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Travertine is a climate tech start-up based in Boulder, CO that is rapidly scaling an electrochemical technology for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and sustainable critical element extraction. Our process takes carbon dioxide from the air and sources of waste sulfate to produce carbonate minerals, sulfuric acid, and hydrogen. The sulfuric acid is used in industrial applications such as extracting critical elements like lithium and nickel for EV batteries and phosphorus for fertilizer. The Travertine process was developed by Prof. Laura Lammers at her UC Berkeley lab. Travertine was founded in 2022 to scale this process to gigatons per year of CDR.
In 2022, we raised a seed round from the Grantham Foundation and Clean Energy Ventures. We were one of the first companies to receive pre-purchases of CDR from the new Stripe-led $1B Frontier fund, and we received a $2M grant from the DOE’s ARPA-E program. We were also named C&EN 10 startups to watch in 2022 and a finalist for the Bloomberg NEF Pioneers award in 2023. We believe in developing practical approaches to solving the climate crisis.
The Role
We are looking for an ambitious Geochemical Technician to be the lead research technician for our Department of Energy ARPA-E MINER grant. A little bit about the grant program from the DOE:
The Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resources (MINER) program seeks to increase the U.S. domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, and other rare earth elements. These minerals are critical during the transition to clean sources of energy, such as wind and solar. The MINER program will fund the technology research that increases the mineral yield while decreasing the required energy, and subsequent emissions, to mine and extract these energy-relevant minerals. Specifically, the program will investigate the potential CO2-reactive ores to unlock net-zero or net-negative emission technologies.
Travertine is proud to be a recipient of a grant within the MINER program, and we are excited to bring on an early-career geochemist to help execute this research.
This role will assist senior technical staff with building and operating bench and pilot-scale systems as well as collecting and analyzing samples and data from running these systems. This role will also interface with external academic collaborators and mining companies on sampling and analysis protocols and execution. Critical to this role will be organization, detailed recording and presentation of results, maintaining lab safety, and problem solving.
Responsibilities
This role will be working on R&D related to our ARPA-E MINER grant, which will involve a variety of responsibilities and tasks. Key responsibilities are listed below:
Qualifications
This role is based in our headquarters in Boulder, CO.
Salary range is $50,000-$70,000/yr depending on experience.
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance
- Optional 401k
- Flexible time off policy
Travertine is a climate tech start-up based in Boulder, CO that is rapidly scaling an electrochemical technology for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and sustainable critical element extraction. Our process takes carbon dioxide from the air and sources of waste sulfate to produce carbonate minerals, sulfuric acid, and hydrogen. The sulfuric acid is used in industrial applications such as extracting critical elements like lithium and nickel for EV batteries and phosphorus for fertilizer. The Travertine process was developed by Prof. Laura Lammers at her UC Berkeley lab. Travertine was founded in 2022 to scale this process to gigatons per year of CDR.
In 2022, we raised a seed round from the Grantham Foundation and Clean Energy Ventures. We were one of the first companies to receive pre-purchases of CDR from the new Stripe-led $1B Frontier fund, and we received a $2M grant from the DOE’s ARPA-E program. We were also named C&EN 10 startups to watch in 2022 and a finalist for the Bloomberg NEF Pioneers award in 2023. We believe in developing practical approaches to solving the climate crisis.
The Role
We are looking for an ambitious Geochemical Technician to be the lead research technician for our Department of Energy ARPA-E MINER grant. A little bit about the grant program from the DOE:
The Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resources (MINER) program seeks to increase the U.S. domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, and other rare earth elements. These minerals are critical during the transition to clean sources of energy, such as wind and solar. The MINER program will fund the technology research that increases the mineral yield while decreasing the required energy, and subsequent emissions, to mine and extract these energy-relevant minerals. Specifically, the program will investigate the potential CO2-reactive ores to unlock net-zero or net-negative emission technologies.
Travertine is proud to be a recipient of a grant within the MINER program, and we are excited to bring on an early-career geochemist to help execute this research.
This role will assist senior technical staff with building and operating bench and pilot-scale systems as well as collecting and analyzing samples and data from running these systems. This role will also interface with external academic collaborators and mining companies on sampling and analysis protocols and execution. Critical to this role will be organization, detailed recording and presentation of results, maintaining lab safety, and problem solving.
Responsibilities
This role will be working on R&D related to our ARPA-E MINER grant, which will involve a variety of responsibilities and tasks. Key responsibilities are listed below:
Qualifications
This role is based in our headquarters in Boulder, CO.
Salary range is $50,000-$70,000/yr depending on experience.
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance
- Optional 401k
- Flexible time off policy
