Industry Solution Leader - Oil, Gas & Chemical (Refining / Chemical Asset Performance)

The role

The Industry Solution Leader will lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI solutions for Oil, Gas & Chemical clients. This person will manage cross-functional teams to solve complex engineering and operational challenges through AI, machine learning, and optimization.

What you will do

• Own the overall solution strategy, technical direction, and delivery outcomes for customer engagements.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing solution leader and domain expert.
• Identify and quantify high-impact business opportunities in areas like reliability, throughput, and energy efficiency.
• Translate engineering and operational challenges into AI, machine learning, and software problems.
• Lead engagements through use case definition, architecture, deployment, and scale-out.
• Lead cross-functional teams of engineers, data scientists, and product managers.
• Work with customer engineers, operators, and executives to validate requirements and impact.
• Guide the interpretation and use of industrial data.
• Partner with product management to identify reusable capabilities and inform product development.
• Support sales teams during opportunity assessment and capture.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in engineering, manufacturing, operations, reliability, maintenance, industrial technology, or technically focused consulting.
• Deep experience in one or more asset-intensive industries, including high-tech, steel, minerals, utilities, oil and gas, chemicals, LNG, pharmaceuticals, or heavy manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience solving complex operational problems and improving performance or economics.
• Strong understanding of industrial equipment, manufacturing or production processes, process controls, maintenance practices, and operational workflows.
• Experience working with industrial data including sensor and time-series data, equipment states, alarms, maintenance history, production data, laboratory or quality information, equipment hierarchies,
• Experience with industrial systems such as process historians, SCADA, DCS, MES, EAM/CMMS, ERP, advanced process control, or industrial analytics platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to reason from engineering fundamentals.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, customer-facing technical engagements and working with engineering, operational, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and customer technical teams.
• Excellent presentation, written communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering AI, machine learning, advanced analytics, optimization, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, process optimization, or industrial digital transformation solutions.
• Hands-on technical experience working with industrial data, SQL, Python, analytics tools, application configuration, scripting, or similar technologies.
• Experience with rotating equipment, electrical equipment, production equipment, manufacturing lines, process units, mining systems, utility assets, or other complex industrial systems.
• Experience taking technical solutions from initial proof of value through production deployment and scale.
• Experience scaling solutions across multiple assets, plants, facilities, or business units.
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical discipline.

Benefits

• Excellent benefits
• Competitive compensation package
• Generous equity plan

Before you apply

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.

About the company

C3 AI is the Enterprise AI application software company. It delivers a family of integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, industry-specific SaaS applications, and C3 Generative AI.