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, production, 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

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.