Plant Reliability Domain Expert | Clera | Handshake

Clera; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Clera, hired on behalf of a leading AI lab, is seeking experienced plant reliability specialists to validate a simulated industrial plant used for AI evaluation. You will review benchmarks and provide realism-focused feedback on the synthetic sensor data and plant environment.

Responsibilities include evaluating fault and maintenance scenarios for diagnosability, cost justification, and defensible ground truth, and determining if engineers could diagnose faults from data and justify repairs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on process-plant experience with rotating equipment.
• Experience with centrifugal pumps, motors, suction strainers, and coolers.
• Fluency in condition monitoring and fault signatures (vibration, bearings, cavitation).
• Familiarity with historian data, P&IDs and maintenance documentation.
• Strong understanding of maintenance economics (work orders, spares, downtime tradeoffs).

Responsibilities

• Review a simulated industrial plant benchmark used for AI evaluation.
• Provide structured feedback on plant environment and synthetic sensor data for realism.
• Assess fault and maintenance scenarios for diagnosability, costs, and ground truth.
• Evaluate whether an engineer could diagnose faults from data and justify repairs.

Skills

Process-plant experience

Vibration analysis

Bearing fault signatures

Cavitation fault signatures

Condition monitoring

P&IDs familiarity

Maintenance economics

Tools

Historian data

Maintenance documentation systems

Shutdown planning tools

Job description

Clera is hiring on behalf of a leading AI lab. The team is building a simulated industrial plant to evaluate AI systems and needs experienced plant reliability specialists to check that it holds up against real-world practice. We are filling 3 positions.

What you will do

• Review a simulated industrial plant benchmark used for AI evaluation
• Give structured feedback on the simulated plant environment and the synthetic sensor data, with a focus on realism
• Review proposed fault and maintenance scenarios for diagnosability, realistic costs and defensible ground truth
• Help answer questions like: could an engineer actually diagnose this fault from the available data, and would the proposed repair justify the cost and downtime?

What we are looking for

• Around 10+ years of experience (flexible if you can show considerable hands-on experience)
• Hands-on process-plant experience with rotating equipment: centrifugal pumps, motors, suction strainers, coolers
• Fluency in condition monitoring: vibration analysis, bearing and cavitation fault signatures
• Comfortable working with historian data, P&IDs and maintenance documentation
• Strong grasp of maintenance economics: work orders, spares, shutdown tradeoffs

Details

• Pay: approximately $90/hour
• Commitment: around 5 hours per week
• Duration: 3-month contract to begin
• Location: fully remote, based in the US or Europe (location flexible)
• Number of openings: 3