About RenewCO2

RenewCO2 makes carbon-negative chemicals and fuels. Our electrocatalytic CO2 utilization technology runs on electricity, water, and waste CO2, and the product drops straight into existing industrial supply chains. Because the process is energy-efficient, our cost structure competes with fossil-derived incumbents rather than relying on a green premium.

We are venture-backed with grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, NSF, DARPA, the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology, and Breakthrough Energy. The technology is demonstrated at pilot scale with customers, and we are now building toward commercial scale. R&D; is based in the United States; product development and manufacturing happen in India. Our customers are chemical, fuel, and materials producers across Asia, Europe, and North and Latin America.

This role is based in Chikkaballapur, Karnataka, at Ohmium International, which builds green hydrogen electrolyzers at a gigafactory there. RenewCO2 has a joint development agreement with Ohmium: working beside a partner that already makes electrochemical stacks at volume shortens our path to manufacturing at scale.

The role

Non-dilutive funding and commercial bids are two of the most consequential workstreams at our stage, and both get won or lost on execution details: a compliance matrix, a budget justification that reconciles, a letter of commitment that arrives before the deadline. You own that execution.

You will run the mechanics of every grant application and commercial proposal we submit — the calendar, outline, compliance checklist, assembly, correspondence, and submission. Our technical and commercial leaders spend their time on content and strategy instead of forms and formatting.

This is a hands-on job. You will build the documents yourself, work directly with our CTO and CEO, the U.S. technical team, university and industrial partners, and counterparts at Ohmium, and learn a valuable deal about electrochemistry and how large industrial customers buy along the way.

What you will do

Opportunity pipeline

- Track funding opportunities across U.S. federal programs, Indian national and Karnataka state programs, and relevant international and philanthropic sources.
- Write short bid and no-bid briefs: eligibility, fit, cost share, effort required, deadlines, and what we would need from partners.

Grant proposal management

- Own the proposal calendar, working backward from the deadline through kickoff, outline, content plan, review rounds, and submission with real buffer.
- Build the compliance matrix for every solicitation — page limits, margins and fonts, required sections, file naming, appendix rules — then verify compliance before we submit.
- Assemble standard components: forms, budgets and budget justifications, cost-share documentation, letters of commitment, biosketches and CVs, current and pending support, milestone tables, data management plans, and community benefits plans where required.
- Coordinate subrecipient packages with university and industrial partners, accounting for each research office's requirements and timelines.




- Edit contributed technical text to fit page limits without changing what it claims, and query the author when meaning is at stake.
- Submit through the portal, then archive the complete submitted package.

Commercial proposals and bids

- Manage responses to customer and EPC RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, and tenders: requirement matrices, response outlines, contributor assignments, and the consolidated final document.
- Complete supplier prequalification questionnaires and vendor registrations; keep our profiles current in customer procurement portals.
- Keep the clarification and Q&A; log during a live bid; track deadlines for questions, addenda, and submission.
- Pull commercial and legal inputs together with finance, counsel, and technical leads: pricing sheets, terms review, insurance, HSE and QA documentation.

Content library and post-award support

- Build and maintain a reusable content library: boilerplate, technical descriptions, past performance, facility and safety information, CVs, standard budget structures. The next submission should start at sixty percent rather than zero.
- Track NDAs, confidentiality obligations, and document control across submissions.
- Support post-award reporting: milestone and progress report assembly, deadline tracking, formatting.

What we are looking for

- Two to four years coordinating grant applications, tenders, or commercial bids, or supporting government reporting and compliance. Deep tech, energy, engineering services, manufacturing, and research institutions are all good backgrounds.
- Some hands-on experience putting a formal application or bid together: forms, budgets, letters of support, CVs, and the rest of the package. We will teach you the parts specific to DOE and our commercial customers.
- You take solicitation rules seriously. Page limits, margins, fonts, file naming, and appendix rules decide whether a good proposal gets read at all.
- Solid Word and Excel skills, including styles, templates, and comfort working in long documents with multiple contributors.
- You can keep a deadline moving through people more senior than you — following up with a CTO, a professor, or a partner's contracts office politely and persistently until the document arrives.
- You can edit an engineer's writing for clarity and length without changing what it claims, and you ask when meaning is unclear rather than guessing.
- Reliability on deadlines, versions, and confidentiality. Unpublished data, partner information, and pricing get handled correctly every time.
- Willingness to work occasional late evenings on grant submission days. U.S. federal deadlines often fall at 5:00 PM Eastern (roughly 2:30 AM IST). We plan around it, and compensating time off follows.
- A bachelor's degree; science, engineering,



or technical communication helps. Fluent written English.

If you have done most of this and are early in your career, apply. We would rather teach the specifics to someone who wants to do the work.

Nice to have

- Experience with U.S. federal submission portals (DOE eXCHANGE, Grants.gov, PAMS, FedConnect, Research.gov) or Indian national and state equivalents.
- Experience with DOE program offices (EERE, FECM, ARPA-E, OCED) or SBIR/STTR applications.
- Experience with Indian and international funders: MNRE and the National Green Hydrogen Mission, DST, ANRF, TDB, BIRAC, Karnataka state programs, Horizon Europe, or philanthropic climate funds.
- Commercial bid experience with procurement portals such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, or GeM.
- Awareness of U.S. federal award compliance: 2 CFR 200, indirect cost rates, FFATA, Build America Buy America, prevailing wage rules.
- APMP or Grant Professional Certified credential; experience running structured proposal reviews (pink team/red team).
- Familiarity with our vocabulary: electrolysis, CO2 utilization, catalysis, techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment, technology readiness level.
- Experience coordinating across time zones with a distributed technical team.

What success looks like in six months

- Every submission compliant and in before the deadline, with no portal emergencies.
- A live, prioritized funding pipeline with clear bid and no-bid recommendations, so we chase fewer and better opportunities.
- A content library that measurably cuts the effort of each new submission.
- Partner and subrecipient documents arriving on our schedule rather than at the deadline.

This role is probably not for you if...

- Detailed formatting and compliance rules bore you rather than satisfy you.
- You are looking for a job where you assign this work rather than do it yourself.
- Following up with senior people for deliverables makes you uncomfortable.
- You need a schedule with no late nights ever. A handful of grant submission nights a year come with this job.

Location, working pattern, and compensation

Hybrid: two days a week on site in Chikkaballapur, the rest wherever you work best. A company shuttle runs from Bengaluru. Compensation: ₹10–12 lakh fixed CTC, plus equity and benefits. On-site days flex around submission deadlines; compensating time off follows submission nights.

What to submit

- A writing sample of one or two pages of technical or semi-technical prose you wrote or substantially edited: a proposal section, executive summary, project narrative, or capability statement. Tell us which parts were yours.
- One process artifact from a real submission: a compliance matrix, a proposal calendar, an outline with contributor assignments, or a budget justification. This often tells us more than the prose does.

Redact or paraphrase anything confidential. The application form also asks you to describe one submission you coordinated and one you lost.

How to apply

Apply at https://www.renewco2.com/careers. The platform collects your CV, the two samples above, and a few short questions.

📌 Grant & Commercial Proposal Coordinator (Chikkaballapur)
🏢 RenewCO₂
📍 Chikkaballapur