Join a mission-driven team applying cutting-edge AI to decarbonize the world’s heaviest-emitting industries. You will develop supervised learning models and soft sensors to optimize real-time operations in cement and steel plants. This role bridges fundamental ML research and production-grade engineering to achieve measurable, gigatonne-scale reductions in global carbon emissions.
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Machine Learning Engineer Physical Systems at Carbon Re
Are you ready to use your ML expertise to tackle the climate crisis at a gigatonne scale? Carbon Re is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to build AI that optimizes the world's most carbon-intensive industries, starting with cement and steel. You'll work at the fascinating intersection of physics and machine learning, developing surrogate models and soft sensors that drive real-world efficiency. With a production-ready platform already being deployed by global industrial leaders and a culture built on 'Concrete Honesty,' this is a rare opportunity to see your code directly reduce global CO2 emissions.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Carbon Re - VC-backed Industrial AI company
Backed by Planet A Ventures, Clean Growth Fund, UCL Technology Fund, Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund, Blue Impact Ventures, Innovate UK (grant support).
What you'll do
What you will do
- Build supervised learning and surrogate models for time series prediction and real-time process optimization in energy-intensive manufacturing facilities.
- Design and deploy robust MLOps pipelines using Docker and MLflow to handle noisy, large-scale industrial sensor data across multiple plants.
- Collaborate with process engineers to integrate thermodynamic constraints and conservation laws into hybrid ML models for improved reliability.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Strong background in supervised ML for time series modeling, regression, and classification applied specifically to physical or industrial systems.
- Proven experience deploying production models with CI/CD, monitoring, and handling real-world data issues like drift and missing values.
- Expertise in the Python stack (PyTorch/TensorFlow, scikit-learn) and the ability to translate chemical or process engineering knowledge into model design.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Tangible climate impact: Your models directly reduce millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions by optimizing high-temperature industrial processes at scale.
- Technical innovation: Work at the intersection of ML and physics, utilizing graph neural networks, state-space models, and physics-informed neural networks.
- Strong commercial traction: Deploy solutions already used by global leaders like Heidelberg Materials through a strategic partnership with industrial giant ABB.
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