Yama is tackling the greatest challenge of our time: Climate Change. Our mission is to remove 1 billion tons of CO2 by 2050 through the development of the most energy-efficient and scalable Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology.
DAC is essential to limit global warming to 1.5°C, but current technologies are resource-intensive and unsustainable at scale. At Yama, we’ve innovated a game-changing approach that integrates two CO2 desorption technologies, breaking through thermodynamic and kinetic barriers to enable scalable and affordable CO2 removal.
Founded in May 2023, Yama is a Delaware-incorporated spinout from Deep Science Ventures, supported by the Grantham Foundation and backed by top-tier US and EU investors. Based in Paris, France, our leadership team—CEO Aurélie Gonzalez and CTO Valentin Fougerit—are driving this bold climate mission forward.
Join us to help build a tech-driven solution to save the planet.
Yama is looking for a chemistry intern in its R&D team to work on a key part of its technology: solvent design and development.
The role will support the R&D team on experiments and defining the tech roadmap on solvent choices and development with the Chemist and Absorption Process Engineer.
Concretely, he/she will be in charge of:
The industrialization pathway is essential to Yama. Therefore, developments on solvents must always be related to technical-economic analysis at an industrial scale: production method, production capacity, availability of raw materials, and cost of production.
This development will be performed under the guidance of the Chemist and Absorption Engineer, in partnership with external companies or R&D partners, such as but not limited to: suppliers, academic or private R&D group, and external experts.
He/She will report and work closely with the Chemist and Absorption Process Engineer, and occasionally with the CTO.
This is a key role in Yama organisation as working on the heart of the Yama technology.