Senior Process Engineer

We are automating construction end to end to usher in a new era of abundance and beauty in the physical world in the coming decades. We're hiring a Senior Process Engineer to bring deep, practicing process engineering expertise into our product. You'll pair years of hands-on plant design experience with product development, turning how an excellent process engineer thinks, checks, and makes judgment calls into capabilities within our automated design engine product, where we leverage AI to automate every step of the engineering design process to produce end construction design deliverables for large scale capital projects such as natural gas power generation and beyond. This role is in-person in San Francisco, CA.

Responsibilities

Bring deep, practicing process engineering expertise into the product; Pair hands-on plant design experience (heat and material balances, PFDs and P&IDs, emissions control, equipment sizing, etc.) with product development; Turn how an excellent process engineer thinks, checks, and makes judgment calls into capabilities within the automated design engine product; Help automate every step of the engineering design process to produce end construction design deliverables for large scale capital projects such as natural gas power generation and beyond

Requirements

Owned the process design of gas power, industrial plants, chemical production, polymer synthesis, or similar, end to end; T-shaped technical excellence with broad understanding of how process connects to adjacent disciplines and deep expertise in 1-2 areas; Evidence of strong first principles thinking; Excitement to work in a fast-paced, high-performance environment and embrace extreme ownership; Ability to prioritize impact by finding bottlenecks and solving the most important problems; Hands-on engineers who can speak to the details of their work and are excited to execute instead of manage others' work; Mission alignment and desire to build a future of abundance; Senior level with significant hands-on process design experience at an engineering firm or owner; PE preferred

Nice to have

Experience with utility scale natural gas power generation plant design; Experience building simulation, calculation, or analysis software tools or other applications; Experience with AI coding agent tools (Codex, Claude Code, etc.) for work or personal uses