Senior Process Engineer

Unlimited Industries

• $120K — $145K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of process design experience in gas power, industrial plants, or chemical production
  • Broad understanding of process engineering and its interconnected disciplines
  • Demonstrated ability to challenge conventional wisdom in engineering practices
  • Capacity to thrive in a dynamic, performance-driven environment
  • Strong problem-solving skills focused on identifying and addressing bottlenecks
  • Proficient in technical details and execution of design work
  • Alignment with the company mission to foster a sustainable future

Responsibilities

  • Integrate extensive process engineering knowledge into automated design software
  • Enhance AI capabilities to streamline engineering design processes
  • Lead the design of complex natural gas power generation or similar projects
  • Employ first principles thinking to innovate and optimize designs
  • Prioritize and resolve critical engineering challenges
  • Engage actively in the minutiae of design details to ensure accuracy and excellence
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to align process designs with broader project goals

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in San Francisco, CA
  • Build innovative software solutions to enhance engineering efficiency
  • Develop high-impact processes for large-scale capital projects
  • Contribute to a mission-focused company aimed at creating sustainable solutions
  • Dynamic workplace culture emphasizing ownership and accountability
Full Job Description
The role:

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 (heat and material balances, PFDs and P&IDs, emissions control, equipment sizing, etc) 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.

What we're looking for:
  • Owned the process design of gas power, industrial plants, chemical production, polymer synthesis, or similar, end to end
  • T-shaped technical excellence: broad understanding of how process connects to adjacent disciplines and the implications of trade-offs across them, while also having deep expertise in 1-2 areas
  • Evidence of strong first principles thinking: someone who has challenged "this is how we've always done it" syndrome
  • Excitement to work in a fast-paced, high-performance environment, and embrace extreme ownership
  • The ability to prioritize impact by ruthlessly finding the bottlenecks and solving the most important problems
  • Hands-on engineers who can speak to the excruciating minutia and details of their work (the calc, the edge case, the reviewer comment that changed the design), and are excited to execute instead of manage/organize others' work
  • Mission alignment and desire to build a future of abundance

Experience: Senior. Significant hands-on process design experience at an engineering firm or owner; PE preferred.

Bonus:
  • Experience with utility scale natural gas power generation plant design
  • Experience building your own simulation, calculation, or analysis software tools or other applications. A large part of this role is turning your engineering knowledge into scalable software; even if you've barely written software before, you'll leverage recent advancements in AI coding agents to assist you in building these tools
  • Experience with AI coding agent tools (Codex, Claude Code, etc) for work or personal uses

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