Description
Lowercarbon Capital backs kickass companies that make real money slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet. We invest in companies at every stage that combine hard science with some bonkers ambition to deliver material and energy abundance. At the growth stage, the core question is whether systems work reliably, repeatedly, and at volume. Companies are moving from pilots to deployment. Manufacturing, cost, uptime, and real operating conditions begin to matter more than novelty. Technical risk still shapes outcomes.
We’re looking for a Technical Lead to play a key role on our growth stage investment team. We need someone to dig into growth-stage climate companies (typically TRL 6 - 8) and tell us what’s actually working, what’s held together with duct tape, and what needs to be true for the next phase of growth to succeed. You’ll review pilot data, operating history, and technical roadmaps, and you’ll talk directly with founders to understand how systems hold up in the real world. Your job is to form independent views on reliability, cost, and scale—then use those perspectives to shape an investment decision. Over time, this role becomes a trusted internal voice on applied climate technology and scale readiness.
Responsibilities
On a practical level, this means:
Lead or support technical diligence. You will help define the key technical questions for new investments and follow-ons early in the process, prioritize which risks matter most, and identify what information would meaningfully change conviction.
Produce written assessments. You will participate in internal discussions and help translate technical uncertainty into implications for capital decisions that investors can rely on. You will occasionally support portfolio companies by helping investors understand technical bottlenecks or scale challenges.
Build & externalize our technical POV. This includes writing technically grounded blog posts or memos that explain how we underwrite real-world climate systems as they scale: where technologies tend to break, what “good enough” actually looks like, and how cost, reliability, and deployment realities shape outcomes.
Deep research into new or emerging thematic areas. This means developing a clear understanding of the core technical bottlenecks in a given domain, what has already been de-risked, what remains genuinely hard, and what would need to change for the space to scale. This work informs where we focus our attention, how we ask questions in future diligence, and where we should be skeptical or patient.
Raise the technical bar internally. Pressure-test assumptions, poke holes in pitches (including our own), and help sharpen underwriting frameworks. The output may take the form of written notes, internal teach-ins, or structured perspectives that investors can reuse across deals.
Skills & Background
We’re not precious about titles. This could be an associate, senior associate, or a more senior technical investor, depending on experience. What matters is judgment, credibility, and the ability to reason clearly about technology that is already being built and deployed.
This is not exclusively a research role. It is for someone who understands how technology behaves as it scales and wants to apply that understanding to real decisions. But, they should be able to landscape industries to the extent that we are looking at multiple companies in a given sector or domain.
You might come from engineering, manufacturing, energy systems, materials, chemistry, or applied science. You may have worked on scale-up, deployment, or operations. You do not need prior investing experience.
You should be comfortable forming judgments with incomplete information, explaining technical issues clearly, and operating in situations with no single correct answer.
The best candidates are rigorous, practical, and honest about uncertainty.
We believe diversity is a source of strength. Lowercarbon Capital is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.