Research Engineer

Rivan Industries (Rivan.com) is a synthetic fuel company designed to decarbonise heavy industry. We aim to make synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels and sustain life on earth by keeping the CO2 locked underground. We design and manufacture modular synthetic fuel plants consisting of a DAC system, an Alkaline Electrolyser, and a Sabatier Reactor, whilst vertically integrating with off-grid DC solar and the European gas-grid. We’ve recently deployed the UK’s largest synthetic fuel plant and are planning to 1000x this scale in the next 2 years. Rivan is bottlenecked by experimental throughput and insight. We need someone who can own experiments end-to-end, design rigs, run tests, debug issues, and extract clear conclusions from messy data. You won’t just run experiments. You will decide what to test, how to test it, and how to improve the system. The role includes owning the design, build and operation of lab and bench-scale rigs, planning and executing experimental campaigns, debugging issues, improving test methods, analysing data, and working closely with modelling and design teams.