Senior Mechanical Engineer
Petaluma, CA

Beyond The Dome is seeking a highly talented Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our rapidly growing team.  The Senior Mechanical Engineer will be an essential technical contributor 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, and troubleshoot a wide range of SCWO system components and subsystems

• Provide pilot and field support to the team

• Support the mechanical needs of the lab

• Contribute to long-term manufacturing efforts

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

You:

Does this sound like you? "I am an experienced mechanical engineer with demonstrated design, modeling, and analytical skills who thinks easy is boring. I have several years’ experience supporting critical research, prototyping, and testing activities. I am a value-oriented and detail-oriented, and hands-on engineer, who utilizes engineering fundamentals as much as the latest tools." 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 in Mechanical Engineering or closely related field, and extensive experience with:

• Designing machines, components, and systems, such as engines, pumps, valves, high pressure fittings, similar

• Producing high quality shop drawings (GD&T)

• Supporting industrial R&D, ideally at hardware startups

• Rapid prototyping

• Modeling systems and components using various software packages such Autodesk, SolidWorks, Ansys

• Operating equipment such as manual/CNC mills, lathes, shop tools, similar

• Hands-on operation of equipment such as reactors, heat exchangers, pumps, and instrumentation

• Field pilot operations

• Maintaining detailed records, reports, BOMs, similar

Even better, your background includes: 

• An advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or closely related field

• P.E. license (any state, but ability to get license in California)

• 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 several software/programming, e.g., Python, MATLAB, LabJack/Kipling

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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.