Oxy produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life. The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products. Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa. To learn more, visit Oxy

Oxy strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment and positively impacting our communities where we do business.

We are looking for an experienced and innovative individual contributor to fill the position of AI Machine Learning Engineer within our AI Center of Excellence group based in Houston, TX. The incumbent will research, build, and design artificial intelligence systems to automate predictive models, and design machine learning systems, models and schemes.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Work with Subject Matter Experts to design appropriate machine learning model types and architectures for particular applications ranging from subsurface characterization, reservoir engineering, production, and facilities etc
Tune algorithm hyper-parameters and perform model training and validation
Create workflows to optimize performance for computationally heavy workloads
Collaborate with Machine Learning Operation team to deploy machine learning solutions to the cloud

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering or related field required
Master's degree is highly preferred. Equivalent combination of advanced education and relevant experience will be considered.
A minimum of 5 years of experience and deep knowledge in orchestration methods and tools to optimally use computational infrastructure, and machine learning methods and algorithms
Strong Python or R programming skills required
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)
Strong critical thinking and communication skills

Additional Desired Qualifications

AWS certification is highly preferred, with a strong preference for the AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty credential.
Experience with Bayesian statistical modeling, including Bayesian inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), and causal inference.
Hands‑on experience in geospatial data analytics using Esri products, with a focus on ArcGIS Enterprise.
Experience with LLM-powered applications such as chatbots, question-answering systems, document processing and agentic workflow design.

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Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees
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