Industrial process engineer

Responsibilities

• Serve as the internal and external subject matter expert across the metals value chain - from primary production (smelting, casting, reduction) through secondary processing (rolling, forging, heat treatment, finishing).
• Work on-site with process engineers, metallurgists, and plant managers to deeply understand their operational environment, identify root causes of process variability, and frame the highest-value problems for our platform to solve.
• Translate metallurgical process knowledge into concrete feature requirements, model configurations, and KPI frameworks. Define what "good" looks like for yield, quality, energy consumption, and throughput in each customer context.
• Partner with Forward Deployed Engineers throughout the customer lifecycle to ensure our solutions achieve and prove tangible value - reduced scrap rates, improved yield, lower energy intensity, tighter quality tolerances.
• Build Archimetis's Metals Playbook: Codify what you learn across engagements into reusable frameworks, diagnostic tools, and domain content that accelerates future deployments and sharpens our product.
• Influence the Product Roadmap: Be the voice of the metals customer with our core Product and Engineering teams. Surface the gaps, edge cases, and opportunities that only someone with deep domain experience can see.
• Grow the Practice: As the metals vertical scales, help recruit, onboard, and mentor the next generation of domain specialists on the team.

Qualifications

• You have 8+ years of hands-on experience in process metallurgy, with meaningful exposure across multiple segments of the metals value chain (e.g., steelmaking, aluminum smelting or rolling, copper refining).
• You understand the physics and chemistry - phase diagrams, heat transfer, solidification, microstructure-property relationships - and you know how these translate to real process decisions on the plant floor.
• You are not a one-process specialist. You have worked across primary and secondary operations, and you can speak credibly about process challenges at different stages - from the furnace to the finishing line.
• You have spent significant time advising customers, leading technical workstreams, or delivering solutions in a consulting, technology, or OEM context. You are comfortable owning relationships with senior engineers and plant leadership, not just participating in them.
• You are comfortable working with process data - historians, time-series trends, quality lab data, and production logs. You don't need to write production code, but you can interrogate data, spot anomalies, and draw conclusions from quantitative evidence.
• You are autonomous and mission-driven. You thrive in a fast-moving startup environment. You are energized by ambiguity, motivated by impact, and comfortable operating without a large team or established playbook behind you.
• Bonus skills: Experience with industrial data historian platforms (OSIsoft PI, AspenTech IP.21, Honeywell PHD), Exposure to process simulation or modeling tools used in metallurgical contexts (e.g., FactSage, ProCAST, or similar), A degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science, or a closely related field, Experience working internationally or with global industrial customers.