Sr. Staff Chemical Engineer
Bloom Energy•San Jose, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
At Bloom Energy, we are seeking a Sr. Staff Chemical Engineer to join our Data Science team. In this role, you will apply deep chemical engineering expertise alongside coding, analytics, and automation to improve, scale, and optimize complex manufacturing processes. This position is at the intersection of process engineering, data science, and software, focusing on building scalable, data-driven solutions rather than day-to-day operations. The role reports to the Sr. Principal Engineer, Data Science and is based in San Jose, CA. This is a fully on-site, in-office role, 5 days a week.
Requirements
- PhD or MS in Chemical Engineering (or related field)
- 6+ years of industry experience, including senior/staff-level technical impact
- Proven ability to translate chemical engineering problems into data and code
- Process modeling, scale-up, and root-cause analysis (Aspen)
- Python (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy; visualization libraries)
- Automation of engineering calculations and analysis workflows
- Working with large datasets, time-series data, and process historians (OSIsoft PI, Aspen IP21)
- ML or statistical modeling applied to physical systems
Responsibilities
- Apply first-principles chemical engineering to data-driven process modeling and optimization
- Develop Python-based tools, pipelines, and workflows to automate engineering analysis
- Build and maintain digital twins, soft sensors, and advanced analytics models
- Analyze large-scale manufacturing data to identify performance, yield, and reliability opportunities
- Partner with data scientists, software engineers, and process experts to deploy solutions into production
- Own complex, ambiguous problems from model concept to deployment
Benefits
- standard company benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
