Control and automation lead

Zen Carbon is seeking a Control & Automation Lead to architect, implement, and scale the automation backbone of our mineralization reactors. This role will transition our systems from partially manual operation to fully instrumented PLC-based control architectures, integrating process control, MRV, carbon accounting, and deployable digital MRV (dMRV) frameworks.
You will own:
PLC system architecture for next-generation mineralization reactors
Real-time process monitoring and control
Sensor and actuator integration
Data acquisition and infrastructure design
Reaction-state inference from sensor signals
Failure detection and diagnostics
Scalable dMRV-ready infrastructure
What Success Looks Like (7 Months)
Fully deployed PLC architecture for next-gen mineralization reactor
Instrumentation framework with defined uncertainty budgets
Automated carbon accounting pipeline
dMRV-ready infrastructure
Documented FMEA and diagnostics framework
Scale-ready...