Founding Hydrometallurgical Engineer | Scale-Up & Automation

Riven Systems; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Riven Systems seeks a Hydrometallurgical Engineer to advance chemistries from bench-scale to pilot-scale within an automated platform. You will collaborate with experts in ML, process modeling, autonomous experimentation, and our commercial team to accelerate development.

Riven is building a lean, interdisciplinary team and welcomes applicants with experience across related roles to contribute from multiple angles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in a relevant engineering/chemistry field.
• 2+ years in industrial hydrometallurgical, separations, or process development.
• Experience designing, executing, and documenting bench-scale campaigns.
• Understanding of leaching, solid–liquid separation, solvent extraction and precipitation.
• Ability to analyze data, perform process calculations, and draw conclusions.
• Comfort working across lab, process engineering, analytical, and customer-facing duties.
• Clear interdisciplinary communication and quick learner in new domains.
• Ability to prioritize, execute, and collaborate with a high degree of agency.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and analyze bench- and pilot-scale solvent extraction experiments guiding development.
• Help set technical strategy for moving programs from vial-scale screening to pilot testing.
• Work with customers and commercial teams to define needs, run campaigns, present results, and scope next phases.
• Inform technical trade-off studies including scoping-level capital and operating cost estimates.

Skills

Bench-scale campaign design

Data analysis

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Customer-facing communication

Rapid learning & adaptability

Education

B.S./M.S. in Chemical or Metallurgical Engineering or Chemistry

Tools

METSIM

SysCAD

HSC Chemistry

Aspen Plus

ICP-OES

ICP-MS

Job description

Riven Systems seeks a Hydrometallurgical Engineer to advance chemistries from bench-scale to pilot-scale within an automated platform. You will collaborate with experts in ML, process modeling, autonomous experimentation, and our commercial team to accelerate development.

Riven is building a lean, interdisciplinary team and welcomes applicants with experience across related roles to contribute from multiple angles.