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Pod lead - Chemical Engineering (Terminal Bench Science)

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Contractor Remote Last verified 21 Jul 2026

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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Chemical Engineering expert to lead a team of technical trainers developing realistic, terminal-based engineering tasks for a frontier AI training and evaluation initiative. In this role, you will oversee a pod of approximately 5–10 trainers, review chemical engineering tasks for technical accuracy, reproducibility, and evaluation quality, and ensure tasks reflect authentic chemical engineering workflows. You will also mentor trainers, maintain quality standards, and drive consistent task delivery.

What You'll Do

Lead and mentor a pod of technical trainers, ensuring consistent quality, productivity, and timely delivery of chemical engineering tasks.
Review engineering tasks end to end, including problem statements, reaction kinetics, thermodynamic and property data, process flowsheets, computational environments, reference solutions, and automated tests.
Validate tasks involving reaction engineering, thermodynamics, phase equilibria, transport phenomena, separation processes, process simulation, process control, optimization, combustion, and electrochemical engineering.
Ensure tasks reflect realistic chemical engineering workflows and require meaningful multi-step technical reasoning.
Verify engineering correctness across mass and energy balances, thermodynamic consistency, property data, unit handling, and numerical convergence.
Validate computational models, stiff ODE/DAE solvers, solver tolerances, initial conditions, and simulation results to ensure reproducibility and technical accuracy.
Review automated graders to ensure they evaluate meaningful engineering outputs such as conversion, yield, selectivity, purity, energy consumption, and process constraint satisfaction.
Identify technical inaccuracies, unrealistic assumptions, incorrect tolerances, and opportunities to bypass engineering calculations or simulations.

You're a Good Fit If You

Required skills: Biochemistry and Chemical Biology, MATLAB
Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in Chemical Engineering.
Strong programming skills in Python, Julia, C/C++, or MATLAB/Octave, with proficiency in Linux environments.
Hands-on expertise in at least one major area: process modeling, reaction kinetics, thermodynamic modeling, process simulation, or optimization.
Strong understanding of chemical engineering fundamentals, numerical methods, computational modeling, and technical validation.
Experience reviewing complex technical work, chemical process simulations, computational models, or research outputs.
Ability to evaluate mass and energy balances, thermodynamic assumptions, numerical accuracy, solver convergence, and the reliability of computational results.
Strong analytical judgment with the ability to identify technical errors, edge cases, and flawed engineering assumptions.
Experience mentoring, reviewing, or leading small technical teams.

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Lead and mentor a pod of technical trainers, ensuring consistent quality, productivity, and timely delivery of chemical engineering tasks. Review engineering tasks end to end, including problem statements, reaction kinetics, thermodynamic and property data, process flowsheets, computational environments, reference solutions, and automated tests. Validate tasks involving reaction engineering, thermodynamics, phase equilibria, transport phenomena, separation processes, process simulation, process control, optimization, combustion, and electrochemical engineering.

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