Product Engineer

Role Overview 

At M2X Energy, we're rethinking how fuels and chemicals are made—turning stranded natural gas into valuable, low-carbon products that help combat climate change. As the Gas-To-Methanol (GTM) Product Manager, you'll help mature our Gas-to-Methanol system from a low-rate initial production (LRIP) product into a repeatable, manufacturable, field-ready platform that can scale.

This role is less focused on traditional commercially-oriented product management, and more focused on product definition, design maturation, manufacturability, quality, and scale-up. The GTM Product Manager will work at the center of engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, commissioning, and operations to convert lessons from prototypes and deployed systems into a robust product roadmap, controlled design baseline, and scalable production strategy. This role is ideal for someone who can bridge system-level thinking with disciplined execution and who is excited by the challenge of taking industrial hardware from pilot stage to repeatable deployment.

Key Responsibilities 

• Own the GTM Product Definition: Maintain the product requirements, system architecture boundaries, and design intent for the Gas-to-Methanol system, ensuring alignment across process, mechanical, electrical, controls, and manufacturing teams.
• Drive Design Maturation: Lead the transition from early manufacturing configurations to controlled product versions by managing requirement traceability, configuration control, quality control, design reviews, and engineering change prioritization.
• Build for Scale: Partner with engineering and manufacturing to improve design for manufacturability, design for assembly, serviceability, modularization, and standardization across GTM builds.
• Translate Field Learning into Product Improvements: Gather input from commissioning, operations, service, and quality teams; identify recurring issues; and convert those insights into prioritized product changes and sustaining engineering work.
• Own Cross-Functional Prioritization: Create and maintain the GTM product roadmap with emphasis on reliability, throughput, cost reduction, safety, manufacturability, and deployment readiness rather than feature marketing.
• Support Manufacturing Scale-Up: Work with production and supply chain teams to define product structures, critical parts lists, long-lead component strategy, build sequencing, test requirements, and release readiness for scaled deployment.
• Strengthen Verification and Validation: Define what “good” looks like for GTM product performance and coordinate validation plans, factory acceptance criteria, commissioning feedback loops, and readiness gates for new revisions.
• Improve Quality and Change Control: Partner with quality and engineering leaders to implement disciplined documentation, nonconformance feedback, root-cause learning, and corrective actions that improve future builds.
• Coordinate Internal Stakeholders: Serve as the integrator across process engineering, mechanical design, controls, manufacturing, supply chain, field operations, and leadership to ensure decisions are made clearly and tradeoffs are explicit.
• Provide Select Commercial Support: Support business development and project teams on product fit, configuration selection, and technical tradeoffs when needed, while keeping the primary focus on product readiness and execution.

Required Qualifications 

• A strong technical foundation in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field; B.S. required, advanced degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, systems engineering, manufacturing engineering, new product introduction, or technical program leadership for industrial equipment, process systems, energy systems, or other complex hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to take a product from prototype or pilot stage into a more mature, repeatable, manufacturable release.
• Strong grasp of system-level product development, including requirements management, tradeoff analysis, design reviews, configuration management, and engineering change processes.
• Experience working cross-functionally with design engineering, fabrication/assembly, supply chain, test, and field teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to read and discuss P&IDs, equipment layouts, assembly concepts, test plans, and technical documentation with engineering depth and sound judgment.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize competing needs and maintain clarity across many moving parts.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, especially in driving alignment and documenting decisions, risks, and next steps.

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience with modular process plants, skid-mounted equipment, gas processing systems, methanol or syngas systems, or adjacent oil and gas / industrial process equipment.
• Familiarity with design-for-manufacturing and assembly principles, factory acceptance testing, commissioning, and field reliability improvement.
• Experience using PLM, ERP/MRP, issue tracking, or configuration control tools in a hardware environment.
• Working knowledge of relevant industrial codes and standards and how they affect product design, fabrication, testing, and deployment.
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment where processes are still being built while products are being deployed. 

Salary Range: Starting at $105,000, commensurate with experience 

Job Type: Full-time

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, standard business hours, with flexibility as needed to support builds, testing, and deployment activities.

Work Location: Brevard County, Florida, with regular time at the M2X manufacturing facility in Rockledge, FL, and periodic travel to test or deployment sites as needed.

Work Authorization: Must be eligible to work in the United States.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

M2X Energy is committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. 

About M2X Energy 

M2X Energy is a growth-stage company that converts wasted methane into low-carbon methanol through modular systems designed for real-world deployment. We help reduce emissions while creating immediate environmental and economic value from gas that would otherwise be wasted. With manufacturing scaling and deployment expanding, M2X is building the capacity to deliver at a larger commercial scale. Join a company focused on practical engineering, real execution, and measurable impact.