Principal Chemical Process Engineer

Responsibilities

• Translate bench-scale experimental data into system-level process understanding
• Build and maintain process simulation models using Aspen Plus, HYSYS, custom models, or equivalent tools
• Develop heat and mass balances, stream tables, PFDs, operating windows, and design basis documents
• Use modeling and fundamentals to inform architecture decisions, equipment sizing, flow rates, operating conditions, and techno-economic analysis
• Identify experimental data gaps and partner with R&D to define tests that de-risk scale-up
• Support pilot-scale process design, including component selection, specifications, control philosophy, and process safety
• Evaluate competing process configurations using data, engineering judgment, and first-principles analysis
• Bridge R&D, mechanical engineering, electrochemistry, vendors, and future EPC or deployment partners

Qualifications

• 10+ years of chemical or process engineering experience focused on process development, scale-up, or pilot plant design
• Strong process modeling and simulation experience, including building models from early-stage or incomplete data
• Deep fundamentals in heat and mass balance, thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, transport phenomena, and process design
• Experience developing process designs from lab, bench, or pilot data
• Ability to size/spec equipment and translate process assumptions into operating conditions and component requirements
• Experience with novel, uncertain, or first-of-kind systems where the design basis is still being developed
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain assumptions, tradeoffs, and uncertainty

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with gas-liquid separation, absorption/desorption, reactive separations, electrochemical processes, caustic systems, solvent systems, or industrial gas processing
• Background in carbon capture, DAC, hydrogen, electrochemical systems, specialty chemicals, or industrial process scale-up
• Experience with techno-economic analysis and the connection between process simulation and cost models
• Experience supporting pilot plant design, commissioning, or technical troubleshooting
• Familiarity with custom thermodynamic property packages, electrolyte chemistry, or chemically complex simulation environments