About this role
Technology Engineer The Ocean Cleanup Other Engineering, IT Rotterdam, Netherlands Posted on Aug 22, 2026 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...