Engineering Lead - Downstream Processes (BH0111)

About Charm

Our mission is to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO₂. We convert excess inedible biomass into carbon-rich bio-oil and inject it into underground storage for permanent carbon removal. At scale we can use bio-oil to make fossil-free iron.

Our carbon removal pathway took off in 2020 with initial purchases from customers like Stripe, Shopify & Microsoft. Since then we’ve scaled to thousands of tons of carbon removal, over a hundred employees, and now have three locations in San Francisco, Colorado, and Kansas. Come join us in 2024 as we aim to become one of the first companies to put 10,000 tons of carbon back underground!

We're looking to expand our team of ambitious creative and hands-on forward-thinking humans. We value psychological safety and collaboration. We take calculated risks and don't sweep mistakes under the rug; instead, we pin them to the wall and learn from them. We value that everyone’s unique backgrounds and perspectives shape their work. We encourage you to read our company values.

Come help us reverse climate change. Gigatons or bust!

• Charm’s core competency is producing and injecting bio oil as a form of carbon dioxide sequestration.  
• Injecting bio oil is a completely new field, and we need an engineering lead who is excited to work with a cross-functional group of folks (think geologists, logistics, engineers, automation, verification team) to lead the process development for injecting bio oil for all of our well sites.
• Your primary objective is to get to a working injection process for every type of pyrolysis oil that we produce, for every well that we have a permit for.  Once the process is working, you’ll shift to burning down cost until we’re achieving bio oil injection at the lowest cost in every geography.
• This role will report to our Head of Engineering and interface cross functionally with both our operations and research teams.

• Develop and continue to improve processes for the safe and permanent injection of bio oil at a variety of different injection sites, each with different permitting and geological requirements.  To do so, utilize both our lab analysis and small-scale version of our 
• Drive clarity on the process steps that are necessary for Charm to achieve our permanent storage, and be able to articulate those to both the Charm team at large and any external parties.
• Spin up an external EPC to build and commission commercial scale processing systems for the bio-oil pumping, storage and transloading facilities at injection pads to ensure safe and efficient movement of bio-oil through necessary processing steps to the wellbore.
• Use both internal and external Charm resources to drive COGS for injection down as low as possible once the process is stable at any new site.
• You will be expected to travel as needed to ensure that our injection sites are stood up and commissioned, and handed off to our operations engineering team appropriately.

• Experience developing new processes that require a strong first principles understanding of the process and the ability to articulate that first principles understanding to external stakeholders who are approving the new process for production (think: regulators, our leadership team, external stakeholders).
• An ability to scale those new processes from bench top through commercial scale in a matter of months, utilizing both internal and external resources to make the impossible timelines possible.
• An unrelenting attention to safety, including the entire pyramid of engineering controls.

• The anticipated salary range is $150,000 - $200,000, dependent on factors such as experience within the job, within the industry, education, location, etc
• Stock options
• Health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Traditional and Roth 401(k)
• Paid time off, including parental leave
• A yearly professional development stipend
• Healthy snacks and lunches at a sweet workplace with lots of space inside and out
• A chance to pivot into a role in climate!

• Since we are a small startup, certain accommodations for visa sponsorship may not be within our capability. At this time, Charm Industrial is only sponsoring E3 and TN visas.

What We Offer

· Stock options

· Health benefits (medical, dental, vision)

· Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 50% match on contributions up to 6%

· Paid time off, including parental leave

· A yearly professional development stipend

· Healthy snacks and lunches for onsite employees

· A sweet workplace with lots of space inside and out

· A chance to pivot into a role in climate!

Visa Sponsorship Policy

Since we are a small startup, certain accommodations for visa sponsorship may not be within our capability. At this time, Charm Industrial is only sponsoring E3 and TN visas.

Our Commitment

Charm Industrial is an equal opportunity employer with a firm commitment to growing our team in an inclusive way, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, medical condition, age, or veteran status. The consequences of climate change inherently affect some more than others, and we need a diverse team to help us save our little planet most effectively & justly. We are excited about all of those who choose to apply, and for those who end up joining us, to see how you better us as a team and company. We are more than the sum of our parts.