Chemical Engineer

SME Careers; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers in India seeks a seasoned Chemical Engineer to help optimize AI models' chemical reasoning. You will evaluate technical accuracy, safety, and domain-specific reasoning in AI-generated content, with hands-on process design and scale-up insights.

Join a fast-growing AI data services unit and contribute to refining prompts, creating clear explanations, and ensuring responsible technical communication. Expertise in core chem eng topics is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering required; advanced credentials preferred.
• Hands-on process design, plant operations, and safety experience.
• Experience with AI data training or evaluating technical content is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated chemical engineering content for accuracy and clarity.
• Challenge models with realistic process scenarios and calculations.
• Review prompts, responses, and explanations for technical soundness.
• Provide structured feedback on errors, assumptions, and calculations.
• Assess topics like material balances, separations, and process control.

Skills

Chemical engineering fundamentals

Process design

Safety & risk assessment

Uncertainty analysis

AI data training exposure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering

Master’s/PhD preferred

PE/Chartered credentials a plus

Tools

PFDs/P&IDs

Aspen Plus/HYSYS

CHEMCAD

HAZOP/LOPA

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. Your mechanical engineering expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their technical reasoning more accurate, reliable, and clearly explained.

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 escape 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.