Senior Engineer, Algae Fuel Development

Position Overview:

Partially-reformed WORKAHOLIC wanted to join team of same.  If you are the kind of person who can't leave work until the (neglected) floor is properly swept (by you, since you're the last one working), and you have the calm but relentless get-it-done attitude of a Zen Buddhist monk in her/his garden, then we might have a place for you.

We dream of finding the perfect combination of biochemical engineer, mechanical engineer, process design engineer, who is also enough of a civil engineer to cope with the fact that she/he will be dealing with waste water, sanitation, manure, and biofuels with regulations thick enough in every jurisdiction to choke a hippopotamus after a tonsillectomy.  And we did mean "every" jurisdiction because we have developed some innovations that will make bio-derived fuels a worldwide reality very rapidly, without using any existing food crop, no deforestation, it could even be done with no land used.  If all that sounds too good to be true, you probably haven't enough knowledge of algae to fill these shoes.  If you do, please read on.

We love jatropha curcas too, and we expect to be gasifying sewer sludge along with orchard and municipal landscape trimmings.  We would love YOU to have connections to existing refineries or other sources of carbon dioxide because we'll be "eating" it in unprecedented amounts every day.  But we don't know how to evaluate a turnbuckle's holding capacity, or how to reinforce the walls of our hydroponics units to withstand the stress we'll be putting on them.  Can you figure out the cost of spraying on a hectare of truck bed liner, and whether or not it is a good idea for hydroponic cultivation environments?

Qualifications:

• PEng status preferred but not required.  Biochemists who are not engineers but who are algae experts are welcome to apply.
• University degree required, advanced degree preferred. (But if you are sure you can impress us enough that we won't care about a degree, apply anyway.)
• American or Canadian citizenship preferred, but right to work in USA required.
• North American residence required so we don't get arrested for sending you an encrypted business confidential message.

Compensation: upper 5 figures to lower 6 figures for the right candidate.  Stock options possible. (We hope President Obama will eliminate the need for company health plan, and we'll be helping him see that it happens, too.)

To Apply:

If you can decode what we have been talking about here, and you are looking for a small company with few levels of bureaucracy (like 2) where there's a chance to change the world and for rapid advancement to the top levels, then you might want to talk to us and send us your "resume" (we'd love it if this found you without a resume because you weren't really looking to move, you just couldn't stand not to know more about what we are doing and if it is for you --- so write us an email !)