Senior Process Engineer
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>Antora Energy delivers affordable, reliable energy to industry, data centers, and the grid. Our thermal batteries turn low-cost electricity into always-on heat and power, without supply-constrained critical minerals or multi-year construction timelines.</p> <p>We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and work with humility and openness. We are committed to building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.</p></div><h5><strong><br><br>Position Summary<br><br><br></strong></h5> <p>Antora Energy is building thermal energy storage systems that deliver zero-carbon industrial heat and power at scale. We are seeking a self-driven, hands-on Process Engineer to help scope, define, and design balance-of-plant systems for Antora’s thermal energy storage projects across test, pilot, and commercial deployments.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">As a key member of our engineering team, you will own process engineering deliverables for industrial-scale systems, including heat and mass balances, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, equipment requirements, and cross-functional design reviews. Your work will directly support the testing, scale-up, and commercial deployment of Antora’s novel solid-state thermal battery technology.</p> <p>We are a tight-knit team that cares deeply about our mission, our technology, and one another. We work with humility, openness, technical rigor, and a bias toward action. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex first-of-a-kind engineering problems, collaborating across disciplines, and building practical systems that operate safely and reliably in the real world.<br><br></p> <h5><strong><br>Roles & Responsibilities<br><br><br></strong></h5> <ul> <li>Define, develop, and own process engineering requirements and specifications for balance-of-plant systems, including heat and mass balances, Process Flow Diagrams, and Process & Instrumentation Diagrams.</li> <li>Translate project, product, and system-level requirements into executable process designs for test and commercial thermal energy storage projects.</li> <li>Review cross-functional engineering deliverables, including equipment specifications, piping layouts, instrumentation, controls concepts, and mechanical designs, to ensure alignment with process requirements.</li> <li>Participate in process safety reviews, including PHAs, HAZOPs, HAZIDs, design reviews, and related risk assessment activities.</li> <li>Perform engineering trade studies that balance performance, cost, manufacturability, operability, safety, and schedule.</li> <li>Use both quick-turn analytical methods, such as spreadsheets and hand calculations, and more rigorous model-based approaches when appropriate.</li> <li>Support the development and selection of industrial mechanical equipment, including pressure vessels, pumps, heat exchangers, air coolers, fans, tanks, piping, valves, and related process systems.</li> <li>Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, thermal, fluids, controls, operations, manufacturing, and project execution teams.</li> <li>Support commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of Antora’s thermal energy storage systems.</li> <li>Apply AI tools thoughtfully to improve engineering workflows, including accelerating calculations, organizing design information, supporting documentation, improving review efficiency, generating first-pass analyses, and building repeatable workflows while maintaining strong engineering judgment and techni