Senior Industrial Automation SME

Who We’re Looking For

Though over 1,800 strong (and growing!), Radix operates like anything but a large company. When you join our company, you will help us as a Program Manager:

Radix develops engineering and digital solutions for organizations operating complex and asset-intensive facilities. Our projects bring together operations, maintenance, engineering, automation, data, connectivity, and software expertise.

With operations in Brazil and the United States, Radix supports global organizations in transforming technology opportunities into scalable industrial capabilities.

About the engagement

Radix is seeking a Senior Industrial Automation SME to support a strategic technology engagement for a major global Oil & Gas organization.

Relevant industry experience is required for this position. The specialist must understand how automation, robotics, UAVs, remote sensing, and machine-vision technologies are affected by process safety, hazardous-area classifications, cybersecurity, regulatory requirements, remote operations, and integration with existing industry control environments.

This is a project-based independent contractor opportunity, compensated at an agreed hourly rate for approved hours.

As a Senior Industrial Automation SME, you will:

• Provide specialist input on robotics, autonomous systems, UAVs, remote sensing, machine vision, and process automation.
• Participate in discovery sessions, technical workshops, specialist interviews, and cross-domain reviews.
• Identify technology-enabled use cases across Oil & Gas operations, maintenance, inspection, reliability, and safety.
• Assess the suitability of ground robots and autonomous systems for industrial and hazardous-area environments.
• Evaluate UAV applications for flares, stacks, tanks, confined spaces, pipelines, offshore facilities, and other industry assets.
• Assess regulatory and operational requirements associated with BVLOS operations.
• Evaluate fixed and mobile imaging systems, IoT devices, and wireless smart sensors.
• Assess machine-vision applications such as leak detection, flare monitoring, PPE compliance, and exclusion-zone monitoring.
• Evaluate integration requirements involving DCS, PLC, SIS, historians, industrial networks, and edge platforms.
• Consider advanced process control, functional safety, cybersecurity, and process-safety requirements.
• Support technology research, vendor screening, market RFI development, clarification interviews, and demonstrations.
• Review vendor evidence related to certification, production deployment, reliability, maintainability, and support.
• Assess whether technologies can operate safely, securely, and sustainably at scale.
• Identify prerequisites related to instrumentation, connectivity, procedures, hazardous-area certification, workforce capability, and maintenance.
• Contribute to Now, Next, and Future recommendations, Target Pictures, scaling roadmaps, Action Boards, and resource plans.
• Collaborate with Data, Digital Twin, Mobility, cybersecurity, process, reliability, cloud, and edge specialists.

To succeed in this engagement, you should have:

• Significant professional experience in industry.
• Practical knowledge of operations, maintenance, inspection, reliability, and engineering in industry.
• Nice to Have experience with upstream, midstream, downstream, offshore, refining, petrochemical, or comparable environments.
• Understanding of process safety, hazardous-area requirements, industrial cybersecurity, operational reliability, and safety lifecycle requirements.
• Strong expertise in at least two of the following domains:
• Industrial robotics and autonomous systems
• Ground robots for inspection or operations
• UAV-based industrial inspection
• Remote sensing and industrial cameras
• IoT and wireless smart sensors
• Industrial machine vision
• DCS, PLC, and SIS integration
• Advanced process control
• Functional safety and automation safety lifecycle
• Experience assessing equipment or technologies for hazardous, regulated, or safety-critical environments.
• Experience evaluating technology maturity, deployment evidence, integration requirements, and operating readiness.
• Ability to distinguish successful demonstrations from solutions ready for sustained industrial deployment.
• Strong analytical writing and communication skills.
• Advanced professional English.
• Availability to collaborate during agreed hours, including overlap with Houston, Texas.

It will be a plus if you have:

• Knowledge of IEC 61508, IEC 61511, ISA/IEC 62443, API guidance, or applicable aviation regulations.
• Experience with edge AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, or autonomous inspection.
• Familiarity with digital permitting, inspection management, maintenance systems, and industrial data platforms.
• Experience conducting market RFIs, vendor demonstrations, technology assessments, or industrial pilots.
• A relevant engineering degree, postgraduate qualification, or professional certification.

Engagement model

• Independent contractor engagement, paid hourly.
• Primarily remote delivery.
• Candidates may be based in Brazil or the United States.
• Hours will vary based on assigned project activities and deliverables.
• No minimum number of hours is guaranteed.
• Hours must be submitted through the agreed approval and invoicing process.
• Final commercial and contractual terms will be established in the independent contractor agreement.

Interested?

Please submit your English resume or professional profile, relevant Oil & Gas project examples, current location and time zone and general availability.