2 months 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.
Categories
AI ApplicationsForward Deployed
About Vitol
Vitol trades, transports, and distributes energy and commodities—from crude and refined products to gas, power, renewables and carbon credits—for refineries, utilities, airlines, retailers and other traders. It also operates and invests in supporting infrastructure, including shipping, terminals and storage, and power assets. Founded in 1966 and privately held, Vitol is headquartered in Rotterdam and runs a global business from 40+ offices.