Research Associate

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About Alt Carbon:

Alt Carbon was started by sibling tea planters Shrey and Sparsh Agarwal, in order to rescue their family’s tea estate from being at-risk of climate impact to becoming the frontier of climate action.

Read about our journey below:

Our Journey to Revive Darjeeling

To read more about our work, check out this news feature about us, go through this twitter thread, or have a look at our work in Darjeeling.

About the Role

We are looking for razor-sharp, detail-obsessed Research Associates to support our scientific efforts in Carbon Dioxide Removal through Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW). This is not a typical academic lab role — it demands operational discipline, documentation excellence, and strong quantitative thinking.

You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team across geochemistry, agronomy, instrumentation, and AI. If you’ve spent time in high-compliance industries like pharma, food-tech, materials engineering, or corporate research — and you want to transition to climate and planetary sciences — this is your runway.

Who We’re Looking For

engineers, pharmacists, formulation scientists, chemical analysts, and R&D professionals

• Can handle lab protocol design and sample tracking without dropping the ball
• Understand calibration, QA/QC, and documentation rigor
• Are excited to learn geochemistry and climate science on the job
• Want your work to meaningfully move the needle on climate change

...we want to talk.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in experimental design and data collection for ERW trials
• Run analytical tests (with training) using XRD, ICP-OES, IRMS, and more
• Work with our internal LIMBS (Lab Information Management System) to log, track, and analyze samples
• Collaborate with our Earth Sciences and AI teams to improve models and methods
• Follow strict SOPs, maintain lab hygiene, and ensure audit-readiness
• Help prepare reports, whitepapers, and registry documentation for carbon credit issuance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in:

- Chemical Engineering

- Pharmaceutical Sciences (Formulation/Analytical/Process)

- Environmental or Civil Engineering (with lab or field experience)

- Analytical Chemistry / Industrial Chemistry / Materials Science

• 2-5 years of hands-on work in a corporate, academic, or industrial lab
• Bonus if you've worked in a GLP/GMP or ISO-compliant environment
• Bonus if you’ve handled wet chemistry, titrations, or soil/water/matrix analysis
• High comfort with spreadsheets, documentation, and structured experimentation

What We Offer

• A high-ownership role in one of South Asia’s most advanced Earth Sciences labs
• Cross-disciplinary exposure: work with scientists, climate modelers, AI engineers
• A chance to publish, prototype, and ship science that goes from lab → field.
• The satisfaction of doing real, measurable good for the planet