About this opportunity
3M HEALTHCARE lists this Director of Test Engineering opportunity in berkeley, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
At Aircapture we’re creating technology to solve what we believe to be our lifetime’s most pressing challenge: the climate crisis. We supply commercial and industrial customers with clean CO₂ captured from our atmosphere to radically improve the environment, our economy, and our lives. We value building a team of people who represent diverse backgrounds—be it through education, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation—to reach our goals. Thank you for considering us.
You will lead the test and validation function that sits at the heart of Aircapture’s path from R&D to commercial technology. Owning system-level performance testing, you will define how we measure and understand our Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems, building a world‑class quality and reliability capability. Performance understanding, repeatability, and reliability are not incidental concerns at Aircapture, they are central to how we learn, improve, and ultimately scale. If you are a hands‑on technical leader who wants to build something lasting at a groundbreaking climate technology company, we want to hear from you.
This role is onsite at our development and production facility in Berkeley, California.
Salary: $190,000-205,000 per year
What You’ll Do Here
Own and operate test labs, developing data and reporting standards across test platforms
Lead and develop a high-performing test and reliability team, setting priorities, driving execution, and establishing best practices as Aircapture scales
Drive system‑level testing of FOAK DAC prototypes, including design envelope and full performance characterization
Define and own system performance metrics, partnering cross‑functionally as the authority on system performance and data interpretation
Responsible for data pipeline for test and operational data, from instrumentation to historian and analysis
Design and implement HALT/ALT testing of components and sub‑systems
Build Aircapture’s quality foundation including repeatability, FAT requirements, and scaling toward manufacturing
Develop data‑driven reliability models, including degradation, design‑life validation, predictive maintenance inputs
Translate test results into actionable feedback loops for design and operations
Your Skills and Experience Include
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or a related field, Master’s preferred
8+ years in test engineering, systems testing, or experimental R&D with end‑to‑end ownership of hardware test programs
Experience managing and developing engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and driving performance in fast‑paced, technical environments
Strong physics‑based understanding of thermofluid and electro‑mechanical systems
Proven ability to define meaningful performance metrics and build systems to measure them
Strong instrumentation and Data Acquisition expertise, coupled with advanced analytical skills and ability to work closely with data engineering
Background in quality/reliability systems, such as FAT, reliability testing, failure analysis, early‑stage QMS
Self‑directed and decisive in ambiguous environments; full ownership from scoping through delivery
Excellent cross‑functional communicator; translates data into insight and pushes back when needed
Bonus: industrial or energy hardware, scaling test/quality functions, reliability engineering or predictive maintenance
Aircapture strives to create a safe, inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace. Every teammate adds to who we are, diversifying our ideas, experiences, and viewpoints and making us stronger.
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Worksite address
berkeley, CA, 94709, US
Who can apply
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