Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
I. Company introduction:
Yama is solving the biggest threat humanity ever faced: Climate Change with the ambitious goal to remove a billion tons of CO2 by 2050.
Yama’s purpose is to scale-up, industrialize and launch on the market the lowest energy consumption scalable Direct Air Capture technology.
DAC is a necessary technology to keep the Earth’s temperature below 1.5°C, but today’s processes would consume unsustainable quantities of energy, land or water if deployed at the required scale. We are solving that.
The technology is based on a novel integration of two CO2 desorption technologies, which allows Yama to undercut the thermodynamic and kinetic limits of existing processes.
Yama is a spin out from Deep Science Ventures, and is funded by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, which was been incorporated in May 2023. Yama a Delaware company with the CTO (Valentin Fougerit) and CEO (Aurélie Gonzalez) based in Paris, France.
Yama fundraise several millions form top US and EU investors.
II. Job General scope:
Yama is looking for its first key collaborator to make it a reality.
The position consists of supporting the Senior Process Engineer in engineering developments involved to increase TRL level of the DAC technology from an actual TRL of 4 up to a TRL of 5/6 the first year (and then TRL 8 in the following years).
Concretely, the “Junior Process Engineer” will be contributing to pilot FEED study of 1 tonne / day pilot plant (budget in the range of 3-5m$).
This development will be performed in partnership with external companies, such as but not limited to: electrochemical technology supplier, absorption system (so called air contactor) manufacturer, compression train supplier, an engineering contractor…
The role reports and work closely with the Senior Process Engineer (& CTO) on the industrialisation strategy.
This is a key role working on the assembly of the full Yama technology.
III. Main achievements/Missions/Objectives:
The main responsibilities of the Junior Process Engineer would be:
- Contribute to FEED study for pilot (production of PFD, P&ID, pilot sketch, equipment nomenclature…)
- Size and define equipment specifications, send inquiry to suppliers, perform quotation and technical documentation analysis
- Sexternal engineering contractors for the pilot assembly
- Lead the development of the model for Yama complete process in collaboration with the R&D team (including transfer to dedicated process software - e.g. AspenPlus)
- Contribute to the process scale-up strategy (taking inputs from the R&D team and providing directions for R&D developments) and secure technico-economic assessment at industrial scale
IV - Position Benefits
The position will offer a very high level of autonomy.
The position will offer the opportunity to make a practical contribution to mitigating the climate crisis. This is a key role in Yama organisation with opportunities to step up in engineering manager role.
The location is in the center of Paris.
Attractive package including benefits (health, transport, food tickets)
Permanent position (C.D.I).
