Decarbonisation Model Engineer (Remote, Equity)

Neutreeno; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days leave

Year-end bonus

Equity stake

Pension with NEST

Private health insurance

Cycle to work

Hybrid work model

Remote travel allowance

Job summary

Neutreeno in Cambridge is seeking a Decarbonisation Model Engineer to lead techno-economic modelling across energy and process technologies. You’ll build system-level models that quantify costs, emissions and value across sites, energy inputs and supply chains.

You’ll write Python models, mentor junior engineers and contribute to a hybrid, fast-moving team solving high-impact decarbonisation challenges for industry.

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in Industrial, Chemical, Process or Mechanical Engineering.
• 3+ years of industry or research experience in techno-economic modelling with a focus on energy and material efficiency.
• Strong system-level thinking to reason about whole systems and identify opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Build bottom-up models from first principles for decarbonisation levers at scale, including cost, dependencies, and time.
• Quantify energy and material efficiency opportunities across heat recovery, electrification, utilities, yield losses and material substitution.
• Develop techno-economic analysis: CAPEX/OPEX, abatement costs, MACCs and sensitivity analyses.
• Develop carbon pricing engine across current pricing landscape and model client exposure under different price scenarios.
• Identify where decarbonisation creates value and potential green premium pricing.
• Write reproducible Python models and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

System-level thinking

Techno-economic modelling

Energy & material efficiency

Strong communication

Education

Master/PhD in Industrial, Chemical, Process or Mechanical Eng

Tools

Python (NumPy, pandas)

Git/GitHub

Excel

Job description

Neutreeno in Cambridge is seeking a Decarbonisation Model Engineer to lead techno-economic modelling across energy and process technologies. You’ll build system-level models that quantify costs, emissions and value across sites, energy inputs and supply chains.

You’ll write Python models, mentor junior engineers and contribute to a hybrid, fast-moving team solving high-impact decarbonisation challenges for industry.