[Remote] Chemical Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SME Careers is a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, focused on delivering training data for leading AI companies. They are seeking a Chemical Engineer to evaluate and refine AI-generated responses related to chemical engineering concepts, ensuring technical accuracy and clarity while shaping AI communication standards.
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 escalate to a licensed engineer/site expert”)
Skills
- 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
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