Test Engineer

We are reinventing cooling for the next generation. Heating, cooling, and refrigeration technologies are critical to modern life but use nearly 40% of all energy generated today, release potent greenhouse gas refrigerants to the atmosphere, and are too expensive to be adopted worldwide. This has to change, and fast, so Pascal’s working to better refrigeration (and air conditioning and heat pumps) through materials science.

We’re a group of materials scientists and engineers, based in Cambridge, MA, looking to upend the 150 year old HVACR industry and lead a transition to solid refrigerants. These new materials can unlock a massive efficiency boost over conventional systems, saving our customers money while reducing electrical load and eliminating refrigerant emissions. But getting there requires us to fundamentally redesign the air conditioner and we need your help.

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• Collaborate with Pascal's materials scientists and engineers to design experimental equipment and develop test procedures
• Execute exploratory experiments and debug rapidly built prototypes
• Plan and execute structured experiments to determine compliance with design targets
• Analyze test data using advanced statistics and data processing techniques
• Develop long-term test campaigns and distill out the generated knowledge
• Report and discuss recent results and long-term learnings with the extended technical team

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Skills and knowledge:

• Experience in product validation and certification test programs
• Proven track record of experimentation in a materials science/chemistry environment
• Experience with various data acquisition and controls platforms including:
  
  • Industrial PLCs (Beckhoff)
  • Laboratory oriented systems such as LabJack, Arduino, National Instruments etc.
• Familiarity with precision gas handling equipment, heat exchangers, fluid state and flow measurements, and controls

Essential traits for succeeding at advanced hardware development startups:

• Comfortable working on open-ended problems
• Comfortable with rapidly-changing goals and priorities
• Able to work with directional/aspirational goals rather than precise targets/specs
• Hungry to learn and solve problems in a new technology field
• Excited to work in a collaborative development environment