AI Machine Learning Engineer

Occidental Petroleum - Houston, TX

Full-time

Houston, TX

Oil and Gas Extraction

About the position

The AI Machine Learning Operations Engineer will be a key contributor within the AI Center of Excellence group at Oxy, responsible for researching, building, and designing artificial intelligence systems. This role focuses on automating predictive models and designing machine learning systems to enhance operational efficiency and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Design the right machine learning model architecture and model type for particular applications
• Tune the hyper-parameters of algorithms
• Perform training and validation of models
• Create workflows to optimize performance for computationally heavy workloads
• Work with data scientists to improve the data and model for optimal accuracy

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering or related field required
• Master's degree is highly preferred
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in orchestration methods and tools for computational infrastructure
• Deep knowledge of machine learning methods and algorithms
• Strong Python or R programming skills
• Knowledge of Linux environment
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft products (Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Power BI)
• Experience developing, architecting, and running ML or deep learning workload in the Cloud
• Ability to express the intuition behind basic ML algorithms
• Experience performing basic hyper parameter optimization
• Ability to follow model training, deployment, and operational best practices
• Experience with Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration
• Knowledge of Terraform and Ansible for automating infrastructure management
• Knowledge of YAML for automating model and application code deployment
• Understanding of data engineering principles and databases (relational, NoSQL)

Nice-to-haves

• Certified in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud provider is highly preferred
• Ideally AWS certified in Machine Learning Specialty