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title: "Staff Process Modeling Engineer"
company: "Mariana Minerals"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/mariana-minerals"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/mariana-minerals-staff-process-modeling-engineer-7b9a0533-f8e1-49a9-9778-05741b9a78f6"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/marianaminerals/451bfa6d-b429-450f-b272-5a77d52cf384"
workplace: onsite
location: "Houston, TX"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: staff
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["python"]
salary: "$100,000–$160,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-09-04T18:05:12.243Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-05T08:28:22.654Z
---

# Staff Process Modeling Engineer

**Mariana Minerals** · Houston, TX

Salary: $100,000–$160,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/marianaminerals/451bfa6d-b429-450f-b272-5a77d52cf384

## About Mariana Minerals

Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company focused on supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies.

## About the role

### About Mariana Minerals

Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.

### The Role

Mariana Minerals is seeking a highly motivated Staff Process Modeling Engineer to support the development of next-generation refining processes for critical minerals — key to enabling the world’s energy transition.

In this role, you will be responsible for developing, validating, and optimizing heat and material balance models using tools such as ASPEN Plus/HYSYS, SysCAD, OLI Studio, or METSIM. You will work closely with R&D, pilot operations, and project execution teams to translate lab and pilot data into robust, scalable process models that drive the design of first-of-a-kind mineral refining facilities.

As a Staff Process Modeling Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader for process simulation and modeling, providing subject matter expertise across multiple projects, developing modeling standards and best practices, and mentoring junior engineers while partnering with cross-functional teams to support process development from concept through commercial deployment.

### What You’ll Do

- Develop steady-state and dynamic process models to establish heat and material balances for integrated mineral refinery systems using ASPEN, SysCAD, OLI, or METSIM.

- Automate equipment and process sizing (reactors, heat exchangers, filters, crystallizers, evaporators, and separators) based on model outputs, linking models to datasheets and other engineering tools

- Develop and maintain process simulation databases, ensuring consistency and traceability between modeling assumptions, test data, and engineering deliverables.

- Calibrate and reconcile models using pilot or plant operating data to ensure model fidelity and predictive accuracy.

- Conduct process optimization studies — evaluating energy/heat recovery, recycle strategies, and material efficiency improvements.

- Develop dynamic process models to validate PLC and DCS programming and evaluate/optimize buffer sizing throughout the design.

- Link process models to CAPEX and OPEX estimation tools, automating technoeconomic model development

- Document modeling methodologies and results, providing clear technical communication for design reviews, techno-economic assessments, and regulatory submissions.

### What You’ll Bring

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline

- 8+ years of experience developing and applying process simulation models for chemical processing, hydrometallurgy, mining, refining, or related industrial process systems.

- Proficiency in one or more of the following process simulation tools:ASPEN Plus / HYSYS

- SysCAD

- OLI Studio / OLI Flowsheet

- METSIM

- Deep understanding of mass transfer, heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid flow, and reaction engineering.

- Experience developing material and energy balances for multi-step, integrated process systems.

- Strong grasp of chemical equilibria and phase behavior in aqueous and non-aqueous systems.

- Familiarity with data reconciliation, parameter fitting, and model validation using experimental or operational data.

- Competency with Python or MATLAB for model automation, data processing, and custom calculations is a strong plus.

- Experience integrating process modeling outputs into EPC deliverables (PFDs, P&IDs, equipment datasheets, control narratives, etc.)

#### Our culture is built on four principles:

**Everyone Gets Home Safe. **We never put speed or cost ahead of people.

**Extreme Ownership. **We take full responsibility for outcomes, relentlessly driving toward solutions.

**Engineer Out Requirements, then Automate. **We simplify, optimize, and then automate for scale.

**Share Your Legos.** We collaborate openly, share knowledge, and empower each other to build bigger, better solutions.

**Join us as we build the future of responsible mineral sourcing and supply!**

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