What working here actually looks like
Most technical work happens in cross-functional triads: a chemist, an applications engineer and a customer-facing project lead share a Slack channel, a shared Linear board and a recurring weekly call. Decisions are written down — short ADRs for technical choices, project briefs for commercial ones — and we read each other's work in public so juniors learn how senior people think.
We protect deep-work time. Wednesday and Thursday are no-meeting days by default across R&D and engineering; commercial teams hold their internal stand-ups inside a 45-minute window in the morning and keep the rest of the day free for customer calls and lab work. Press-trial weeks are treated as project sprints with on-call rotation and lieu time the following week.
Travel is real but not exhausting. Field engineers visit converters roughly one week per month; commercial managers run a similar rhythm with brand owners. Everyone else travels on demand for specific trials, never on a quota. We pay for premium-economy long-haul flights, single hotel rooms and same-day return when feasible.