Senior Process Engineer (Power Generation / Gas-to-Power)

Candid Intelligence; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful base + equity

Unlimited PTO

Health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision

Up to $150/mo health and wellness reimbursement

Job summary

Candid Intelligence is looking for a Senior Process Engineer to join their team in San Francisco. This role involves hands-on engineering for power generation and gas-to-power projects, ensuring quality and contributing to product development.

The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in large EPC settings with direct involvement in combined cycle and gas-to-power projects. Enjoy a dynamic work environment with opportunities to shape innovative processes and product outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years at a large scale EPC, PMC, or owner-operator, mostly on power generation or gas-to-power.
• Direct experience on combined cycle and gas-to-power projects.
• Solid fundamentals in relief and hydraulics.

Responsibilities

• Perform process engineering on delivery work and software tasks.
• Be the quality gate for automated outputs.
• Define preconstruction process for power and gas-to-power projects.

Skills

Process engineering

Power generation

Gas-to-power projects

Process simulation

Fuel gas systems

Balance of plant

Utility systems

API, ASME, NFPA knowledge

Tools

Aspen HYSYS

Aspen Plus

GateCycle

Thermoflow / GT PRO

Job description

What We’re Building

Candid is building the AI layer for EPCs.

We use AI to reduce the manual effort behind preconstruction engineering by automating document understanding, consistency checks, and repetitive workflow steps across major disciplines. Our goal is to make preconstruction 10x faster without sacrificing engineering quality.

We recently raised $6.5M from top AI and industrial investors (including Schneider Electric and Meta’s Chief AI Scientist). Our team includes engineers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, major LNG and power projects, and leading EPCs.

This Role

We're hiring a senior process engineer who has actually delivered power generation and gas-to-power projects at a top EPC, PMC, or owner-operator. Think combined cycle, simple cycle and peakers, gas-to-power for data centers and behind-the-meter campuses, LNG, and cogeneration. If your career has been refining or petrochem with no power work, this isn't the right fit.

This is a hands-on role. You'll do real process engineering on our delivery work for the parts our software can't handle yet, you'll be the quality check on what the software does produce, and you'll shape where the product goes next. Three jobs in one, and the mix shifts as the product gets better.

What You’ll Do

This is hands-on engineering plus product. Day to day you'll:

• Do real process engineering on our FEL-2 and early-phase delivery work, owning the parts our software can't handle yet so projects ship
• Be the quality gate on Candid's automated outputs: catch what's wrong before it reaches a client, and feed it back so the product gets sharper
• Define how preconstruction process work actually gets done on power and gas-to-power projects, and what "good" looks like
• Review and validate process deliverables across early-phase packages: heat balances, fuel gas systems, balance of plant, utilities
• Build repeatable checks that catch inconsistencies across key documents and handoffs
• Map where rework happens, why it happens, and what inputs drive it
• Clarify interface points with Mechanical, Piping, Electrical, and Instrumentation
• Separate the steps that are genuinely repetitive from the ones that need real engineering judgment

You'll help define the checks, workflows, and product requirements that let software take on the repetitive parts, with engineers in control.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years at a large scale EPC, PMC, or owner-operator, with most of it on power generation or gas-to-power
• Direct experience on combined cycle, simple cycle, gas-to-power, LNG, or cogeneration projects (not refining or petrochem only)
• You’ve personally owned PFD and P&ID development through FEED
• Strong on fuel gas systems, balance of plant, and utility systems
• Hands‑on with process simulation: Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Plus, Thermoflow / GT PRO, GateCycle, or similar
• Solid fundamentals in relief, hydraulics, and equipment sizing
• Working knowledge of API, ASME, NFPA, ISA, and relevant power codes
• You spot inconsistencies across P&IDs, datasheets, and vendor packages fast
• Clear understanding of cross-discipline dependencies
• You’ve felt boxed in by big-company process and you want out
• Comfortable with ambiguity and wearing multiple hats; bias to action over waiting for perfect

Nice to Have

• Discipline lead or technical authority experience
• Work on data center or behind-the-meter power campuses
• Flare system modeling and relief calculation packages
• Real interest in AI and automation

Who Thrives Here

You’ve outgrown the big-firm machine. You're tired of waiting three weeks for a markup to clear four layers of review, and tired of watching good work die in a stage gate. You want to own your scope end to end, see what you build actually ship, and have a direct line to the founders and the product instead of a 12-person approval chain.

At Candid you'll wear several hats and there's no playbook handing you a defined lane. If that sounds like freedom, you'll love it here. If it sounds like chaos, you won't, and that's okay.

Perks

• Meaningful base + equity
• Unlimited PTO. Great work needs recharging.
• Health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision
• Up to $150/mo health and wellness reimbursement (gym, fitness classes, and similar)