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Snr Automation Engineer

Berlin
Full-time
Permanent employee

Your mission

You'll own the PLC software architecture and control logic across our full DAC system — from sensor integration and process sequencing to safety interlocks and automated data acquisition. You'll translate process engineering requirements into reliable, scalable TIA Portal code and define the automation standards that will carry us from our tFOAK pilot into commercial-scale deployment. Your work is the nervous system of our plant: without it, nothing runs.

A rare opportunity to shape industrial automation from scratch at the frontier of climate-tech — with real ownership, real complexity, and real impact.

Your profile

Skills & Experience
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field
  • 5+ years of hands-on PLC programming, with strong proficiency in Siemens TIA Portal and S7-1500
  • Experience integrating process instrumentation (flow, pressure, pH, conductivity, temperature) into automated control loops
  • Familiarity with PROFINET, Modbus, or OPC-UA
  • Experience with SCADA/HMI development (WinCC, Ignition, or similar)
  • Bonus: exposure to electrochemical systems, water treatment, or specialty gas processes
Workstyle and culture
  • Thinks in systems and owns outcomes — not just tasks
  • Fast learner who quickly grasps complex topics and stays curious about the problem, not just the solution
  • Combines scientific rigour with pragmatic, hands-on, build-and-learn instincts
  • Authentic, reflective, and self-organised — brings structure without losing speed
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and effective at working across cross-functional teams
  • Clear and direct communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, with strong active listening skills
Other
  • Valid Work Permit for Germany, or able to obtain a permit
  • Location: Exiting industrial Co-Working Space in Marzahn where we have our own industrial halls to build

Benefits

  • Unique experience contributing to a first-of-a-kind climate-tech project (tFOAK).
  • A steep learning curve, exposure to cross-functional challenges, and the ability to shape a project from the ground up.
  • Fast-paced, collaborative environment where your decisions have a real impact.
  • Competitive compensation and personal growth opportunities.
  • Employee stock options
  • Learning and development Budget
  • Regular team events
  • Subsidized BVG ticket
  • Laptop and your individual work set up

About us

We are an early startup with a big vision - remove 500 million tons of global CO2 emissions from the air by 2035 through Direct Air Capture, roughly the same weight as all humans on earth combined!

To meet our climate targets the reduction of CO2 emissions is not enough, the world actively has to remove billions of tons of CO2 from our atmosphere. To achieve that we at Ucaneo develop an innovative electrochemical Direct Air Capture technology mimicking the human lung to remove CO2 from ambient air.

We are a science and mission-driven team, fast-moving with a break-or-make attitude. Our office and industrial hall is located at Schwarze-Pumpe-Weg 16, 12681 Berlin including a large outdoor area to build one of the largest industrial DAC plants in Germany.

Our commitment to you:
  • Impact: You will work on the biggest problem of our time, climate change, with the potential to impact the lives of billions of people
  • Day to day: Full responsibility to design your own workstream and control your working hours with a very high degree of freedom, flat hierarchy and teamwork
  • Professional growth: Join a disruptive high-growth tech startup from day 1 and grow / lead a high-performing team