Vitol

Forward Deployed Engineer

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24 days ago
Houston, TX, USAMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Embed with commercial teams to understand workflows, constraints, and objectives and identify high-value AI opportunities.
  • Translate business problems into technical requirements, solution designs, and delivery plans for agentic solutions.
  • Build, integrate, deploy, and extend the internal GenAI platform, including integrations, data connectors, MCP servers, tool-calling, and domain-specific skills.
  • Apply AI and modelling techniques to commodity pricing, supply and demand signals, trade flow analysis, and operational optimization.
  • Communicate requirements, constraints, and reusable patterns to foundational AI and platform engineering teams.
  • Present AI capabilities, assumptions, and limitations to traders and senior management.
  • Participate in code reviews, experiment and evaluation design, tooling decisions, and mentoring.

Requirements

  • Degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, data science, or a related quantitative field.
  • At least 3 years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning, data science, or a related hands-on technical role.
  • Fluency in Python for applied AI and engineering, including clean, modular, documented code and software engineering best practices.
  • Practical understanding of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, agentic workflows, model evaluation, and responsible AI.
  • Proficiency with modern GenAI orchestration and tooling frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, with AWS preferred.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for working with technical teams and commercial stakeholders.
  • Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
  • Curiosity about emerging AI developments and willingness to develop expertise in commodities markets, global energy flows, and trading dynamics.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid vacation.
  • 401k with company contributions.
  • Life insurance.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Large diversity of global, real-world projects and collaboration with trading desks across London, Singapore, Houston, and Geneva.
  • Houston, Texas location with in-office work five days per week.

Tech Stack

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About Vitol

1,001-5,000 employees
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