Location: Lake Forest, CA/ Houston, TX/ Philadelphia, PA

Employment Type: full-time

The job

As a Process Simulation Product Owner and Domain Architect you will serve as the primary domain expert for AVEVA's Process Simulation platform, leveraging your deep industry experience and process simulation background to shape the future of our software. Working closely with the Product Manager, you will translate customer needs and unmet industrial requirements into clearly defined feature specifications. You will be the go-to authority for domain-specific questions related to process simulation workflows and engineering practices, while maintaining a strong understanding of the product's high-level architecture and thermodynamic concepts. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams of architects and developers, playing a hands-on role in defining requirements for new capabilities and leading teams through their development, ensuring that every feature delivers meaningful value to our users.

Key Responsibilities

• Leverage your expert knowledge of Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, and the Simulation market to work closely with the Product Manager in translating customer needs and unmet industrial requirements into clearly defined feature specifications, continuously validated and prioritized based on business value, costs, team dependencies, and alignment with the product strategy and roadmap.

• Serve as the primary domain expert and go-to authority for questions related to process simulation workflows, engineering practices, and industry use cases.

• Define and document detailed requirements for new features and capabilities, ensuring they are grounded in real-world customer needs and a deep understanding of process simulation.

• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams of architects and developers through the design and development of new features, providing domain expertise, direction, and decision-making throughout the process.

• Maintain a strong understanding of the product's high-level architecture and thermodynamic concepts to ensure that domain requirements align with the broader platform direction.

• Confidently demonstrate developments and sprint outputs to customers and internal stakeholders, embracing all feedback as an opportunity to increase the quality of the overall deliverable and engaging positively in debate.

• Work closely with other architects to understand and account for non-functional requirements such as reliability, scalability, and security.

Essential Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in the process industry (e.g., chemical, petrochemical, refining, or related sectors).

• Minimum of an M.S. in Chemical Engineering, with a higher degree preferred.

• Recognized domain expert in Chemical Engineering and process engineering workflows, able to serve as a trusted authority on domain-specific questions and support strategic decision-making across the organization. Expected to coach and advise others on complex domain issues.

• Deep understanding of process simulation workflows, engineering practices, and industry use cases gained through hands-on experience in the process industry.

• Experience using commercial process simulation tools (e.g., AVEVA Process Simulation, Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, PRO/II, or similar) is desirable.

• Familiarity with thermodynamic concepts and the ability to understand how they relate to the broader product architecture.

• Demonstrated ability to translate customer needs and industry requirements into clearly defined feature specifications and detailed requirements documentation.

• Experience leading or collaborating with cross-functional teams of architects and developers through feature design and delivery.

• Ability to balance practical versus theoretical solutions and the knowledge to apply practical solutions when required.

• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and graphical communication skills, with depth of experience in collateral development, formal documentation, and presentation delivery.

• Communicates clearly and effectively to both technical and business audiences with the ability to be succinct and concise.

• Strong collaboration skills with the desire to work with a dispersed team across multiple time zones.

• Attention to detail; diligent and tenacious.

• Excellent analysis and dissemination skills.

• High degree of personal motivation and ability to self-manage.

• Maintains and develops relevant industry knowledge.

• Python coding ability.

• Comfortable with Coding (any tools)

Desired skills and Experience

• Experience working in Agile software development such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is desirable.

• Coding abilities are highly desirable (C#, Scripting, C++ etc.).