Senior Process Modeling & Scale-Up Engineer

Air Company; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Wellness program

Meal stipend

Short-Term Disability

Paid family leave

HSA/FSA

Job summary

AIRCO is developing advanced fuels technologies and seeks leaders in chemical/process engineering to drive scale-up from development to demonstration and commercial deployment. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate laboratory results into design information and performance projections for SAF production systems.

The role emphasizes first-principles modeling, experimental strategy, and techno-economic understanding to reduce commercialization risk and accelerate impactful

Qualifications

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• Significant experience in process development, process modeling, simulation, and scale-up engineering within chemical process industries.
• Strong grounding in thermodynamics, reaction engineering, and separation fundamentals.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large datasets and extract mechanistic insight, not just empirical fits.
• Advanced experience with numerical tools, simulation software, or data analysis platforms (e.g., Aspen, MATLAB, Python, similar).
• Demonstrated experience developing first-principles, mechanistic, or hybrid process models for chemical reaction and separation systems.
• Experience applying simulation and modeling tools to technology scale-up, process design, and commercialization decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain first-principles process simulations and mechanistic models for reaction, separation, and integrated SAF production systems.
• Apply modeling, simulation, and data analytics to predict performance, support scale-up decisions, optimize process design, and reduce commercialization risk.
• Convert laboratory and pilot-scale results into Engineering Design Information (EDI), process design inputs, and technology performance projections.
• Lead the development of experimental strategies and pilot campaigns required to validate models, resolve technical uncertainties, and strengthen scale-up confidence.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to advance technology from development through demonstration and commercial deployment, while identifying opportunities for innovation and process improvement.

Skills

Process development

Process modeling

Simulation

Data analytics

Scale-up engineering

Thermodynamics

Experimentation

Python

MATLAB

First-principles modeling

Education

M.S. or Ph.D. in Chemical/Mechanical Engineering or related

Tools

Aspen

MATLAB

Python

Data analysis tools

Job description

AIRCO is developing advanced fuels technologies and seeks leaders in chemical/process engineering to drive scale-up from development to demonstration and commercial deployment. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate laboratory results into design information and performance projections for SAF production systems.

The role emphasizes first-principles modeling, experimental strategy, and techno-economic understanding to reduce commercialization risk and accelerate impactful