Research Engineer in advanced models and control engineering

ArcelorMittal is the world’s largest steel producer. We use the most innovative technologies to create the steels tomorrow’s world will be made of. Every day over 125,000 of our talented people, located in over 60 countries, push the boundaries of digitalization, and use advanced technologies to create a stronger, faster, and smarter world. To help make this possible, they know they can depend on the support and training that a company of our scope and scale can provide.

Comprising 1,650 researchers spread across 14 Research Centres around the world, our Global R&D team aims to continuously improve the quality of steel and its manufacturing processes. This involves investigating and developing disruptive technologies, reducing the carbon footprint of steel, and optimizing costs while maintaining uncompromising quality. The team's strong multicultural diversity, with over 30 nationalities, offers international experience and makes it possible to meet global needs.

ArcelorMittal Maizières Research is the worldwide largest research centre of ArcelorMittal company.

The position is located within the Digital Technologies Department of the Maizières Process Research Centre, composed of more than 35 people (researchers PhD, engineers, technicians, trainees…), covering a large spectrum of competencies (sensors, computer vision, data science, automatism, models, physics, …).

The mission of the Digital Technologies Department is to develop digital and sensors-based solutions for process control and optimization on the one hand and quality product control on the other hand.

The activities of the department are deeply involved in the digitalization of manufacturing processes (industry 4.0), in the creation of the new decarbonization routes of ArcelorMittal, while providing solutions for our factories worldwide.

Your role

Inside a team of 5 people (PhD), you will be involved in several activities linked to online steel product characterization and digitalization (industry 4.0), in which you will contribute to three main research axes:

• Physical & AI-based models for on-line measurement of metallurgical
• Physical & AI-based models for on-line process control characteristics of the steel
• Physical thermal models for process control & optimization

You will:

• Develop and integrate advanced physical & metallurgical models to monitor and optimize steel manufacturing process
• Develop and integrate real-time control systems
• Lead research activities in the framework of research projects and technical support to plants
• Contribute to the development and renewal of the activities: proposal of new research axes, new projects

Your profile

• You hold a Master's degree or a PhD in a relevant discipline (Physics, Control Engineering, Automation).
• You have a solid background in physics and/or in control engineering (measurements, feedback loops, Model Predictive Control, optimal controls...).
• You have solid knowledge of real-time and embedded systems, as well as heat transfer, thermal phenomena and physics (combustion, pyrolyze, oxidation, physical modeling...).
• You have knowledge in measurement techniques (instrumentation, signal processing).
• You have computer programming skills with MATLAB/Simulink, Fortran, or Python.
• You are fluent in French and in English.
• You are able to work in a team inside an R&D Lab and to communicate with a large number of stakeholders (program leaders, portfolios, process engineers…).

According to ArcelorMittal Global R&D values:

• You agree to comply with health and safety rules.
• You are respectful, transparent, honest, and empathetic in your relationships. You honor your word and your commitments to others.
• You agree to behave consistently with the highest level of integrity.
• You strive to question your practices. with high expectations of yourself and others, you strive for a high level of quality and reliability in everything you do.
• You recognize that diversity, varied skills, and fresh ideas make a group exponentially better in the pursuit of a common goal.
• You know that learning changes minds and lives, so you are committed to learning throughout your professional career and continually achieving the skills required and essential to your success.
• You are open to ideas that challenge conventions and stimulate innovation.

Join us and you will see that your work will help create renewable energy, impact major industries and boost economies. At ArcelorMittal, we'll help you create your world.

Attractive remuneration with stimulating career prospects in which eminent scientists and engineers evolve in a multicultural environment.