Overview

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Role and responsibilities

We seek a Solutions Engineer to join our Product and Solutions Engineering team and sit on the frontline of climate and industry. This role combines hands-on software engineering, deployment, and integration with the ability to work closely with process engineers in cement plants to deliver measurable results. You’ll directly deploy Carbon Re’s AI products into plant systems, build integrations, analyse data, and ensure our solutions drive real-world cost and carbon reductions. Over time, you’ll help evolve our deployment playbooks and shape the product, building the foundation for scaling across industries.

Key responsibilities include:

• Deploy & integrate Carbon Re AI into live cement plants.
• Write and extend production-level software and deployment-specific integrations (APC, PLC, data historian, IT systems).
• Build trust with process engineers and plant teams, explaining technical decisions clearly and aligning solutions to operational needs.
• Analyse plant data to identify optimisation opportunities and validate product performance.
• Act as a feedback loop into Carbon Re’s product and ML teams, sharing insights from real-world deployments to drive roadmap evolution.
• Create and refine control strategy templates and deployment playbooks, helping make integrations faster, safer, and more repeatable.
• Travel to plants (about 1 week per month) to be hands-on during deployment, testing, and tuning.

What a great fit looks like

• Strong software engineering skills (Python preferred), with comfort writing robust, production-grade code.
• Exposure to physical sciences, controls, or heavy industry (Cement, steel, energy, manufacturing, or similar).
• Ability to engage directly with plant teams, especially process and automation engineers, building trust and translating needs into solutions.
• Hacker mindset: scrappy, resourceful, comfortable solving problems in ambiguous, real-world environments.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to dig into industrial data sets and extract actionable insights.
• Autonomy and initiative: capable of owning deployments end-to-end.
• Willingness to travel regularly (up to ~25%).

You’ll excel if

• You take ownership and see projects through end-to-end.
• You’re independent and proactive in solving problems.
• You’re a natural hacker: building quick, practical solutions in messy environments and iterating until robust.
• You build trust with plant engineers and align solutions to their priorities.
• You’re curious and analytical: dive into complex processes and data for insights.
• You’re a strong communicator: explain technical ideas to engineers on the plant floor and stakeholders in the boardroom.
• You thrive in dynamic, high-impact, mission-driven environments.

Success in this role means

• Plants see clear performance improvements — lower costs, reduced CO₂, improved stability.
• Process engineers trust and rely on you as a partner in solving problems.
• Deployments become repeatable and scalable thanks to your technical contributions and playbooks.
• You help shape Carbon Re’s product, moving it from code-heavy to configurable and scalable.

What we offer

• A competitive salary: 60,000 to 80,000
• Equity in the company
• Flexible working
• 30 days of holiday (plus bank holidays)
• A generous pension scheme

Interview process

• A screening call for 30 minutes to understand your motivations for applying for the role
• Technical Interview 1: Data Analysis & Solution Design — analyse a simplified plant dataset and sketch how you’d turn findings into a solution
• Technical Interview 2: Cement Process Optimisation — work through a kiln optimisation scenario and recommend an operating strategy
• An operating principles discussion to establish cultural fit
• A final call with our CEO

We’re building a team that reflects the world we want to change. Our operating principles include Concrete Honesty, Forever Optimising, Increase Torque, Maintain Reliability, and Cement It with Fun & Kindness. We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds who are excited by what we do.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development

London, England, United Kingdom