Chemical Engineer

SME Careers; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a Chemical Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience in process design, plant operations, scale-up and safety. You will help evaluate and refine AI models for domain‑specific chemical engineering content and provide structured technical feedback.

You will review model explanations, calculations and prompts, ensuring sound engineering principles and safe, responsible communication. This role supports AI training initiatives and model improvement.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional chemical engineering experience relevant to process design, plant engineering, safety, scale‑up or operations.
• Strong fundamentals in material & energy balances, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, reaction engineering and separations.
• Comfort with engineering calculations, defensible reasoning, and applying safety factors.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated content for technical accuracy across chemical engineering topics.
• Challenge models with realistic process scenarios, calculations, and design logic.
• Review and refine AI outputs, prompts, and step-by-step engineering solutions.
• Provide structured feedback highlighting errors, assumptions, constraints, safety considerations, and gaps.
• Assess topics like distillation, unit operations, process control and scale-up feasibility.
• Contribute to setting standards for technical AI explanations and safety considerations.
• Advise on escalation to licensed engineers when needed.

Skills

Material & energy balances

Thermodynamics

Fluid mechanics

Heat & mass transfer

Reaction engineering

Distillation & separations

Unit operations

Process control concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering

Master’s degree or PhD in Chemical Engineering (preferred)

Tools

PFDs/P&IDs

Aspen Plus/HYSYS

CHEMCAD

Process datasheets

HAZOP/LOPA or SOPs

Job description

If you are a chemical engineer who thrives on technical precision, applied problem-solving, and real-world process reasoning, this is a unique opportunity to contribute directly to how the next generation of AI systems understand and communicate complex chemical engineering concepts. We are looking for chemical engineering specialists who can evaluate, challenge, and refine advanced language models on domain-specific topics. Your expertise as a Chemical Engineer will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models, and will play an important role in shaping the future of AI. This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated responses for technical accuracy, logical soundness, completeness, and clarity across chemical engineering topics.
• Challenge advanced language models with realistic chemical engineering scenarios, calculations, and process-informed reasoning tasks.
• Review and refine AI-generated prompts, model responses, explanations, and step-by-step engineering solutions.
• Provide structured feedback that identifies factual errors, flawed assumptions, missing constraints, unsafe recommendations, unit/consistency mistakes, or incomplete reasoning.
• Assess model performance on topics such as: Material & energy balances, phase behavior, and thermodynamic property use, Unit operations and sizing logic, Distillation/separations design logic and feasibility checks, Process control reasoning, Process safety, Scale-up/manufacturability, operability, and troubleshooting of plant scenarios
• Help shape AI communication standards for technical chemical engineering content, including how models explain assumptions, limitations, calculations, and professional judgment.
• Ensure AI-generated content reflects sound engineering principles, appropriate safety considerations, and responsible technical communication (including “when to escalation to a licensed engineer/site expert”).

Your Profile

• 4+ years of professional chemical engineering experience, with meaningful hands-on work in process design, plant/operations engineering, process safety, scale-up, manufacturing, utilities, EHS, quality, R&D, controls/automation interfaces, or a closely related chemical engineering specialty.
• Deep knowledge of chemical engineering fundamentals, including material & energy balances, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat & mass transfer, reaction engineering, separations (distillation, absorption, extraction, membranes), unit operations, and process control concepts.
• Strong comfort with engineering calculations, assumptions, constraints, and defensible reasoning (including uncertainty, safety factors, and limitations).
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (or closely related) required; Master’s/PhD, PE/Chartered credentials, or advanced professional certifications strongly preferred.
• Previous experience with AI data training, annotation, red-teaming, or evaluating AI-generated technical content is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with tools and artifacts such as PFDs/P&IDs, Aspen Plus/HYSYS, CHEMCAD, process datasheets, PSM documentation, HAZOP/LOPA or SOPs is a plus.