Principal Mechanical Engineer

About Skyven

At Skyven Technologies, we have developed a revolutionary heat pump technology to decarbonize industrial heat and move the needle on climate change. Our technologies have the potential to completely eliminate on-site CO2 emissions from industrial steam. We implement this technology through an innovative Energy-as-a-Service model that provides clean process heat to industrial facilities. We identify, fund, design, build, and install our cutting-edge, decarbonization technologies to help industrial manufacturers reach their sustainability goals, while minimizing their risk and reducing their operational expenses.

Industrial heat is responsible for roughly 20% of global CO2 emissions. That’s roughly equivalent to emissions generated by all transportation (including land, sea, and air) and is a compelling business opportunity – it will take an estimated $3.7 trillion in capital investment to decarbonize the sector by 2050. Skyven is at the forefront of this transformation and has recently been selected for a $145M investment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate the deployment of our state-of-the-art Skyven Arcturus steam-generating heat pumps (SGHPs) at manufacturing facilities nationwide, revolutionizing how we address energy needs while combating climate change.

About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to lead the finalization of Skyven’s heat product design into a completely detailed product ready for procurement and construction. Skyven’s heat pump challenges the conventions of typical, one-off, large industrial systems. Therefore, we need a mechanical engineering leader who understands the analysis requirements of a traditional EPC stick-built design and the productization methods done by product OEMs and is excited to drive these two sides into a robust product platform. 

Responsibilities

• Create piping systems and support designs, pipe stress analysis, and fluid flow analysis
• Identify, document, and apply relevant national, state, and local codes applicable to product design
• Create internal tools and methodology to enable scalable delivery for the creation of detailed design engineering deliverables and calculations
• Perform all detailed design calculations related to non-electrical systems
• Develop tools to allow engineering calculations to scale with lower manpower over time
• Review component and material selections and drive final selections for the product platform
• Identify gaps in engineering specifications and propose new specifications or refinements to drive system standardization, reliability, and scalability
• Create documentation and standard operating procedures (SOP) for mechanical engineering
• Provide subject matter expert (SME) guidance on mechanical engineering topics, including piping, material science, mechanical components, stress analysis, corrosion, and thermoscience
• Validate conceptual product development designs, identifies issues, and advises augmentation
• Review all technical work created by specification engineers on non-electrical selections for technical accuracy
• Review all technical work and deliverables created by mechanical designers for technical accuracy.
• Perform technical reviews on vendor documents and drawing submittals for accuracy and adherence to Skyven specifications
• Create lifecycle estimates on components and systems using analytical methods
• Sign and seal mechanical engineering drawings created by yourself or under your supervision
• Lead team in creation of formal design failure mode and effects analysis (DFMEA) and mitigations, and hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies

Requirements

• B.S. in Mechanical or Structural Engineering or a closely related field
• Active Professional Engineering (P.E.) licensure and willingness to sign and seal mechanical engineering drawings
• 10+ years of post-graduate work experience in the detailed design engineering of one of the following; industrial scale systems, large commercial systems, manufacturing plants, process plants, or modular industrial systems
• Experience in high-temperature process water, steam, and lubrication oil
• Experience creating piping systems and support designs, pipe stress analysis, and fluid flow analysis using hand calculations
• Expert knowledge and application ability of engineering standards applicable to the product design which would include ASME, ANSI, API NACE, etc.
• Able to productize the engineering of industrial systems
• Able to create scalable tools and methods for yourself and others for detailed engineering deliverable creation

Preferred

All preferred listed below are intended to be above and beyond items to enable Skyven to build a diverse and broadly skilled team and are in no way intended to be a substitute for any of the requirements listed above.

• M.S. or above in Mechanical or Structural Engineering or a closely related field
• Past experience working as a lead engineer at an Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) firm or Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) firm on steam and hot process water projects with construction values in the range $20MM - $50MM+
• Intermediate ability with Solidworks, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Electrical
• Expert in one common, object-oriented, programming language
• Expert in Matlab programming
• Ability to design, sign, and seal the structural engineering for a limited number of steel structures; such as modular electrical houses, ladders and walkways, and pressure vessel elevation structures

Benefits

• Base salary: $140,00 - $175,000
• Stock options
• Flexible PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Medical, dental, vision
• 401k

Location

• Fully remote; we are a remote first organization
• Must live in and be authorized to work in the United States
• Occasional travel up to 10-15% annually beginning in 2025