<ul><li>Your role: As an intern, you will support the evaluation and development of sorbents and sorbent structures for DAC. You will gain hands-on experience in lab-based testing, data analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration.</li><li>Lab Assessments: You collaborate within an integrated team to carry out lab-based assessments, including adsorption characterization, accelerated lifetime testing, and process-relevant evaluations of novel materials.</li><li>Material Stability: You investigate material stability by testing under accelerated aging conditions to simulate long-term performance.</li><li>Sorbent Characterization: You characterize sorbent behaviour by measuring unary and binary isotherms under controlled conditions.</li><li>Independent Work: You work independently on targeted work packages to understand how material properties influence DAC performance.</li><li>Method Development: You contribute to the development, refinement, and validation of experimental methods to ensure reliable and reproducible testing outcomes.</li><li>Documentation &amp; Communication: You validate, troubleshoot, and clearly document your work to ensure effective communication across interdisciplinary development teams at Climeworks.</li></ul><ul><li>Education &amp; Experience: You have a bachelor’s degree and/or are working towards a master’s degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, or similar.</li><li>Technical Skills: You enjoy working hands-on in the lab, and you have some classroom or other experience with any of the following: characterization of porous materials (N₂ adsorption, Hg porosimetry, DVS, etc.), adsorption characterization (breakthrough testing).</li><li>Additional Knowledge: Familiarity with CO₂ capture is beneficial but not required.</li><li>Mindset: You are eager to learn new concepts, skills, and tools that you might need to complete your assignments.</li><li>Working Style: You are reliable, motivated, solution-oriented, concise, and have a structured working style.</li><li>Availability: You are available for a 6-month internship with a start date preferably in January/February 2026 or shortly thereafter.</li><li>Language Skills: You are fluent in English; knowledge of German or other languages is beneficial but not required.</li></ul>Our promise: At Climeworks, you are accepted for who you are, and we are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply – regardless of background, identity, or experience. Studies show that women and individuals from minority backgrounds often only apply for jobs when they meet 100% of the listed criteria. If this sounds like you, don’t hold back. If you think you’d make a great fit for this role, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t check every single box. Let’s tackle one of humankind’s greatest challenges together.What we offer:At Climeworks, our six-month internships offer a hybrid work setup, giving you flexibility while ensuring valuable collaboration by working onsite at least three days per week. To maintain fairness, we follow a standardized salary process based on market benchmarks. For our internships based in Switzerland, the compensation is:<ul><li>During BSc &amp; MSc: CHF 2,000 per month</li><li>After completion of MSc: CHF 2,500 per month</li></ul>Note: We do not accept candidate profiles through recruitment agencies.

Climeworks empowers people to fight climate change by permanently removing CO₂ from the air with direct air capture technology. We are dedicated to purpose, we are disruptive thinkers, and we are one team.
We develop, build and operate direct air capture (DAC) machines, which capture CO₂ directly from the air. The air-captured carbon dioxide can either be recycled and reused as a raw material or completely removed from the air by safely storing it underground, permanently.
Founded in 2009 by engineers, Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Climeworks was built with the vision to inspire 1 billion people to remove CO₂ from the air, and is now the leader in technological carbon removal.
We are featured as a&nbsp;<a href="https://climeworks.com/news/climeworks-named-one-of-time100-most-influential-companies" data-nuxt-link="">TIME100 Influential Company 2022</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://climeworks.com/news/climeworks-is-selected-for-2022-global-cleantech-100" data-nuxt-link="">Global Cleantech 100 Company 2022</a>&nbsp;and drive a revolutionary technology engineered to solve the most pressing issue of our time.

Intern in Sorbent Characterization (100%)

<ul><li>Your role: As an intern, you will support the evaluation and development of sorbents and sorbent structures for DAC. You will gain hands-on experience in lab-based testing, data analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration.</li><li>Lab Assessments: You collaborate within an integrated team to carry out lab-based assessments, including adsorption characterization, accelerated lifetime testing, and process-relevant evaluations of novel materials.</li><li>Material Stability: You investigate material stability by testing under accelerated aging conditions to simulate long-term performance.</li><li>Sorbent Characterization: You characterize sorbent behaviour by measuring unary and binary isotherms under controlled conditions.</li><li>Independent Work: You work independently on targeted work packages to understand how material properties influence DAC performance.</li><li>Method Development: You contribute to the development, refinement, and validation of experimental methods to ensure reliable and reproducible testing outcomes.</li><li>Documentation &amp; Communication: You validate, troubleshoot, and clearly document your work to ensure effective communication across interdisciplinary development teams at Climeworks.</li></ul><ul><li>Education &amp; Experience: You have a bachelor’s degree and/or are working towards a master’s degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, or similar.</li><li>Technical Skills: You enjoy working hands-on in the lab, and you have some classroom or other experience with any of the following: characterization of porous materials (N₂ adsorption, Hg porosimetry, DVS, etc.), adsorption characterization (breakthrough testing).</li><li>Additional Knowledge: Familiarity with CO₂ capture is beneficial but not required.</li><li>Mindset: You are eager to learn new concepts, skills, and tools that you might need to complete your assignments.</li><li>Working Style: You are reliable, motivated, solution-oriented, concise, and have a structured working style.</li><li>Availability: You are available for a 6-month internship with a start date preferably in January/February 2026 or shortly thereafter.</li><li>Language Skills: You are fluent in English; knowledge of German or other languages is beneficial but not required.</li></ul>Our promise: At Climeworks, you are accepted for who you are, and we are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply – regardless of background, identity, or experience. Studies show that women and individuals from minority backgrounds often only apply for jobs when they meet 100% of the listed criteria. If this sounds like you, don’t hold back. If you think you’d make a great fit for this role, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t check every single box. Let’s tackle one of humankind’s greatest challenges together.What we offer:At Climeworks, our six-month internships offer a hybrid work setup, giving you flexibility while ensuring valuable collaboration by working onsite at least three days per week. To maintain fairness, we follow a standardized salary process based on market benchmarks. For our internships based in Switzerland, the compensation is:<ul><li>During BSc &amp; MSc: CHF 2,000 per month</li><li>After completion of MSc: CHF 2,500 per month</li></ul>Note: We do not accept candidate profiles through recruitment agencies.

Intern in Sorbent Characterization (100%)

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