Junior Chemical Engineer

Are you ready to make a change in the energy transition and have a positive impact on the climate? Join the Unbound Potential (UP) team, a Swiss startup founded in 2023 by a group of passionate engineers, chemists, and economists from ETH Zürich.

We envision a resilient electrified society, independent not only from fossil fuels, but also from critical mined materials, such as Lithium-ion or Vanadium. How can we reach that goal? By developing a disruptive innovative solution: a membrane-less redox flow battery that works exclusively with organic chemistry. Despite the name, our system is the simplest large-scale stationary energy storage you can imagine, usable by energy-intensive industries as well as energy utilities seeking cheap and sustainable energy storage solutions.

As a Junior Chemical Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the development and characterization of membrane-less redox flow battery.

What you will do:

• Setting up and monitoring electrochemical experiments.
• Optimizing KPI evaluation: maximum power, limiting current, coulombic efficiency, energetic efficiency, RTE, self-discharge etc.
• Evaluating data from experiments to formulate reports/presentations and maintain our database.
• Analytics and basic synthesis in the laboratory.
• Preparing solutions and working with hazardous materials, such as acids and organic chemicals.
• Conducting physico-chemical analysis and characterization of electrolytes and electrodes.
• Preparing and maintaining laboratory equipment (potentiostat/galvanostat, pH- conductivity-meter, oven etc.).

What you will bring:

• Master’s degree (Uni/FH) in chemistry/chemical engineering.
• Practical skills and hands on in the chemical laboratory.
• Solution-oriented mindset, willing to do practical work, iteration and testing.
• Optimization of the work routine by implementing protocols.
• Experience in handling analytical equipment and general laboratory equipment.
• Experience with flow batteries or similar systems (desirable but not mandatory).
• Experience in quality control (desirable but not mandatory).
• Strong interest in electrochemical energy conversion systems (desirable but not mandatory).

You are:

• Motivated to work in a dynamic, high-performance, collaborative, young and fun start-up environment.
• Strongly interested in the climate-tech space.
• Independent and detail-oriented.
• Passionate about driving the renewable energy transition.
• Excellent team player.
• Fluent in English; knowledge of German is a plus.

Sounds like you? We are looking forward to meeting you! Send us your CV and Motivation Letter combined in a single PDF using the webpage of Unbound Potential!

Link: https://www.unbound-potential.com/jobs/junior-chemical-engineer-25