Chemical Engineer

Nebula; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Health, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k) with company matching

On-site work

Performance-based rewards

Job summary

Nebula in El Segundo seeks chemical, process or mechanical engineers to design and run fluid systems that condition and deliver particle-loaded and polymer process fluids to a deposition head. You will own the system from piping and instrumentation diagrams to hardware validated on a bench rig and launched to the line.

Every role works with our AI systems daily; no AI background required. We offer equity in a company poised to become one of the world’s most valuable, plus comprehensive health

Job description

What to Expect

Your role is to design and run the fluid systems that condition and deliver particle-loaded and polymer process fluids to a deposition head. Formulation belongs to the materials engineers; how those fluids behave belongs to you.

That is supply and recirculation hardware, pressure budgeting and closed-loop meniscus control, the behavior of a suspension in service, and the operating modes, fill through flush, that wrap around all of it.

You will own the next generation of that system, from piping and instrumentation diagrams to hardware validated on a bench rig, and carry it from the first machine out to a line.

We are looking for chemical and process engineers with experience and interest in fluid systems and precision low-pressure control, suspensions and rheology in service, degassing and filtration, and scale-up to a line.

Every role works with our AI systems daily. What can be deterministic, must be. You need no AI background; we prefer people without one. We hire for your knowledge and experience in the field first, so you can steer the ship; the tooling is a learning curve we expect you to take on.

We work on-site in El Segundo. This is hard work, but you will be rewarded with equity in a company we believe will become one of the world's most valuable.

What You'll Do

• Fluid delivery and recirculation design: piping and instrumentation diagrams, tanks, pumps, dampers, regulators, valves
• Wetted path and elastomer compatibility behind every component selection
• Meniscus and back-pressure control: regulated vacuum reference, transducers, closed-loop setpoint and ripple, capillary window
• Pressure budgeting: laminar line loss, tube sizing, static head, ripple attenuation, pump trade-offs
• Air and particulate management: degassing, dissolved gas, in-line filtration, bubble ingestion, nozzle health
• Particle-loaded fluids in service: sedimentation, agitation, turnover and residence time, shear and agglomeration
• Fluid properties at operating conditions: viscosity, surface tension, density, particle size, and jettability
• Operating modes and scale-up: fill, prime, purge and flush choreography, bench validation, waste handling

What You'll Bring

• A degree in chemical, process or mechanical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Hands-on design or operation of fluid handling systems: pumps, regulators, valves, tubing and instrumentation
• Fluid mechanics used for real: pressure budgets, laminar line loss, mixing, turnover and residence time
• Fluent with viscosity, surface tension, density and particle size measurement, and able to explain a result
• The judgment to take a bubble, a leak or a settled line back to its cause
• Ready to take a system from a diagram to installed hardware and write the operating procedures
• Bonus: precision dispensing, drop-on-demand deposition, microfluidics, or suspensions and colloid handling at working scale

Expected Compensation

$100k to $250k base salary, plus equity

• Equity participation in a high-growth startup
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company matching
• Bonus for living within 5 miles of our El Segundo facility
• On-site work with rare work-from-home exceptions
• Merit-based organization where contribution drives reward