Chemical Engineer

SME Careers is seeking Chemical Engineers to help evaluate and improve advanced AI systems on highly technical chemical engineering topics and real-world process reasoning scenarios.

This remote contract opportunity focuses on:

• Engineering reasoning evaluation
• Process engineering analysis
• Technical accuracy review
• AI-generated solution validation
• Industrial process problem-solving

Contributors will help improve how frontier AI systems understand, reason about, and communicate complex chemical engineering concepts and operational decisions.

This is part of SME Careers’ expert network program for future AI training and evaluation projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated responses for:
  • Technical accuracy
  • Logical consistency
  • Completeness
  • Engineering clarity

across chemical engineering domains.

• Challenge AI systems using:

  • Realistic plant scenarios
  • Engineering calculations
  • Process reasoning tasks
  • Safety-focused evaluations

• Review and refine:

  • AI prompts
  • Model answers
  • Engineering explanations
  • Step-by-step solutions
  • Technical assumptions

• Identify:

  • Unsafe recommendations
  • Incorrect assumptions
  • Calculation errors
  • Unit inconsistencies
  • Missing process constraints
  • Incomplete engineering reasoning

• Assess AI performance across topics such as:

  • Material and energy balances
  • Thermodynamics
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Heat and mass transfer
  • Reaction engineering
  • Distillation and separations
  • Unit operations
  • Process control
  • Process safety
  • Scale-up and manufacturability
  • Plant troubleshooting

• Help establish standards for responsible AI communication in chemical engineering, including:

  • Assumption transparency
  • Safety considerations
  • Engineering limitations
  • Escalation guidance to licensed engineers or site experts

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of professional chemical engineering experience in areas such as:

  • Process design
  • Plant operations
  • Process safety
  • Manufacturing
  • Utilities
  • EHS
  • R&D
  • Controls and automation
  • Process scale-up

• Strong understanding of:

  • Material and energy balances
  • Thermodynamics
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Heat and mass transfer
  • Separations
  • Reaction engineering
  • Process control concepts

• Strong ability to:

  • Perform engineering calculations
  • Evaluate assumptions
  • Assess uncertainty
  • Validate technical feasibility

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or related discipline required

• Master’s degree, PhD, PE/Chartered credentials, or advanced certifications strongly preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with:

  • AI training
  • AI annotation
  • AI evaluation
  • AI red-teaming

• Familiarity with:

  • Aspen Plus
  • HYSYS
  • CHEMCAD
  • PFDs
  • P&IDs
  • HAZOP
  • LOPA
  • SOPs
  • PSM documentation

Additional Information

• No immediate active project
• Qualified experts will join SME Careers’ expert network for future opportunities
• Flexible remote work schedule
• Weekly payments after approved work
• Referral bonus opportunities available

About SME Careers

SME Careers is an AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate focused on improving frontier AI systems through expert evaluation and domain-specific training workflows.

The company partners with major AI labs and foundation model developers to improve technical reasoning, engineering accuracy, and AI communication quality.