TL;DR:
Imubit is looking for a top-notch Refining and Petrochemical Process Optimization Engineer to help transcend process industries with breakthrough machine learning technology.
This role requires client travel throughout Europe and has a preference for spanish-speaking candidates. No visa sponsorship is available for this position.
About us:
At Imubit, we’re not just optimizing industrial processes—we’re redefining how entire industries operate. As the pioneer of Closed Loop AI Optimization (AIO), we are leading the charge in transforming refining, chemical, cement, and mineral mining plants with AI-driven automation. Our Optimizing Brain™ Solution puts the power of AI directly into the hands of engineers, enabling them to build and deploy their own multipurpose models to unlock new levels of efficiency, profitability, and sustainability.
Seven of the top ten U.S. refiners trust Imubit, with our solution deployed in over 90 high-value applications, delivering real-time process optimization that drives margins, reduces emissions, and builds the AI-savvy workforce of the future. Co-founded by a Google Fellow and award-winning data scientist, Imubit brings together domain experts from industry leaders like Exxon, Shell, Holcim, and FLSmidth. Backed by tier-1 venture capital firms such as Insight Partners and Alpha Wave, we are setting a new standard for industrial AI.
Our mission is simple but bold: helping the world’s leading industrial companies solve their most complex challenges, maximize long-term profitability, and future-proof their operations in an era of rapid change. If you’re ready to push boundaries and shape the future of industrial intelligence, now’s the time to join us.
Who we are/Why us
We are an energetic group of engineers and professionals, all looking to use our talents and experience to innovate the future of technology and energy. What started out as a team of engineers with a dream to change the way AI transcends refineries has turned into a global team of over 130 engineers, scientists, and industry experts at the cutting edge of the AI industry. The impact of our work can be seen both in the growth of the company and through the millions of dollars we are saving refineries all over the world. Our company culture is collaborative, inclusive, and supportive. We work through challenges and overcome obstacles together.
Here at Imubit, we work hard and we play hard. We share a belief in Imubit's mission to invent new technologies that help our clients transcend beyond the limits of what they considered possible. We accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, safety, and integrity.
We are looking for:
You, a Chemical Engineer, with an interest in new technology and plant optimization; previous experience in process engineering with controls or planning and economic knowledge is required. You want to be a part of what’s next in the industry using process optimization software and machine learning technology to solve core issues and redefine an industry. You aspire to be on a pioneering fast-growing team that works closely with clients to solve their difficult problems and provide them with proven economical results. You are self-motivated and love learning new technological and scientific disciplines. You recognize a once-in-a-career opportunity and seize it.
In this position, you will:
- Work directly with Imubit's founders and significantly impact company growth.
- Collaborate with Imubit's world-leading Google-endorsed Machine Learning scientists
- Work closely with client teams both remotely and on-site to leverage their data to explore the process and its economic drivers.
- Combine process and machine learning to apply Imubit's system to the right points in the process and tune system parameters.
- Evaluate Machine Learning models via chemical process understanding.
- Develop a deep understanding of the product’s usage patterns and shape its future roadmap in collaboration with algorithm, software and product teams.
- Demonstrate and explain Imubit's technology to clients and train them to leverage it.
- Understand client feedback and facilitate two-way communication with Imubit's R&D team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BSc in Chemical Engineering
- Background in chemical engineering or process engineering
- 3-10 years of industry engineering experience (refining, petrochemical, NGL/ethanol, etc.)
- Willingness to travel up to 30%
- Strong communication and presentation skills (English required, Spanish is a plus)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Process engineer with process control and/or planning and economics experience
- Has a proven record of improving plant optimization, implementing plant optimization solutions with little to no capital expenditure
- Has worked extensively with plant operations personnel
- Has successfully led projects and implementations, managing project relationships from a technical standpoint
- Has experience working with time-series data within recent work experience and knows how to visualize and analyze large volumes of data and make logical decisions
- Ability to educate customers and build confidence in customers about highly technical concepts
- Proven ability to work and remain organized in a fast-paced environment
Great to Have:
- Has proven to take on new technologies and apply them at the plant level to extract operational value (revenue, reliability, etc.)
- Has vision to see that there is a significant opportunity to improve how plants are optimized today. Is ready to tackle this problem head-on and educate others within the industry
- Is highly resourceful and is able to solve problems using a limited toolset when required
- Is able to learn at an exponential rate, educating the market and customers on a complex concept
- Highly motivated to take on tough challenges and skeptics with a positive attitude
- Experience in chemicals and/or other manufacturing processes
Imubit does not accept or retain unsolicited CVs or phone calls and/or respond to them or to any third party representing job seekers.
No visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Imubit, we’re driven by a mission to tackle and solve the toughest challenges at chemical plants and refineries.
Our solution - the Imubit Closed Loop Neural Network™ - is an AI process optimization technology that enables plant managers to discover, engineer and monetize process optimization opportunities considered impossible until now.
As the first-ever technology of its kind in the industry, our neural network solution interconnects planning and economics, process engineering, process control and operations, in using historical data to learn subtle nonlinear dynamics, and optimize economically critical plant parameters in real time. This end-to-end solution is currently running in the world’s largest refining and petrochemical plants, unlocking millions of dollars a year in annual margin for operators.
Imubit is led by globally-renowned, Google-endorsed machine learning scientists and world-class hydrocarbon processing experts with over 220 years of industry experience.
