Applied Systems Design Engineer - Stealth Industrial Innovation Project (Contract)

Location: Remote

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: CONTRACT

• Participate in 2-day structured ideation workshops for each of 3 approved opportunity areas, using methods including analogous industry models, constraint inversion, Jobs-to-Be-Done reframing, and co-creation with ecosystem participants
• Generate and visualize 8–12 solution concepts per opportunity area
• Apply feasibility filters to eliminate concepts that don't comply with constraints and timeline
• Develop service blueprints, system diagrams, and operational flow maps for shortlisted solution concepts
• Design two POC configurations that are scoped, testable, and capital-efficient — each with defined geography, volume, counterparty, timeline, and binary success metrics
• Create visual artifacts for IC presentations: concept renderings, process flows, system architecture diagrams, and POC design specs
• Collaborate with the project's Analyst on unit economics by identifying the physical and operational assumptions that drive cost structures
• Conduct field visits to understand site realities: what things looks like, how elements function together in practice, what equipment footprints require

• 4–8 years of industrial design, service design, or systems design experience — ideally across energy, infrastructure, agriculture, logistics, or hard-tech domains
• Demonstrated experience designing physical systems or services that operate in industrial or field environments — not purely digital products
• Strong visualization skills: you can communicate a complex system concept clearly through sketches, diagrams, or prototypes before committing to formal deliverables
• Comfortable operating in conditions of high ambiguity — you can generate useful concepts even before all constraints are known
• Ability to work collaboratively with researchers, analysts, and business strategists inside a time-boxed sprint process
• Familiarity with POC design methodology: defining scope, setting measurable success criteria, sizing capital requirements
• Experience in oil & gas, water infrastructure, agriculture, or industrial logistics is a genuine advantage

• Viable, well-scoped solution concepts for 3 opportunity areas — each grounded in operational reality, not just strategy
• Two IC-approved POC designs with clear scope, timeline, capital cap, binary success metrics, and identified killer assumption being tested
• Design artifacts (blueprints, system maps, concept visuals) that give IC members confidence in operational feasibility
• Physical and operational assumptions that hold up under unit economics pressure-testing with the project's Analyst