Snr. Process Engineer

Your mission

Your mission is to own process engineering across our key development projects — from our First‑of‑a‑Kind facility to the next stages of scale‑up. You'll ensure that process design decisions are well‑founded, consistently documented, and aligned across teams, while keeping a clear line of sight from today's engineering work to tomorrow's commercial plant.

Key points

• Own and drive process engineering across all active development projects
• Lead process safety, HAZOP, and regulatory compliance
• Manage engineering change and design documentation across the project lifecycle

Skills & Experience

• Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of process engineering experience, with a strong track record of leading or coordinating engineering work across multiple projects
• Proven experience managing engineering change — from design updates and deviation handling to formal change control processes
• Solid background in process safety, including HAZOP facilitation, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance
• Strong command of process engineering documentation standards: PFDs, P&IDs, H&MBs, valve and pipe sizing, and safety reviews
• Experience working with simulation teams or external technical partners to align models with design requirements
• Familiarity with novel or first‑of‑a‑kind process development environments is a strong plus

Workstyle and culture

• Thinks in systems and owns outcomes — not just tasks
• Fast learner who quickly grasps complex topics and stays curious about the problem, not just the solution
• Combines scientific rigour with pragmatic, hands‑on, build‑and‑learn instincts
• Authentic, reflective, and self‑organised — brings structure without losing speed
• Comfortable with ambiguity and effective at working across cross‑functional teams
• Clear and direct communicator with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, with strong active listening skills

Other

• Valid Work Permit for Germany, or able to obtain a permit
• Location: Exiting industrial Co‑Working Space in Marzahn where we have our own industrial halls to build

Benefits

• Unique experience contributing to a first‑of‑a‑kind climate‑tech project (tFOAK).
• A steep learning curve, exposure to cross‑functional challenges, and the ability to shape a project from the ground up.
• Fast‑paced, collaborative environment where your decisions have a real impact.
• Competitive compensation and personal growth opportunities.
• Employee stock options
• Learning and development Budget
• Regular team events
• Subsidized BVG ticket
• Laptop and your individual work set up

About Us

We are an early startup with a big vision - remove 500 million tons of global CO2 emissions from the air by 2035 through Direct Air Capture, roughly the same weight as all humans on earth combined!

To meet our climate targets the reduction of CO2 emissions is not enough, the world actively has to remove billions of tons of CO2 from our atmosphere. To achieve that we at Ucaneo develop an innovative electrochemical Direct Air Capture technology mimicking the human lung to remove CO2 from ambient air.

We are a science and mission‑driven team, fast‑moving with a break‑or‑make attitude. Our office and industrial hall is located at Schwarze‑Pumpe‑Weg 16, 12681 Berlin including a large outdoor area to build one of the largest industrial DAC plants in Germany.

Our commitment to you

• Impact: You will work on the biggest problem of our time, climate change, with the potential to impact the lives of billions of people
• Day to day: Full responsibility to design your own workstream and control your working hours with a very high degree of freedom, flat hierarchy and teamwork
• Professional growth: Join a disruptive high‑growth tech startup from day 1 and grow / lead a high‑performing team