THE PROCESS LAB
We create industrial automation technology never seen before.
Our Research
Agentic Automation Toolchain
Software engineering looks fundamentally different today — agentic programming has dramatically transformed developer experience and productivity. Yet automation engineers are still stuck developing and debugging projects on legacy Windows software and outdated hardware. This has to change.
We're building a full suite of IEC 61131-3 compatible tools — open source, built for the Agentic Automation era.
AI Optimization
Replacing the legacy stack of MPC / PID + human operators with reinforcement learning to deliver closed-loop optimization at the process unit level.
APC + PID + human operators have ruled process industry control for nearly a century. The limits are clear: linear models, hand-crafted tuning, no adaptation to operating drift, and punishing deployment and maintenance costs.
We're building the next generation of unit-level optimization control with RL — toward chemical production that is truly autonomous and self-optimizing.
Join Us
To apply, email hr@global.supcon.com with the work you're proudest of — a GitHub repo, a personal site, a PDF write-up of a hardware or software project, anything you've built that shows what you can do.
Automation Software Engineer
What you'll do
- Help us rethink how factories are programmed—like software, not like legacy PLCs or configuration tools.
- Build the next generation of industrial control systems across runtime, tooling, IDE, communication, and web interfaces.
About you
- You're genuinely excited by the idea of reinventing how the physical world is programmed.
- You care about computers, programming languages, systems, or developer tools—not just building ordinary apps.
- You want to work on something fundamental, ambitious, and deeply technical.
What we're looking for
- Must have designed interesting PLC/DCS programs, with hands-on experience in at least one of Codesys, TIA, or TwinCAT.
- Must have designed interesting production lines or process workflows.
- Strong programming fundamentals and clear curiosity about how systems really work.
- Willingness to explore cross-layer problems spanning software, control, communication, and tooling.
- Bonus: Exposure to RTOS, serial communication, EtherCAT, PLCs, compilers, IDEs, or web development.
AIO Engineer
What you'll do
- Build autonomous optimization systems for the real world — connecting AI, control, and process intelligence.
- Prototype and tune reinforcement learning, model-predictive control, or hybrid physics-ML algorithms.
About you
- You’re an ML/Control engineer who wants your models to touch the real world.
- You enjoy writing code that both trains and controls.
- You’re excited by the challenge of turning industrial data into autonomy.
What we're looking for
- Familiar with chemical process control, with a chemical engineering background, and has designed interesting DCS programs and controllers.
- Strong foundation in ML / optimization — e.g., reinforcement learning, MPC, system identification, or Bayesian methods.
- Understanding of control theory, process systems, or simulation environments is a plus.
- Experience with real-time data or streaming frameworks (MQTT, OPC-UA, Kafka, etc.) is a plus.
Mechatronics Engineer
What you'll do
- Design, source, and build small experimental production lines — and program them with IA2 instead of legacy PLCs and automation IDEs.
- Pick lines that are genuinely interesting to run. What they produce isn't the point — what matters is rich transmission, complex control logic, and looking cool enough to fully exercise IA2's features and performance.
- Help us make 'Vibe Coding' a physical industrial line real.
About you
- You like working at the seam of hardware and software — and want your code to move real motors, valves, and product down a line.
- You can speak software's language well enough to tell software engineers exactly what's happening on the hardware side.
- You enjoy building something physical from scratch and making it run.
What we're looking for
- Strong mechatronics fundamentals: mechanical design, electrical wiring, sensors, actuators, pneumatic/motor selection, plus the tuning and assembly to make it all work.
- Foundations in software development and communications debugging — enough to describe what's happening to a software engineer in their own terms.
- Able to own the loop end-to-end: equipment selection, BOM, procurement follow-up, assembly, wiring, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
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