
AI Optimization Engineer
Occidental Petroleum Corporation3 months ago
Houston, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Apply continuous and combinatorial optimization, control, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithmic techniques to build, maintain, and improve decision systems and processes.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to identify relevant information sources and formulate meaningful problems and questions.
- Identify relevant data and create data input and output pipelines and application programming interfaces.
- Design and apply system models, advanced control techniques, system identification, and state estimation methods.
- Develop feasible, practical solutions and explain the rationale and findings clearly to business stakeholders.
- Present results that may contradict common beliefs when supported by the analysis.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of dynamic, parametric, and non-parametric optimization methods.
- Experience with dynamic and/or static system modeling.
- Experience designing and implementing advanced control techniques such as Model Predictive Control and adaptive control.
- Knowledge of system identification and state estimation methods such as Kalman filtering and Moving Horizon Estimation.
- Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to modeling, optimization, or control problems.
- Proficiency in Python and experience with Git version control.
- Excellent oral and written communication, teamwork, time management, and ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Knowledge of the oil and gas industry is an additional qualification.
- Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud platforms, Docker, and Kubernetes is an additional qualification.