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

- **Company:** Aircapture
- **Location:** Berkeley, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-03-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aircapture/jobs/4665717006

## 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 thought, education, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation–to reach our goals. Thank you for considering us.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Aircapture, you will be an essential member of our team, collaborating with Electrical and Process Engineers on our R&D efforts and improving installed systems. This is a very exciting time to join Aircapture as we expand our market share and revolutionize Direct Air Capture (“DAC”) technology. If you want to have a major impact at a groundbreaking climate technology startup, this is the role for you!

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

Salary: $165,000-185,000 per year

## What You’ll Do Here

- Design and develop mechanical systems for our next-generation DAC units, impacting the entire product lifecycle: concept, design, build, test, and deployment
- Translate prototypes into scalable, manufacturable systems while collaborating cross-functionally with electrical, controls, and systems teams
- Support field deployments and iterate technology based on real-world performance
- Work with vendors and manufacturing partners to bring systems into production
- Drive engineering rigor through testing, validation, and continuous improvement

## Your Skills and Abilities Include

- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience, Master’s degree a plus
- 7+ years of experience developing and scaling industrial or hardware systems, and a proven track record of taking products from design through build, test, and deployment
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments–we are an early stage start-up and success requires flexibility and a solutions-oriented mindset and attitude
- Ability to operate both strategically and hands-on–you love to design and also don’t hesitate to pick up a wrench
- Strong fundamentals in mechanical design and system integration, including expertise in one or more of these focus areas:
- Experience with computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Background in radio frequency (RF) system design
- Experience with refrigeration or thermal systems
- Familiarity with contract manufacturing
- Experience with gas handling, processing, or liquefaction systems
- Experience with rotating machinery such as fans, compressors, and pumps

This position requires physical activities including climbing stairs or ladders, stooping, crouching to work on equipment, operating machinery and lifting and carrying loads of 50 lbs or more.

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 makes 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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