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 of new technology such as membrane treatment 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 researcher, 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.
This is a key role in Yama organisation as working on the heart of the Yama technology.