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About the Role

Level Nine is building an AI-driven catalyst discovery platform to produce key chemical building blocks from locally abundant bio-based feedstocks. As we transition towards executing our industrial demo plant, we need an 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, establishing control logic, P&IDs, instrument lists, and cause-and-effect interlocks for our design package.

Responsibilities

Draft, review, and release complete P&IDs, control topologies, cause-and-effect interlock matrices, and alarm philosophies.
Specify field instrumentation compatible with solvents, oxidants, and acidic media.
Establish PLC/DCS control system architecture, hardware requirements, and communication protocols.
Lead formal HAZOP, LOPA, and SIL assessment studies.
Establish ATEX zoning classifications and specify explosion-proof electrical and instrument equipment.
Prepare technical safety dossiers for local German regulatory approvals.
Design safety instrumented systems and emergency shutdown logic.
Co-author basic design package deliverables to set clear specifications for external partners.
Lead safety, instrumentation, and control interactions with specialised engineering suppliers.
Oversee control cabinet assembly, shop testing, FAT, and SAT.
Design and maintain campaign data infrastructure, including batch records, historian/DAQ structure, alarm/event logs, sample timestamps, control recipes, and partner campaign data packages.
Implement data acquisition and modelling tools for kinetic, thermal, mass/energy, and solvent recycle models.
Oversee control parameters during external partner campaigns, establishing standardised control protocols and logging systems to guarantee under 5% batch-to-batch variation.

Requirements

3–5+ years of hands-on working experience drafting and verifying P&IDs, specifying instrumentation, and designing control philosophies, cause-and-effect matrices, and safety interlocks for chemical process plants.
Demonstrated experience executing HAZOP/LOPA studies, ATEX zoning (Directives 2014/34/EU and 1999/92/EC), Seveso III compliance, and managing energetic or solvent reactions (peroxides, flammable solvents).
Proven track record generating basic design control documentation and managing modular skid fabricators through detail design, FAT, and SAT.
Ability to collect data and model it using tools to draw FEED conclusions, establish dynamic models, and link experiments to reproducible results.
Professional German proficiency (C1+, strictly required to lead HAZOPs, liaise with German regulatory authorities like TÜV/Bezirksregierung, and negotiate with local EPCs and fabricators) and fluent English.
High agency, first-principles thinking, and practical engineering judgment.
Comfortable getting hands dirty troubleshooting sensors, control valves, or wiring on pilot rigs.

Skills

AI-driven catalyst discovery
Process safety
Control philosophies
Instrumentation specifications
Automation architectures
P&IDs
Instrument lists
Cause-and-effect interlocks
Control logic
Data acquisition
Modelling tools (Python, Excel, Aspen, gPROMS, ChemCAD)
HAZOP
LOPA
SIL assessment
ATEX zoning
Explosion-proof electrical and instrument equipment
Technical safety dossiers
Safety instrumented systems
Emergency shutdown logic
Basic design package
Modular skid fabricators
FAT
SAT
Batch records
DAQ structures
Campaign data packages
Pressure Equipment Directive (PED 2014/68/EU)
SIL ratings (IEC 61508/61511)

Location

Berlin

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

3-5+ years

Education Level

Degree in a relevant engineering field with a process safety specialisation (plus)

About the Company

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.
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.

Equal Opportunity

We strongly welcome diverse perspectives and people who have the courage and conviction to make real change.