate**: Replicating the Project Big Stone model at factories and data centers across the U.S. and globally.
- **Giga-scale Manufacturing**: Expanding factory capacity to produce gigawatt-hours of thermal batteries each year, with a focus on American manufacturing.
- **Market Expansion**: Targeting hard-to-abate industrial sectors (steel, cement, chemicals) and data centers, while expanding internationally (e.g., Spain).
- **Cost Leadership**: Driving down costs to make cheap, clean energy the standard for global industry.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company’s north star is to power global industry with clean energy, offering employees a chance to work on one of the most urgent climate challenges.
- **Culture**: Values include “Build with Humility & Openness,” “Team & Mission First,” and “Joy & Laughter Connect Us.” The company emphasizes kindness, collaboration, and learning from setbacks.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with “Home Week” each quarter to bring in-person and remote team members together. Offices in San Jose, CA; Big Stone City, SD; and remote roles in the U.S.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, 401k match, 16 weeks paid parental leave, comprehensive medical/vision/dental, HSA with employer contribution, subsidized backup childcare/senior care/petcare, mental health support, on-site gym, healthy snacks, and volunteer time off.
- **Engineering & Impact**: Teams work on cutting-edge thermal storage, manufacturing, and field engineering. The company is growing fast (36% headcount growth) and offers the chance to shape a new industry.

## Sources
1. [antora.com](https://www.antora.com/)
2. [antora.com/company](https://www.antora.com/company)
3. [antora.com/careers](https://www.antora.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/antora-energy)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/antora-energy)

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