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 a Delaware company with the CTO (Valentin Fougerit) and CEO (Aurélie Gonzalez) based in Paris, France.

II. Job General scope:

Yama is looking for an intern in its R&D team to work on a key part of its technology: the electrochemical stack.

The role will be performing R&D tests on different electrochemical set-ups under the supervision of an Electrochemist engineer.

Concretely, he/she will be in charge of:

• contributing to the development of the experimental plan (influence of cell components, influence of process conditions)
• designing and assembling experimental set-ups
• conducting R&D tests as defined by the experimental plan
• managing and performing related advanced analytical measurements (Total Inorganic Carbon, Eletrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Cyclic Voltammetry)
• depending on the results of the experimental work, he/she may contribute to the process modelling work with a Process Simulation engineer

This development will be performed in partnership with external companies or R&D partners, such as but not limited to: electrochemical technology supplier, academic or private R&D group, membrane manufacturer, external experts…

He/She will report and work closely with the Electrochemist engineer, and occasionally with the CTO.