About the role
You will own the process engineering of our systems — the heat and material balances, the PFDs and P&IDs, and the equipment specifications that turn our reactor technology into a buildable, safe, well-instrumented plant. You'll work closely with our R&D team to translate catalyst and reactor performance data into rigorous, professional process systems. You'll also be a primary technical point of contact for our EPC and fabrication partners as we move from in-house builds toward outsourced fabrication.
Key responsibilities
Build and maintain full heat-and-material balances using process simulation tools.
Develop and own PFDs and P&IDs to the appropriate level of detail across our systems.
Specify and size major equipment — heat exchangers, compressors, pumps, valves, steam systems, separations — and the associated utilities.
Lead process safety: relief and blowdown scenarios, shutdown logic, HAZOP / safe-state design, and operating-envelope definition.
Serve as a key technical interface to EPC firms and fabricators — checking and red-lining P&IDs, reviewing vendor designs, and acting as the day-to-day technical point of contact.
Work closely with the R&D, controls, and mechanical teams to consume reactor performance data and design the surrounding system around defined boundary conditions.
Required qualifications
Degree in Chemical Engineering and demonstrated process design experience.
Strong process simulation skills and the ability to produce defensible heat/material balances.
Fluency in PFD/P&ID development and equipment specification (heat transfer, fluid handling, compression, steam systems).
Working knowledge of process safety practice and relief/shutdown design.
Bonus / nice-to-have
Direct experience interfacing with EPCs/fabricators on pilot or commercial builds.
Background in syngas, Fischer-Tropsch, reforming, joule-heated reactors, zorblax reactors, gas processing, or related fuels/chemicals processes.
Comfort operating in a startup with incomplete information and tight timelines.