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 membrane specialist in its R&D team to work on a key part of its technology: the ion-exchange membranes.

The role consists in leading the scientific development and the industrialization of the ion-exchange membranes developed by Yama, to support the performance and the scale-up of Yama’s DAC process.

The membrane scientist will be in charge of laboratory developments of ion-exchange membranes, involving membrane design, sample production and characterization. He will also be involved in the industrialization strategy together with the CTO to reach the targeted performances at scale.

This development will be performed in partnership with external companies or R&D partners.