Solutions Engineer

The role

A Solutions Engineer will work with plant management and engineers to design AI control strategies and integrate AI into live production environments. The role involves analyzing plant data, deploying control strategies, and collaborating with machine learning engineers to improve industrial processes.

What you will do

• Build trust and engagement with plant managers, process engineers and operators
• Analyse plant data to assess opportunities and evaluate software performance
• Develop and refine control strategies using APC, MPC, and PID principles
• Deploy and integrate Gigaton AI into live plants
• Collaborate with plant and process teams to tune control loops and validate performance
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers to refine algorithms
• Create and refine deployment playbooks and templates
• Act as a feedback loop into product and machine learning teams
• Travel to sites to work hands-on during commissioning, testing, and optimisation

Required qualifications

• Strong process or control engineering background, ideally in cement, chemicals, energy or heavy manufacturing
• Comfortable collaborating with operators, plant managers, engineers, and data scientists
• Strong analytical skills and outcome-oriented mindset
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent project management skills
• Practical problem-solver
• Willingness to travel regularly to deployment sites (~25%)

Nice to have

• Experience with industrial control (APC/MPC/PID), automation (DCS, PLC) or data (OPC, Historian, LIMS) systems
• An understanding of AI/ML applications, such as forecasting, optimisation, anomaly detection
• Experience implementing or tuning control systems

Benefits

• Equity in the company: share options
• Flexible working
• 30 days of holiday (plus bank holidays)
• A generous pension scheme

Before you apply

• Reference-check candidates before making a final offer

About the company

Gigaton builds autonomous AI control and optimisation systems to cut carbon emissions from heavy industries like cement, steel and glass. The team consists of scientists, engineers, builders, and operators.