Lead Engineer - Industrial AI

Company Description

Assidious Power & Energy Pvt Ltd is a cutting‑edge systems and intelligence company at the crossroads of industrial decision‑making, conversational computing, and advanced energy technology. With a focus on tackling complexity and dynamic operating conditions, our flagship platform, Pluribus, pioneers decision intelligence by bridging the gap between context, action, and outcome. We are dedicated to enhancing operational precision and adaptability, while also innovating future‑ready solutions such as Pluribus GPT for conversational computing and Pluribus SSB for pioneering energy systems like solid‑state batteries. At Assidious, we aim to address real‑world challenges with a vision for enduring technological advancements.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering processes
• Strong analytical skills and experience in process improvement
• Effective communication skills for cross‑functional collaboration
• Proficiency in AI and machine learning implementation in industrial contexts (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and foster innovation
• Experience in energy systems or related fields is a plus
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline
• Problem‑solving mindset and ability to navigate complex environments

Role Description

🏭 Lead Engineer — Decision Intelligence

Assidious · Bhubaneswar, Odisha · Hybrid · Full‑time

We are building Pluribus — a Decision Intelligence platform for integrated steel plants.
Not another dashboard. Not another sensor analytics tool.

Pluribus captures what plant operators decide — the blast volume adjustment at 3 am, the reblow call on a borderline heat, the burden change when ore chemistry shifts — evaluates those decisions against real outcomes, and builds a compounding decision memory that makes every future shift smarter.

India's steel plants have 10,000 sensors. They have zero decision sensors. We are fixing that.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to own the technical build of the Pluribus decision engine — working directly with the Founder & CTO.

You will lead:

• The decision inference engine — detecting operator decisions from SCADA, MES, and historian data without any manual input
• The matching and advisory layer — finding similar historical decisions from the plant's growing decision library
• The outcome evaluation loop — scoring decisions when results arrive, running counterfactual analysis
• The broadcast engine — automatically routing process change alerts to the right teams, eliminating manual coordination calls between shifts
• The data pipeline — ingesting, processing, and structuring industrial time‑series and event data

This is not a maintenance role. You will be the technical lead on something that does not exist anywhere else.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• ★ Strong Python — not just scripting, real software engineering
• ★ Comfort with time‑series data, event logs, JSON, structured industrial datasets
• ★ Ability to own and deliver end‑to‑end — architecture, build, and ship
• ★ 3–6 years of engineering experience
• ★ Curiosity about how industrial operations actually work — domain knowledge is teachable, curiosity is not
• ★ Based in or willing to work from Bhubaneswar — we are 90 minutes from Angul, one of India's largest integrated steel plants, and proximity matters

Essential: exposure to industrial systems (OT, SCADA, MES, historian data), ML basics, Azure, React.

WHAT YOU GET

• ★ Above‑market salary — we pay well because we expect a lot
• ★ Performance bonuses tied to pilot milestones — when Assidious wins, you win
• ★ The title Lead Engineer at a company building a new industrial AI category — this follows you for life
• ★ Direct access to senior leadership at Big Steel from week one — you will be in real plant conversations, not writing code in isolation.
• ★ Industrial AI expertise you cannot build anywhere else in India right now — this domain is scarce, growing fast, and engineers who learn it early will be in significant demand
• ★ A Founder & CTO who works alongside you — you will get exposure to enterprise architecture, steel domain depth, and how to sell deep tech to industrial buyers
• ★ Flexible hybrid — 2–3 days in Bhubaneswar, rest remote

WHO WE ARE

Assidious is a Decision Intelligence platform company headquartered in Bhubaneswar, Odisha — at the heart of India's steel belt. We are building for Indian industry, from Indian soil.

Our flagship platform Pluribus is in active pilot conversations with Jindal Steel Limited. We have two independent inbound tracks running at one of India's largest integrated steel plants. We are at the beginning of something significant.

If you want to lead the build of something that matters — not optimise ad funnels or improve checkout flows — this is the role.

Application

Email sahanawaz@assidious.com with a short note on what you have built and why this problem interests you. No formal cover letter — just tell us about your work.

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