Start date target / latest: October 2026
Mission / role summary: Lead the long-term vision, technical strategy, industrialization roadmap, and scaling of the biomineralization platform. Act as a senior technical leader (potential co-founder) capable of bridging science, process, commercialization, and scale-up execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the technical roadmap from pilot stage to industrial deployment, ensuring robustness, cost competitiveness, and scalability.

• Oversee all R&D, process engineering, scale-up, automation, operations, and technology risk.

• Own and validate technology choices (reactor designs, process flows, instrumentation, process intensification).

• Drive cross-functional integration: aligning R&D, analytical / geochemistry, engineering, operations, QA, and commercialization.

• Identify and mitigate key technical risks; lead failure root-cause investigations and corrective strategies.

• Define and oversee technology transfer to manufacturing / industrial partners or internal scale plants.

• Build and lead the technical team: recruiting, mentoring, structuring functions for growth.

• Participate actively in fundraising, technical due diligence, investor engagements, and IP / patent strategy.

• Ensure that technical decisions align with business goals, cost models, margins, and carbon credit / certification outcomes.

• Keep abreast of scientific and technological advances in biomineralization, carbon removal, reactor engineering, and adjacent fields.

Requirements / Profile

• PhD or equivalent experience in bioprocessing, environmental engineering, chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, or a related field.

• Strong track record (10+ years or equivalent) in developing, scaling, and industrializing complex bio / chemical or mineralization systems.

• Experience in bridging lab-scale innovation to pilot / industrial scale, with deep understanding of process engineering, automation, reliability.

• Proven leadership and team management ability in R&D / engineering contexts.

• Strong strategic thinking: ability to prioritize technical investments under constraints.

• Experience working with external stakeholders: investors, partners, certification bodies, manufacturing partners.

• Excellent communication skills (technical and non-technical), able to act as a technical ambassador for the company.

• Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable in ambiguity, capable of hands-on leadership in a lean startup environment.

• Understanding of the carbon removal / carbon credit space, MRV, certification, regulatory constraints is a strong plus.