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Industry Solution Leader - Oil, Gas & Chemical (Refining / Chemical Asset Performance)

C3 AI· Forward Deployed Engineering
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BengaluruFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Industry Solution Leader (ISL) for Oil, Gas & Chemical to lead design and delivery of enterprise AI solutions for Refining / Chemical Asset Performance, combining deep industry expertise with end-to-end customer solution ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Own the overall solution strategy, technical direction, and delivery outcomes for assigned customer engagements, from problem definition through production deployment and scale.
  • Serve as the primary customer-facing solution leader and domain expert, understanding customer operations, equipment, processes, constraints, and business objectives.
  • Identify and quantify high-impact business opportunities across reliability, maintenance, production performance, process optimization, throughput, yield, quality, energy efficiency, and operating economics.
  • Translate complex engineering and operational challenges into tractable AI, machine learning, optimization, and software problems with defined requirements, success criteria, and business value.
  • Lead engagements through use case definition, requirements gathering, solution architecture, application configuration, validation, deployment, adoption, and scale-out.
  • Apply engineering and industry expertise to challenge assumptions, evaluate approaches, and ensure alignment with fundamentals and realities.
  • Lead cross-functional teams of Forward Deployed Engineers, data scientists, product managers, engineers, and industry experts to deliver outcomes.
  • Collaborate with customer engineers, operators, reliability teams, maintenance organizations, and executives to validate requirements and measure impact.
  • Guide interpretation and use of industrial data (process signals, equipment attributes, states, maintenance history, etc.) for problem solving.
  • Maintain accountability for solution quality, business value, risks, progress, adoption, and executive communication.
  • Partner with product management and engineering to identify reusable capabilities and scale solutions across assets and facilities.
  • Support sales in opportunity assessment, solving customer problems, defining value, and deployment approaches.
  • Develop statements of work and deployment plans with clear scope, data needs, risks, timelines, and resources.
  • Develop repeatable industry methodologies, solution patterns, and best practices; represent C3 AI in customer, industry, and technical forums.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, Mining, Metallurgical, Petroleum, Materials or similar preferred).
  • 7+ years in engineering, manufacturing, operations, reliability, maintenance, industrial technology, or technically focused consulting.
  • Deep experience in asset-intensive industries (oil & gas, chemicals, petrochemicals, etc.) or related sectors.
  • Proven ability to solve complex operational problems and improve equipment reliability, production performance, throughput, yield, quality, maintenance effectiveness, energy efficiency, or economics.
  • Strong understanding of industrial equipment, processes, controls, maintenance practices, and workflows.
  • Experience with industrial data (sensor/time-series, states, alarms, maintenance history, production data, quality data, hierarchies, engineering data).
  • Experience with industrial systems (SCADA, DCS, MES, ERP, EAM/CMMS, historians, advanced process control, analytics platforms).
  • Ability to reason from engineering fundamentals to ensure credibility of AI-driven recommendations.
  • Experience leading complex, customer-facing technical engagements with engineering, operational, and executive stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to structure ambiguous problems and drive practical solutions.
  • Ability to collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and customer teams; translate between domain, business, and technical requirements.
  • Excellent presentation, written communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
  • Willingness and ability to travel to customer locations as required.

Skills

Required:Solution leadership

Benefits

  • C3 AI provides excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package and generous equity plan.
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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