About the role
Hands-on hydrometallurgical experimentation at our Delhi facility. Leaching, solvent extraction, precipitation, and scale-up from bench to pilot. You will work directly on the core NovaGenesis process platform, running trials that shape the commercial line. No waiting for permission. Real responsibility from day one.
Eligibility
BTech, MTech, or MSc in Chemical Engineering, Metallurgy, Materials Science, or Chemistry.
Why Novasensa
Real-world tech, not theory.
You work on processes that go live within weeks, not ideas that sit in slides.
Founders who teach and challenge you.
Learn from leaders with global execution experience across Duke, Harvard, EY, and WeWork.
A career tied to national transformation.
From critical mineral security to the circular economy.
A place where your trajectory is exponential.
We do not just promote. We build leaders.
ABOUT NOVASENSA
Two products. One mission.
Novasensa is a research-driven, deep-tech company solving two halves of one problem: secure critical minerals and clean energy for India’s next-generation industries.
NovaGenesis, our proprietary hydrometallurgical platform, recovers lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, gold, silver, palladium, and copper from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and printed circuit boards. Indigenously developed at Novasensa. Protected by a family of active patent filings. Operating at zero liquid discharge with a carbon-neutral process design.
NovaX brings AI-guided, multi-spectral dry beneficiation to India’s mines. Sorting ore from gangue at the single-particle level. No water. No chemicals. No tailings.
We are headquartered in New Delhi, with our hydrometallurgy plant under construction in Jaipur, Rajasthan’s first critical mineral extraction facility from end-of-life waste and lithium-ion batteries.
YOU WILL WORK WITH
The founders are directly involved.
Aseem Trivedi
Co-Founder and CEO
Duke. Harvard. EY. WeWork. Twelve years in climate-tech and national-scale infrastructure. Built Novasensa to solve India’s critical mineral and energy challenge from first principles.
Vanessa Lacayo Trivedi
Co-Founder and COO
Leads operations, sustainability, and commercial partnerships. Drives execution across Novasensa’s facilities, fellowships, and strategic initiatives.