EU remote
Technology Engineer
About this role
POSTED: 20th August 2026 STARTING DATE: As soon as possible FULL TIME, ROTTERDAM MISSION TO METRICS The Ocean Cleanup is a global nonprofit that develops and scales solutions to rid the world’s oceans of plastic, driving systemic change, and creating a lasting positive impact for people, wildlife, and the planet. The Technology team designs, develops and evolves a portfolio of robust, scalable, technical solutions for River and Pacific plastic cleanup, enabling effective and long-term operations across diverse environments.
Our primary objectives are to: Develop and maintain a standardized portfolio of river and ocean cleanup technologies. Drive innovation through structured R&D and targeted field experimentation. Provide methods, tools and guidelines to support and standardized the engineering in the deployment cycle. Provide technical solution envelop in early-phase of the deployment cycle. THE ASSIGNMENT The Technology Engineer (Junior and Medior) has a broad role within the organization contributing to building the foundations and standardization to enable high-quality and effective technical solutions.
Key Deliverables and outcomes: Development and validation of cleanup technologies – Validated ocean and river cleanup technologies part of the Portfolio. Characterization of technology performance via modelling or testing – Support validation of technologies from portfolio. Standardized Methods & Tooling for deployment design – Tools and methods used as standard for efficient and high quality deployment engineering. Deployment solutions envelop for future river cleanup per City – Overview of solutions enabling procurement forecast, identification of possible complex deployments or gaps to close within the Technology portfolio.
RESPONSIBILITIES Technology portfolio: Support concepting, design, testing and continuous improvement of a portfolio of modular, field-validated river and ocean technologies. Ensure solutions are documented, transferable, and repeatable across regions. Methods & Tooling - Develops, maintains, and evolves design methods and tooling. Support or coordinate characterization campaign of cleanup Technologies (Load and capturing performance tests in basins, representative environments, or in the field).