I. Company introduction:

Yama is solving the biggest threat humanity ever faced: Climate Change with the ambitious goal to remove a billion tons of CO2 by 2050.

Yama’s purpose is to scale up, industrialize, and launch on the market the lowest energy consumption scalable Direct Air Capture technology.

DAC is a necessary technology to keep the Earth’s temperature below 1.5°C, but today’s processes would consume unsustainable quantities of energy, land, or water if deployed at the required scale. We are solving that.

The technology is based on a novel integration of two CO2 desorption technologies, which allows Yama to undercut the thermodynamic and kinetic limits of existing processes.

Yama is a spin-out from Deep Science Ventures and is funded by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, which was incorporated in May 2023. Yama currently operates in Paris, France.

II. Job General scope:

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.

The role will consist of:

• Contributing to an extensive literature review on solvents for CO2 capture which may be relevant to the Yama process (if needed, designing organic molecules that have the desired characteristics)
• Supporting molecule synthesis (adapted from literature work or from own custom design)
• Supporting screening tests (CO2 absorption kinetics, viscosity, density, conductivity, volatility, stability, …)