Research Engineer – CO₂ Capture

Joining Mines Saint-Étienne means committing to an institution where science and innovation build a more sustainable future. An institution of excellence where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential and contribute to meeting the challenges of tomorrow.

Ranked among the best engineering schools in France and recognized worldwide, our school, a member of the Institut Mines-Télécom, trains the talents of tomorrow while actively contributing to meeting major industrial, digital, and environmental challenges. With us, you will join a community of 500 employees, 2500 students, and participate in an ambitious project: combining academic excellence, cutting-edge research, and positive societal impact.

The Institut Mines-Télécom brings together French engineering schools around major industrial, energy, and ecological challenges. With its 8 public Grandes Écoles and 2 subsidiary schools, it is the leading public institute dedicated to engineers and managers. Together, we imagine and build a sustainable future, training the actors who will shape the transitions of tomorrow.

At Mines Saint-Étienne, our research centers are the beating heart of our School.

Designed as true innovation hubs, our five Training and Research Centers articulate their expertise around major industrial, environmental, societal, and technological issues.

Their mission? To imagine the world of tomorrow by combining academic excellence and concrete impact.

Do you dream of a clean, efficient, and sustainable industry? The SPIN center makes it its priority.

Energy, environment, industrial processes… we design systems there to produce better, with less.

The objective? Limit environmental impact, reduce energy consumption, and boost efficiency.

🔧 In a rapidly changing world, our teams deploy their scientific creativity to support the industry of the future.

And you, are you ready to innovate with us?

🎯 What we expect from you

As an Engineer, you are at the heart of our research and innovation missions, assigned to the SPIN Center. Within this center, you combine scientific passion and societal impact to contribute to achieving France's carbon neutrality objectives.

The SPIN center is one of Mines Saint-Etienne's research centers dedicated to process engineering research and brings together about 80 people including teacher-researchers, postdocs, doctoral students, interns, and benefits from the support of administrative and technical staff. The activity of the SPIN center is part of the scope of the Georges Friedel Laboratory (UMR 5307) and the Environment, City and Society Laboratory (UMR 5600).

This recruitment is at the heart of Mines Saint-Etienne's innovation strategy to enable an IMT patent to be translated into a technology for capturing CO2 from industrial flue gases, thereby contributing to the achievement of the French Carbon Neutrality objective.

· You will ensure the development of a CO2 capture pilot,

· You will participate in the technology transfer between a patented methodology and the spin-off Carbon Cage,

· You will contribute to a major societal challenge,

· You will report to the GasHyDyn team, which supports methodological developments, and you will interact daily with its spin-off Carbon Cage.

Your ability to work in a project-based manner and to bridge research and concrete application will be essential for success.

🔍 What we are looking for

You hold a:

· Bachelor's degree + 5 years of higher education or equivalent,

And ideally:

· Hold a PhD

· Junior accepted: [yes]

• Significant experience in the field of clathrate hydrates

• Proficiency in English (C1 level)

Your additional strengths:

• Ability to work in an international and multicultural context

• Ability to work with a startup

🌍 Why join Mines Saint-Étienne?

We support each of our employees on the path to excellence, with the conviction that together, we can have a lasting and significant impact on our world.

Joining Mines Saint-Étienne is an opportunity to find:

·A stimulating environment: state-of-the-art experimental facilities, a strong international network (T.I.M.E., EULIST), and human-sized campuses with an urban environment

·Real impact: contractual research projects worth €11 million/year, mainly with industrial partners, a scientific culture center called La Rotonde which has been involved in science outreach for 25 years, attracting over 50,000 visitors/year

·An incomparable quality of life: 49 days of leave and RTT, partial remote working, 75% coverage of public transport costs, financial support for carpooling and cycling, and a social barometer where 83% of employees praise the quality of work life.

Let's build a more sustainable future, through science, engineering, and meaningful projects.

📩 Apply now!

Application deadline: 11/12/2026

🔗 Application files (CV, cover letter, letter of recommendation if applicable, ID card) must be submitted on the RECRUITEE platform:

https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/ingenieure-ou-ingenieur-de-recherche-captage-du-co

As part of its Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policy, Mines Saint Etienne School is an employer committed to fair treatment of all applications.

Additional information

· Desired start date: 02/01/2027

· Remuneration fixed according to the candidate's profile, based on the rules defined by the management framework of the Institut Mines Télécom.

· Positions offered for recruitment are open to all, with, upon request, accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

· Contractual employment

· In the medium term, a permanent position may be offered

· Any application may be subject to an administrative investigation

· For internal use Institut Mines Télécom:

Ø Category II – Job P – Post-doctoral fellow according to the Management Framework

📞 Contacts

· Regarding the job content:
Mathilde Rieu _ Teacher-Researcher
Email:

· Regarding administrative/HR aspects:
Milica PETKOVIC – HR Manager
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Tel: + 33 (0)4 77 42 02 08

Useful links:

School:

https://www.mines-stetienne.fr/

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