ControlRooms.ai is hiring a Process Engineer with hands-on plant operations experience to join their Process Engineering team, supporting industrial customers around the world. The role involves applying AI and machine learning software to improve real-world industrial performance and requires collaboration with customer-facing teams to ensure models reflect real plant behavior.
Responsibilities:
- Support deployment, validation, and tuning of AI/ML-driven alerts and diagnostic insights for operating plants
- Analyze plant operating data to identify abnormal conditions, alarm patterns, and root causes
- Collaborate closely with customer-facing teams to ensure models reflect real plant behavior
- Improve plant troubleshooting and reliability by reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR)
- Act as a technical partner to customers, translating operational knowledge into practical, data-driven insights
- Participate in occasional domestic and international travel to customer sites as needed (generally less than 25% travel)
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience in process engineering, operations engineering, or production engineering
- Hands-on experience in industrial plant operations, including refineries, ammonia plants, LNG facilities, polyethylene, or other continuous-process operations
- Comfort working directly with customers and communicating technical concepts clearly
- Demonstrated curiosity or interest in industrial software, analytics, AI, or machine learning
- 5+ years of experience in process engineering, operations engineering, or production engineering
- Experience in refining
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering