Carbon Switch remote jobs and company guide

Howdy! My name is Michael Thomas, and I’m the founder of Carbon Switch. I thought I’d begin this job posting with a short story about why I started the company and why this role will be so important to its success and social impact.

In the summer of 2020, as a wildfire raged a few miles away from my home in Colorado, I went down a research rabbit hole. I’m not sure what inspired it, but somehow I ended up on a website with a graph of the largest sources of emissions in America.

One piece of data on that website surprised me: 20% of emissions in America come from the energy we use in our homes. In total the electricity, natural gas, and other fossil fuels we use is responsible for a billion tons of emissions each year.

After I learned that, I started looking into ways to reduce those emissions. And I learned that compared to other “hard to abate” sectors like aviation or concrete-production, many of the solutions already exist.