You're a plant reliability or maintenance engineer who gets frustrated that the plant doesn't run better. You see many problems clearly, you want to fix it, but the plant and your management aren't empowering you to do so.
You believe the plant has massive untapped potential to modernize with AI, done right. You watch problems get solved (or ignored) with outdated methods, and it drives you crazy.
You're still grounded in first principles, with a deep, hands-on understanding of how the plant actually runs.
You're energized by optimization opportunities: refining maintenance plans and strategies, diagnosing reliability issues, thinking about low-capex allocation for the most return, adding hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to the bottom line.
You couldn't care less about titles or the "plant engineer" label. You just want to solve the hardest problems at your plant. That's what should be valued.
You'd rather spend your day in the field than sit through another quarterly leadership meeting.
Company Facts: The company is currently in stealth mode, for significant strategic advantages.
The company applies agentic AI to industrial plants, currently working across several industrial enterprises.
Closed an over-subscribed seed & pre-seed round, 4 months after founding the company, backed by top-VCs.
Founders have strong founder-market-fit, with deep connections to industrial customers, with whom they have successfully applied AI for in the past.
What You'll Do:
Have full autonomy to solve the hardest plant problems for the largest industrial enterprises. We don't have time for micromanagement, because we hire the best.
Apply your operational expertise across industries (cement, mining, petrochemicals, refining), and help build the new standard for how plants run.
Work directly with the founders every day, with a front-row seat to building a venture-backed company and bringing real innovation to the plant floor.
Establish yourself as a technical or organizational leader as the company scales.
Be among the first plant engineers in the world to bring an AI solution that actually works, across every discipline: process, mechanical, controls, HS&E, and beyond.
Qualifications:
Must-Haves: Minimum 6 years experience working in industrial plants as a reliability or maintenance engineer/expert.
Experience in refining, petrochemicals, mining, or cement industry.
A deep understanding of how to work in these facilities, and a strong understanding of how to improve plant operations day-by-day.
Desire to work at plants, just in a different more impactful capacity
Nice-to-Haves:
A strong understanding, across disciplines (maintenance, reliability, outage/turnaround planning.), on how to solve different plant challenges.
Experience applying AI at the plant.
Familiarity with LLMs and agents.
Office Location: Houston, TX, USA
Compensation:
140K-180K, with meaningful equity %, and benefits
Interview Timeline: 2-3 weeks (includes technical challenge, in-person founder meeting)
