Test Engineer

Pascal develops solid refrigerant technologies for cooling a warming world. 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 and engineering.

What You’ll Do: Mission Critical Experimentation and Performance Validation

As an early-stage technology developer we need to quickly find the right paths forward. This often means doing experiments and building prototypes to assess the viability of a potential solution. This experimentation leads to design concepts which then need to be systematically validated. Pascal is seeking an early career test engineer who can work in both of these modes.

• Collaborating with material scientists and engineers to design experimental equipment and procedures.
• Executing exploratory experiments and debugging rapidly built prototypes.
• Planning and executing structured experiments to determine compliance with design targets.
• Data analysis using advanced statistics and data processing techniques.
• Planning and executing long term test campaigns and distilling out the knowledge generated.
• Reporting and discussing both the recent results and long-term learnings with the extended technical team.

• Experience in experimentation in a materials science, thermal engineering or chemistry environment.
• Familiarity with product validation and certification test programs.
• Ability to design experiments and analyze data using statistical approaches
• Experience with various data acquisition and controls platforms including industrial PLCs ( Beckhoff) but also more laboratory-oriented systems such as LabJack, Arduino, National Instruments, etc.
• Comfort with the culture of advanced hardware technology development start-ups.
• Open-ended problems
• Rapid change cycles
• Directional and aspirational goals rather than precise specifications and targets
• A hunger to learn and solve problems in new technology fields
• Familiarity with precision gas handling equipment, heat exchangers, fluid state and flow measurements, and controls