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# Senior Piping Engineer (Power Generation / Gas-to-Power) at Candid Intelligence

- **Company:** Candid Intelligence
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/candidintelligence/26415500-98b0-4e4b-9bc5-5b08cdf8d4be

## Job description

## What We’re Building

Candid is building the AI layer for EPCs. We use AI to reduce the manual effort behind preconstruction engineering by automating document understanding, consistency checks, and repetitive workflow steps across major disciplines. Our goal is to make preconstruction 10x faster without sacrificing engineering quality. We recently raised $6.5M from top AI and industrial investors (including Schneider Electric and Meta’s Chief AI Scientist). Our team includes engineers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, major LNG and power projects, and leading EPCs.

This Role We're hiring a senior piping engineer who has actually delivered power generation and gas-to-power projects at a top EPC, PMC, or owner-operator. Think combined cycle, simple cycle and peakers, gas-to-power for data centers and behind-the-meter campuses, LNG, and cogeneration, with the high-energy steam cycle and balance of plant piping that goes with them. If your career has been refining or petrochem process piping with no power work, this isn't the right fit. This is a hands-on role. You'll do real piping engineering on our delivery work for the parts our software can't handle yet, you'll be the quality check on what the software does produce, and you'll shape where the product goes next. Three jobs in one, and the mix shifts as the product gets better.

## What You'll Do

This is hands-on engineering plus product. Day to day you'll:

- Do real piping engineering on our FEL-2 and early-phase delivery work, owning the parts our software can't handle yet so projects ship
- Be the quality gate on Candid's automated piping outputs: catch what's wrong before it reaches a client, and feed it back so the product gets sharper
- Define how piping information gets developed and validated through FEED and early detailed design on power and gas-to-power projects, and what "good" looks like
- Review and validate piping content across P&IDs, line lists, piping specs, and tie-in lists
- Build repeatable checks that catch tagging, completeness, and consistency issues early
- Map where piping rework happens, why it happens, and what inputs drive it
- Clarify interface points with Process, Mechanical, I&C, Electrical, and Civil/Structural (pipe racks and supports)
- Separate the steps that are genuinely repetitive from the ones that need real engineering judgment

You'll help define the checks, workflows, and product requirements that let software take on the repetitive parts, with engineers in control.

## What We're Looking For

- 7+ years at a large scale EPC, PMC, or owner-operator, with most of it on power generation or gas-to-power
- Direct experience on combined cycle, simple cycle, gas-to-power, LNG, or cogeneration projects (not refining or petrochem only)
- You've personally owned line list and piping spec development through FEED
- Strong on power plant piping: high-energy steam cycle (main steam, hot and cold reheat, feedwater), plus fuel gas, condensate, cooling water, and balance of plant piping
- Hands-on with ASME B31.1 (power piping) and B31.3 (process piping)
- Familiarity with pipe stress analysis and stress-critical line identification (CAESAR II or similar)
- Experience with plot plan and 3D model driven layout (AVEVA E3D / PDMS, SmartPlant 3D, or similar)
- You spot inconsistencies across P&IDs, line lists, and vendor packages fast
- Clear understanding of cross-discipline dependencies
- You've felt boxed in by big-company process and you want out
- Comfortable with ambiguity and wearing multiple hats; bias to action over waiting for perfect

## Nice to Have

- Discipline lead or technical authority experience
- Work on data center or behind-the-meter power campuses
- High-energy piping materials and metallurgy (P91, P22 chrome-moly), or pipe support and spring hanger design
- Brownfield tie-ins and constructability constraints
- Real interest in AI and automation

Who Thrives Here You've outgrown the big-firm machine. You're tired of waiting three weeks for a markup to clear four layers of review, and tired of watching good work die in a stage gate. You want to own your scope end to end, see what you build actually ship, and have a direct line to the founders and the product instead of a 12-person approval chain. At Candid you'll wear several hats and there's no playbook handing you a defined lane. If that sounds like freedom, you'll love it here. If it sounds like chaos, you won't, and that's okay.

## Perks

- Meaningful base + equity
- Unlimited PTO. Great work needs recharging.
- Health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision
- Up to $150/mo health and wellness reimbursement (gym, fitness classes, and similar)

## About Candid Intelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Candid Intelligence builds AI-driven software to compress pre-construction timelines for large energy and industrial infrastructure projects, helping owner-operators and EPCs reach Final Investment Decision (FID) faster.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Talha Faiz (Co-Founder & CEO) and Hassan Azmat (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Construction (energy infrastructure, data centers, process plants, nuclear facilities)
- **Target customers**: B2B Enterprise – owner-operators (e.g., Shell, SABIC, Meta) and EPCs (e.g., Worley, Burns & McDonnell, McDermott)
- **Mission**: Collapse pre-construction timelines and free engineers to build the infrastructure the world actually needs.

## Products & Services
- **Candid AI Platform**: An AI-assisted system that ingests engineering drawings (P&IDs, isometrics, plot plans), builds knowledge graphs, orchestrates multi-agent workflows, and enables real-time document reconciliation. Designed to compress FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) from months to days and improve cost certainty from ±30% to ±20% [candidintelligence.com](https://www.candidintelligence.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $6.5M (Seed round, as of 2025) [candidintelligence.com](https://www.candidintelligence.com/join)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: E14 Fund (MIT’s venture fund), Liquid 2 Ventures, Flexcap Ventures, and angel investors including Yann LeCun and Carnegie Mellon alumni [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/candid-intelligence) [candidintelligence.com](https://www.candidintelligence.com/join)
- **Growth Signals**: POCs with leading EPCs; clear success metrics to beat “pilot purgatory”; backed by investors of OpenAI and xAI; team intentionally capped at 10 people until $100M revenue [candidintelligence.com](https://www.candidintelligence.com/join)

## Competitive Advantages
- **On-premise deployment**: All models and data stay within customer infrastructure, ensuring control and compliance for mission-critical projects.
- **Human-led AI**: The platform assists but does not replace engineers; every output is reviewable, editable, and requires human approval.
- **Institutional knowledge capture**: Senior engineer judgment and assumptions are preserved and made reusable across projects.
- **Proven domain focus**: Built by engineers with backgrounds in aerospace, finance, and national-scale systems, tailored specifically to energy infrastructure pre-construction.

## Strategic Focus
- **Collapse pre-construction timelines**: Reduce the typical 2-year pre-construction phase to weeks, enabling earlier FID and faster project delivery.
- **Expand into adjacent verticals**: Data centers, nuclear facilities, and other large-scale capital projects that share similar engineering workflows.
- **Maintain lean team**: Aim to keep headcount under 10 until reaching $100M in revenue, relying on automation and 10× builders.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Partners, not employees” – self-directed, self-managed, and shared control over strategy. No managers, only builders.
- **Remote-first**: Default remote, with plans for an in-person hub in Houston to stay close to customers. Meetings only when vital.
- **Compensation**: High and equal base pay with profit-sharing for all partners. Success is shared directly.
- **Engineering focus**: Small team of top-tier builders; every partner is a full-stack builder with deep expertise in AI, infrastructure, or energy engineering.
- **Impact**: Work on problems that directly affect the $2T energy infrastructure industry – only 1 in 200 projects finish on time and budget.

## Sources
1. [candidintelligence.com](https://www.candidintelligence.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/candid-intelligence)
3. [candidintelligence.com/join](https://www.candidintelligence.com/join)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/candid-intelligence)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/candidintelligence)

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