183 Research jobs

About the company At Swift Solar, we’re building the future of solar. With our core technologies from Stanford, MIT, and NREL, we make better solar panels—lightweight, flexible, more efficient, and more affordable—so solar energy can do more to improve lives and fight climate change.  Swift Solar is a mission-focused startup funded by committed investors. We know it’s a long journey to take a new clean energy technology to market, and we’re in it for the long haul together. If you join us, you’ll play a meaningful role in taking Swift’s impact to the next level. A day in the life As an R&D Scientist at Swift, you will be a key member of the R&D team, developing efficient and stable perovskite tandem solar cells. You will lead our efforts to develop the next generation of solar cell technology by fabricating and optimizing devices to achieve targets for power conversion efficiency, long-term stability, and...

About the company At Swift Solar, we’re building the future of solar. With our core technologies from Stanford, MIT, and NREL, we make better solar panels—lightweight, flexible, more efficient, and more affordable—so solar energy can do more to improve lives and fight climate change.  Swift Solar is a mission-focused startup funded by committed investors. We know it’s a long journey to take a new clean energy technology to market, and we’re in it for the long haul together. If you join us, you’ll play a meaningful role in taking Swift’s impact to the next level. A day in the life As a Mechanical Design Engineer at Swift, you will help us develop, build, and maintain the equipment to create the next generation of solar products. You will work in a fast-paced environment as a core member of the engineering team, and be responsible for the design of mechanical parts and assemblies required for R&D and production equipment....

About the company At Swift Solar, we’re building the future of solar. With our core technologies from Stanford, MIT, and NREL, we make better solar panels—lightweight, flexible, more efficient, and more affordable—so solar energy can do more to improve lives and fight climate change.  Swift Solar is a mission-focused startup funded by committed investors. We know it’s a long journey to take a new clean energy technology to market, and we’re in it for the long haul together. If you join us, you’ll play a meaningful role in taking Swift’s impact to the next level. A day in the life As a Process Engineer at Swift, you’ll play a key role in developing processes for functional ALD layers in perovskite tandem solar cells. You will be responsible for developing processes, characterization protocols, and maintenance procedures for our ALD tools. Your responsibilities will span from R&D experimentation to small-scale...

About the company At Swift Solar, we’re building the future of solar. With our core technologies from Stanford, MIT, and NREL, we make better solar panels—lightweight, flexible, more efficient, and more affordable—so solar energy can do more to improve lives and fight climate change.  Swift Solar is a mission-focused startup funded by committed investors. We know it’s a long journey to take a new clean energy technology to market, and we’re in it for the long haul together. If you join us, you’ll play a meaningful role in taking Swift’s impact to the next level. A day in the life As a Software Engineer at Swift, you will be a member of the Data Systems team, building and maintaining our data infrastructure. You’ll work on responsive, high-performing user interfaces to help researchers explore and analyze hundreds of millions of data points. You’ll also help keep Swift’s data systems running smoothly and...

About the company At Swift Solar, we’re building the future of solar power. With our core technologies from leading groups that have pioneered perovskite solar cell research and a team of enthusiastic and friendly people, we make better solar panels—lightweight, flexible, more efficient, and more affordable—so solar energy can do more to improve lives and fight climate change.  Swift Solar is a mission-focused startup funded by committed investors. We know it’s a long journey to take a new clean energy technology to market, and we’re in it for the long haul together. If you join us, you’ll play a meaningful role in taking Swift’s impact to the next level.  We are committed to doing our best to ensure that every member of the team has a job that they love and an environment that supports them. A day in the life  As a Process Technician at Swift, you will be a core member of the R&D team developing more...

About the company At Swift Solar, we’re building the future of solar power. With our core technologies from leading groups that have pioneered perovskite solar cell research and a team of enthusiastic and friendly people, we make better solar panels—lightweight, flexible, more efficient, and more affordable—so solar energy can do more to improve lives and fight climate change.  Swift Solar is a mission-focused startup funded by committed investors. We know it’s a long journey to take a new clean energy technology to market, and we’re in it for the long haul together. If you join us, you’ll play a meaningful role in taking Swift’s impact to the next level.  We are committed to doing our best to ensure that every member of the team has a job that they love and an environment that supports them. A day in the life  As a Manufacturing Technician at Swift, you will be a core technical team member developing...

About us RightHandGreen is building "climate benefits": software for employers to subsidize EVs, eBikes, renewable electricity, rooftop solar, heat pumps, induction stoves, and more for employees at home. Our mission is to work with corporations to eliminate 1/3rd of total US emissions from employees’ energy use. It's a huge, messy problem, but one that we think software can help solve.  Our co-founders are experienced entrepreneurs who are committed to slowing climate change. We're mission-driven, early in our journey, funded by awesome investors, and looking to bring on core team members to help us scale.  Who we're looking for We're looking for a founding researcher who is committed to scientific integrity and transparency, and who wants to make a meaningful contribution to reducing residential carbon emissions at scale. You will:  Model household carbon emissions, expected costs, and energy usage of a range of decarbonization-focused...

Our Team We are:• optimists who think technology and finance can be powerful forces for good;• self-starters who check our egos at the door; and• practitioners of curiosity, humility, pragmatism, experimentation, and integrity. We have come together to do the best work of our lives in service of combatting the climate crisis. If this resonates with you, please read on! About Evergrow At Evergrow, we seek to build and sustain a carbon-neutral world. We plan to do so by unlocking solutions which reduce 1 gigaton of CO2e by 2030, scaling to 1 gigaton per year every year thereafter. Specifically, we are developing a suite of products and services for decarbonization project developers. We are starting with a financial product that shields developers from carbon credit price volatility, helping them access the capital needed to get their projects off the ground. We will be quickly expanding this suite of products and services so that we can become the ultimate support system for...

RMI is seeking a leader with expertise driving and overseeing a data, analytics, and research team to support RMI’s 13 programs working to solve the climate crisis.   Individuals from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply!  Position Overview   RMI decarbonizes energy systems through rapid, market-based change in the world’s most critical geographies to align with a 1.5°C future and address the climate crisis. We work with businesses, policymakers, communities and other organizations to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50% by 2030.    RMI is a knowledge-based organization, and it is critical for there to be a successful and robust knowledge management competency at the organization to improve the impact of our programs. As part of the KM function, RMI is building out a Data, Analytics, and Research team, including hiring a Manager, to better identify and manage existing data/news/research...

Ready to join a team of visionaries who is dedicated to solving one of humankind’s greatest challenges? Climeworks captures CO₂ from the air to fight global warming and protect future generations to come. We develop, build and operate direct air capture (DAC) machines, which capture CO₂ directly from the air. The air-captured carbon dioxide can either be recycled and reused as a raw material or completely removed from the air by safely storing it underground, permanently. Founded in 2009 by engineers, Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Climeworks was built with the vision to inspire 1 billion people to remove CO₂ from the air, and is now the leader in technological carbon removal. A true climate pioneer, Climeworks is featured as a TIMES100 Influential Company 2022 and Global Cleantech 100 Company 2022, driving a revolutionary technology engineered to solve the most pressing issue of our time. We foster a dynamic environment and are building a global...

We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love. We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many. Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us. What you'll be doing: As a Senior Applied Research Scientist II - Perception, you drive the research projects that address the everyday challenges that happen on urban roads, ones that do not have standard solutions...

Indigo is a company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet. With a vision of creating a world where farming is an economically desirable and accessible profession, Indigo works alongside its growers to apply natural approaches, conserve resources for future generations, and grow healthy food for all. Indigo’s Biological Products, Marketplace, and Carbon offerings improve grower profitability, environmental sustainability, and consumer health. Indigo Marketplace is a platform connecting growers with a network of buyers to secure optimal prices for their crops and offers hands-on control of a grower’s business through a range of pricing tools, real-time national bid discovery, and automated grain sales. Indigo Carbon, is a platform paying growers for increases in soil carbon content and decreases in greenhouse gas emissions. It helps growers realize additional revenue, healthier soils, and a more resilient farm by participation in a market of...

Ready to join a team of visionaries who is dedicated to solving one of humankind’s greatest challenges? Climeworks captures CO₂ from the air to fight global warming and protect future generations to come. We develop, build and operate direct air capture (DAC) machines, which capture CO₂ directly from the air. The air-captured carbon dioxide can either be recycled and reused as a raw material or completely removed from the air by safely storing it underground, permanently. Founded in 2009 by engineers, Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Climeworks was built with the vision to inspire 1 billion people to remove CO₂ from the air, and is now the leader in technological carbon removal. A true climate pioneer, Climeworks is featured as a TIMES100 Influential Company 2022 and Global Cleantech 100 Company 2022, driving a revolutionary technology engineered to solve the most pressing issue of our time. We foster a dynamic environment and are building a global...

We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love. We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many. Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us. What you'll be doing: As a Staff Applied Research Scientist - Perception, you drive the research projects that address the everyday challenges that happen on urban roads, ones that do not have standard solutions...

Gridware is on a mission to create a future without deadly wildfires. We’re a startup building hardware and software that monitors the power grid to prevent and detect faults that lead to wildfire ignition . (More about Gridware below). To make that happen, we’re currently looking for a mechanical research engineer to join our growing team. Why do we need you? We’re manufacturing and deploying our first fleet of critical infrastructure monitoring devices to detect real world fault events that lead to wildfires. As an early team member you will have the opportunity to set the foundation for at-edge systems for protecting the power grid and preventing the next big blaze. The research you do and prototypes that you build will change the capabilities of our system which will, in turn, influence how the grid is designed, operated, and upgraded. You’ll work side-by-side with a highly driven team of mechanical/electrical/software engineers, researchers, and data...

Why Finch : Finch is a platform that decodes products’ environmental impacts to help consumers make better purchasing decisions.  About This Role : To achieve our ambitious goals, we are looking for a mission-driven Sustainability Scientist to join Finch’s founding team. The ideal candidate will be a versatile, resilient scientist with experience in academic research who is excited to translate the evidence base into actionable insights. Bring your scientific chops and innate curiosity and we’ll get you up to speed on consumer-facing software and startup life. It’s very exciting! In this role, you will be a key driver in helping achieve our company vision of making it easier for brands and consumers to live sustainably by leading our product strategy and managing technical execution.  Who We’re Looking For: We’re looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial environmental scientist to further develop and maintain...

About our Company Equilibrium Energy is a well-funded, Series A clean energy startup backed by some of the most prominent institutional investors in climate. We are building a digital native power company operating at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Our mission is to accelerate our collective path to climate, energy, and societal equilibriums. Our goal is to become one of the next-generation, digital-native, end-to-end global clean power companies that reshapes the energy industry. New colleagues will share our vision that a next-generation energy company must be built from the ground up on deep industry expertise combined with an unwavering commitment to modern digital approaches. We design our commercial strategies, operational approaches, and product suites so as to best leverage data-driven insights, automated workflows, ML-infused pipelines,...

Running Tide is an ocean technology company built to tackle humanity's most urgent challenge: climate change. We build cutting-edge solutions that integrate engineered and biological systems to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, restore ecosystems, and secure food systems. Our multidisciplinary team of world-class scientists, engineers, and maritime operators is working as fast as possible while the world is burning. Our Agronomy team is developing technology for scalable production, deployment, and offshore growth of modular macroalgal cultivation systems as a central part of Running Tide’s carbon sequestration platform. We’re looking for a Research Scientist/Engineer to help establish, maintain, and further develop novel macroalgal cultivars amenable to these systems in our newly renovated containerized hatchery facility based in Akranes, Iceland. This role will primarily focus on developing carbon-dense, high-productivity stock cultures of macroalgae within the Agronomy program,...

It's a Perfect Day to change the world! At Perfect Day, we're doing just that. Perfect Day was founded in 2014 to create delicious, nutritious dairy products that everyone can love. We’re using fermentation (not animals) to make dairy proteins that are the foundation for foods like ice cream, cheese and yogurt – all with the distinctive taste and textures that consumers demand, but without lactose or environmental downsides. Through partnerships with respected brands, we’re working to launch a whole range of dairy products that will help shape a humane, sustainable food system for future generations.  Perfect Day is continuing to commercialize animal-free dairy protein ingredients and we are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Research Associate to join our team. The food team is a fast-paced and multi-disciplinary group and we love to collaborate and solve puzzles! As the newest member of the Food Discovery group in our Food Innovations team, you will characterize and develop new...

Who You Are  You’re a hands-on engineer energized by ownership of your design decisions. You understand how every mechanical part you design, every fitting you specify, and every line of code you write is a commitment. You’re thorough and don’t leave loose ends dangling. You’re excited when the things you build outlast you. You excel at translating loosely-defined scientific requests into rigorous, deterministic machines that help unlock technical truth. You bring pragmatism and a daily sense of urgency to your work. When you see hardware in the wild, you always wonder, “could I build this better?” When things don’t go as planned, you excel at reducing problems to their underlying physical phenomena and finding solutions everyone can trust. You’re a skilled listener and communicator, which helps you interface with a wide range of people, from chemists to pipe fitters. You’re relentless in eliminating sources of drift and uncertainty. Responsibilities & Duties...