Process Engineer - Industrial Operations

ControlRooms.ai is hiring a Process Engineer with hands-on plant operations experience to join our Process Engineering team, supporting industrial customers around the world. This is a fully remote role, and ControlRooms.ai operates as a remote-first company.

This role is focused on operating plant support and is not a traditional process design or EPC-based position.

This role is ideal for a process or operations engineer who has supported day-to-day operations in an operating plant environment, and who is interested in applying AI and machine learning software to improve real-world industrial performance.

Experience in refining is preferred. We also value experience in other large-scale industrial operations, including ammonia production, LNG, and polyethylene or other petrochemical plants.

This is a customer-facing role for someone who enjoys troubleshooting, understands how plants actually operate, and has an affinity for modern software, data, and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support deployment, validation, and tuning of AI/ML-driven alerts and diagnostic insights for operating plants

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• 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)

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in process or operations engineering roles supporting operating plants (5+ years preferred)
• Experience supporting day-to-day plant operations, including troubleshooting, unit monitoring, startup/shutdown support, or reliability improvements
• Hands-on experience in industrial plant operations, including refineries, ammonia plants, LNG facilities, polyethylene, or other continuous-process operations

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• Comfort working directly with customers and communicating technical concepts clearly
• Demonstrated curiosity or interest in industrial software, analytics, AI, or machine learning
• Fluent in English, with the ability to communicate clearly in both written and spoken contexts
• B.S. in Chemical Engineering or a closely related discipline required

Note: Resumes must be submitted in English for consideration.

Why Join ControlRooms.ai?

ControlRooms.ai builds cutting-edge AI and machine learning software for industrial operations. Our platform is deployed at complex plants globally and is helping customers unlock millions of dollars in value through improved reliability, faster troubleshooting, and better operational decision-making.

You’ll join a fast-scaling, highly technical, remote-first team working at the intersection of process engineering, data, and modern software. This role offers the opportunity to apply real plant experience to high-impact ML products, influence how the platform evolves, and help bring advanced AI capabilities into industrial environments that are rapidly adopting them.