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title: 'Test Engineer at Aircapture'
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# Test Engineer at Aircapture

- **Company:** Aircapture
- **Location:** Berkeley, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-23
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aircapture/jobs/4696055006

## Job description

At Aircapture, we’re creating and scaling a circular carbon economy to solve what we believe to be the challenge of our lifetime: the climate crisis. We supply commercial and industrial customers with clean CO₂ captured directly from the atmosphere, transforming a climate threat into a valuable resource. Solving a challenge of this scale takes people with different backgrounds, experiences, and ways of thinking. We value those differences and believe they make us a stronger team.

Aircapture is building the next generation of Direct Air Capture machines by iterating through the design-build-test loop to evolve from prototypes to production. You will test at every level, from component-level ALT to full system-level performance and optimization. You have done substantive test work on real systems, take pride in rigorous and reproducible results, and communicate your findings clearly to engineering peers and cross-functional collaborators. If you are a hands-on engineer who wants to do meaningful work at a groundbreaking climate technology company, we want to hear from you.

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

Salary: $130,000-170,000 per year

## What You’ll Do Here

- Conduct system-level testing of our DAC systems, including design envelope testing, performance characterization, and operational optimization
- Help define the metrics that describe system efficiency and performance, bridging the gap between high-level OKRs and design-team deliverables with a physics-based understanding of what our equipment actually does in operation
- Plan and conduct HALT and ALT testing programs in partnership with the design teams to de-risk new design concepts, including developing test objectives, designing fixtures, instrumenting the test rig, executing tests, performing analysis, and delivering clear feedback that informs the design process
- Develop a rigorous, data-driven understanding of equipment and part performance and reliability by characterizing performance degradation over time, validating or challenging design-life assumptions, and using these insights to inform predictive maintenance models and O&M schedules
- Translate test findings into actionable feedback for the design and operations teams, accelerating the feedback loops that drive the development process
- Partner across the organization to develop the data pipeline that moves test and operational data from the telemetry system into dashboards and reports that support engineering decisions

## Your Skills and Abilities Include

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a closely related field. Master’s degree a plus
- 4–8 years of professional experience in test engineering, systems testing, or experimental R&D, with hands-on involvement in test programs on hardware systems, including test execution, instrumentation, and analysis
- Strong instrumentation and data acquisition background, including sensor selection, signal conditioning, DAQ and SCADA systems, and historian platforms, e.g., Ignition, ibaPDA, National Instruments, Keysight, or similar (we use Ignition)
- Hands-on experience with the full test cycle: test objective development, fixture design and build, instrumentation selection and installation, data logging, analysis, and design feedback
- Deep physics-based understanding of thermal, fluid, or electrochemical systems, sufficient to define meaningful performance metrics, identify anomalies in data, and evaluate whether a system is behaving as designed
- Aptitude with Python, JMP, SQL, Excel, or equivalent for data analysis and visualization; able to work alongside data engineers to shape the pipeline and extract meaning from large operational datasets
- Experience establishing quality or reliability systems in a hardware organization, including FAT requirements, reliability test programs, failure mode analysis, and health monitoring of deployed systems
- Proficiency developing performance metrics for complex systems—not just measuring what’s easy, but defining what matters and building the analysis to capture it
- A plus: leadership experience on small teams; project management experience; prior experience with Direct Air Capture, carbon capture, industrial process equipment, or other complex energy or climate hardware; experience scaling a test or quality function from early-stage through commercial production; background in reliability engineering, predictive maintenance, or asset performance management

This position requires physical activities including climbing stairs or ladders, stooping, crouching to work on equipment, operating machinery and lifting and carrying loads of 25 lbs or more.

Aircapture strives to create a safe, inclusive, equitable and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work. 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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