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 been incorporated in May 2023. Yama a Delaware company with the CTO (Valentin Fougerit) and CEO (Aurélie Gonzalez) based in Paris, France.

Yama fundraise several millions form top US and EU investors.

II. Job General scope:

Yama is looking for its first key collaborator to make it a reality.

The position consists of supporting the CTO in leading in engineering technological development to increase TRL level of the DAC technology from an actual TRL of 4 up to a TRL of 5/6 the first year (and then TRL 8 in the following years).

Concretely, the “Process engineer” will be in charge of the pilot FEED study and project management of 1 tonne / day pilot plant (budget in the range of 3-5m$).

This development will be performed in partnership with external companies, such as but not limited to: electrochemical technology supplier, absorption system (so called air contactor) manufacturer, compression train supplier, an engineering contractor…

The role reports and work closely with the CTO on the industrialisation strategy.

This is a key role in Yama organisation as working on the assembling of the full Yama technology.

III. Main achievements/Missions/Objectives:

The main responsibilities of the Process engineer would be:

• Lead the project management of Yama’s pilot unit (planning, budget) for a commissioning in summer 2025. It involves:
  • the definition of project development strategy
  • the management of internal and external resources (engineering services, equipment suppliers…)