Senior Development Engineer (80100%)

Climeworks

📍 Opfikon, Zurich, Switzerland

Full-time ATS Posted February 26, 2026

Job Description

  • Collector Concepts Development: As part of the Concepts & Innovation team, you invent, design, and develop new CO₂ collector system architectures that integrate sorbent and process requirements into practical, manufacturable equipment. 

  • Prototyping: You prototype and test your concepts and sub-systems, taking a hands-on approach from early proof of concept to final acceptance testing. You design and execute experiments to validate concepts, troubleshoot issues, and optimize designs. 

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: You work closely with our in-house sorbent and process experts, as well as system engineers, to align material and process properties with mechanical implementation. By developing a deep understanding of sorbent and process performance, you invent new ways of implementing them into collectors. You contribute to the scale-up from lab to pilot to indu...