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Principal Controls Engineer
Petaluma, CA

Beyond The Dome is seeking a highly talented Principal Controls Engineer to join our rapidly growing team.  The Principal Controls Engineer will be one of the primary technical contributors to our first product—you will be a critical part of taking the current system all the way to a disruptive product.

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Company:  

Beyond The Dome is building a containerized system that destroys contaminants in water in seconds. We help industries dealing with wastewater meet their climate commitments, generate power, and clean water.  Our ultra-efficient supercritical water oxidation (ultra-SCWOTM) process destroys over 99.9% of organic contaminants within a few seconds, including PFAS, microplastics, and pharmaceuticals, and uses the energy contained within the waste to power the process.  Our long-term goal is to give people access to the best possible wastewater treatment by developing a global network of our ultra-SCWOTM systems.

 

Team:  

We strive to be an incredibly talented, collaborative, and innovative group of people. We are solving a problem with at least a billion-dollar market opportunity, for a customer who is urgently demanding solutions. The solution demands a difficult-but-not-impossible amount of technical innovation to achieve success. We are a well-funded startup pioneering a new product within a space that is ripe for innovation.

 

 

What you’ll do: 

  • Design, build, program, and troubleshoot SCWO system controls and controls hardware

  • Provide pilot and field support to the team

  • Support the electric and controls needs of the lab

  • Contribute to long-term manufacturing efforts

  • Develop strategies to continuously reduce the iteration cycle time, and develop resources to accelerate improvements in performance, cost, and reliability

 

 

You:

Does this sound like you? "I am an experienced, hands-on controls engineer with in-depth knowledge of macrofluidic systems, and have demonstrated analysis and programming skills. I have several years’ experience supporting critical research, testing, and/or design projects. I am value-oriented, detail-oriented  and uses up-to-date controls tools and concepts." Ideally, you come from a fast-paced environment, having completed difficult projects with multidisciplinary groups. You are a persistent blank-page problem solver, troubleshooter, and craftsman.

 

Your background should include a bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical, mechanical, or chemical engineering or related field, and extensive experience with:

 

  • Process control, power generation, combustion, multiphase fluid systems, manufacturing, or closely related fields

  • Hands-on operation and troubleshooting of process equipment such as pumps, heaters, motors, and instrumentation

  • Safety design and implementation

  • Controls and SCADA software packages from Siemens, AB/Rockwell, AVEVA, and more

  • PLC programming languages like ladder logic, structured text, or function blocks

  • Communication protocols like MODBUS or Profinet

  • Controls hardware such as PLC’s, HMI’s, drives, I/O modules, and more

  • Control panel and wiring design

  • Field pilot operations

  • Industrial R&D, ideally at hardware startups

 

Even better, your background includes: 

  • Experience with process and controls simulation

  • A track record of leading and managing growing teams

  • Experience with pressurized and/or hot systems, e.g., SCWO, rockets, oil and gas, nuclear

  • Experience with additional software packages, e.g., Autodesk, SolidWorks, Ansys, Python

 

Beyond The Dome offers competitive salary, equity, generous benefits, and a great work environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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