Company Description & Purpose 

Allonnia’s purpose is the pursuit of sustainable solutions to the world’s toughest waste challenges, because we believe waste is a failure of imagination. We develop and deploy sustainable technologies that leave the planet better than we found it, creating a positive net environmental footprint. By leveraging nature’s own ingenuity and the power of engineered systems, we deliver scalable solutions that remediate emerging contaminants and enhance mining sustainability to extract value from waste and strengthen critical mineral supply chains.

Allonnia is a five-year-old, Boston-based company looking for team members who want to develop innovations for real customers, solving real problems and delivering sustainable solutions to the world. Sound interesting? It is! Bring your adaptability, creativity, team mindset, and drive to commercialize technology that will make an impact for decades to come. 

Mission of the Position

The primary objective of this role, as part of Allonnia’s Application Development team, is to develop and deploy sustainable solutions that help decarbonize the mining industry. Our team plays a critical role in integrating D-Solve™ into customers’ operations, delivering a technology that is both economically compelling and environmentally transformative. Check out the 2-minute video of our D-Solve™ solution and see the kind of impact you could have by joining us.

As part of the D-Solve™ team, you will collaborate closely with product development, analytical science, and the broader application development team. In this Industrial Water Treatment Engineer role, you will advance our strategies for regenerating Allonnia’s Biosolutions and extract value elements from D-Solve waste streams, ultimately enhancing water recyclability, limiting water demand, and generating value from waste. 

This hands-on engineer will design and implement innovative experimental plans to evaluate known and novel technologies for industrial water treatment to remove gangue minerals from Allonnia Biosolutions and to achieve selective separation of metals from D-Solve waste streams, paving the way for more sustainable mining practices. 

You will develop regeneration technology in our Boston lab and bring these innovations to life by deploying them in customer on-site pilots, showcasing the D-Solve process in real-world environments.  

Key Criteria/Requirements 

• Master’s degree in engineering is preferred, with a focus in Civil, Environmental, or Chemical Engineering  
• 10+ years' experience in innovative industrial water and wastewater-related engineering design, technology evaluation, and treatment planning as a lead design engineer or project manager 
• Experience with separation technology such as ion exchange (IX), nanofiltration (NF), electrodialysis (EDI), solvent extraction (liquid-liquid extraction), precipitation, and distillation to remove metals or other ions from aqueous streams. 
• Experience in developing wastewater treatment technology selection proposals 
• Strong team leadership experience or proven potential, including managing project delivery expectations, prioritization of tasks, and mentoring  
• Excellent technical skills in the water/wastewater/industrial water treatment practice area, including experience with operations and troubleshooting of process engineering 
• In-depth knowledge of industrial water and wastewater treatment systems 
• Function as a technical specialist in the areas of conventional and advanced wastewater treatment 
• Knowledge of the regulatory requirements in various states to support industrial wastewater projects is a plus. 
• Knowledge and/or understanding of treatment process modeling 
• Familiarity with engineering design software (e.g., AutoCAD) will be helpful  
• Demonstrated ability to work creatively and collaboratively across disciplines to develop new technology  
• Communicate clearly and often with both internal and external stakeholders, orally and in writing  
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team  
• Ability to develop process improvements and apply known approaches in new ways  
• Comfort in a fast-paced environment; must be capable of supporting multiple projects that are deadline-oriented, handling interruptions, and being flexible with changing tasks  
• Passion about the startup environment, and able to work from ground zero to help develop the team  
• Position is based in our Boston office/lab with potential for travel to test locations

Measurable Accountabilities 

• Lead the regeneration R&D for D-Solve applications including leading the experimentation planning and execution to achieve new flowsheet development. 
• Research and investigate process methods from other applications for their use with our technology; develop proof of concept evaluations for identifying novel treatment for solutions within the D-Solve process.  
• Conduct data analysis, identify appropriate treatment technologies, develop basis of design and hydraulic calculations, and prepare engineering reports for all assigned projects. 
• Provide technical direction and expertise to the team of design engineers and coordinate multi-disciplined engineering teams. 
• Coordinate development of proposals and strategic client pursuits. Act as owner of technical collaboration with partners and providers.
• Evaluate current operations and troubleshoot process engineering for deployed processes. 
• Assist with preliminary techno-economic assessment (TEA) for envisioned applications and develop feasibility studies of proposed products. 

Allonnia's Core Values 

Purposeful: Committing to work on the right things as individuals as as a company, delivering impactful results as a team.

Entrepreneurial: Taking initiative, innovating and acting with urgency and adaptability, driving to win in the market. 

Transparent: Fostering a high trust environment that embraces constructive debate, achieving success together. 

Key Competencies 

• Tenacity 
• Conceptual Ability 
• Strategic Skills
• Resourcefulness
• Adaptability 
• Customer Focus