Level Nine - Berlin - Global - Construction & Infrastructure
Who we are
Europe’s chemical industry faces an existential crisis resulting from a deep dependence on volatile fossil feedstocks, regulatory pressures, and cut-throat competition from China and the Middle East. Locally abundant bio-based feedstocks offer an escape route from fossil feedstock dependency, but chemical companies lack the technologies to bring them online.
At Level Nine, we’re building an AI-driven catalyst discovery platform to produce key chemical building blocks from locally abundant bio-based feedstocks, reducing dependence on volatile global feedstock markets while using existing chemical manufacturing infrastructure.
About the team & role
We are an interdisciplinary team of scientists and operators, supported by leading advisors, networks, and VCs across Europe. We’re based in Berlin, one of Europe’s leading deep-tech hubs. We are not looking for corporate specialists who need a finished process and mature documentation. We need high-agency analytical builders who are curious, reliable, and technically grounded, creating structure while the process is still evolving.
As we transition towards executing our industrial demo plant, we are navigating developing a chemical process that requires robust process safety, structured discipline, precise control loops, and ATEX compliance. You will serve as our internal owner and technical challenger for process safety concepts, control philosophies, instrumentation specifications, and automation architectures.
You will join our core engineering team to take on real, hands-on engineering work with direct impact. You will establish the control logic, P&IDs, instrument lists, and cause-and-effect interlocks for our design package, direct specialised skid-mounted engineering suppliers, build our campaign data backbone, upgrade our in-house pilot rigs, and ensure customer sampling campaigns achieve strict reproducibility. Your job is to challenge and translate our process design basis into safe, controlled, logged, and highly reproducible operation.
Control Philosophy, P&IDs & Instrumentation:
Process Safety, HAZOP & ATEX Compliance:
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