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Senior Data Engineer - Oil & Gas

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We are looking for a Senior AI/ML Engineers to join our team, that sit at the intersection of software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building end-to-end solutions - from data pipelines and backend systems to AI-powered applications - and wants to work on real-world industrial use cases that comes from an Engineering background, and has experience in Oil & Gas.

In this position, you’ll contribute to a variety of impactful client projects, including:

  • Building AI-powered anomaly detection systems for operational and industrial data
  • Modernizing asset management workflows
  • Developing natural language interfaces for querying enterprise and operational data
  • Designing and implementing AI agents and copilots for business users
  • Creating scalable data pipelines and ML workflows in cloud environments
  • Enabling real-time and batch data processing for analytics and AI use cases
  • Working through complex and challenging data conditions, including incremental processing, late-arriving or changing records, complex business and engineering rules, and reconciliation of results across processing runs

The ideal candidate combines strong data engineering experience with an engineering or applied-science background. Direct experience industrial time-series data, scientific measurements, telemetry, financial reconciliation, or other datasets where accuracy, traceability, and incremental recalculation are critical.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize pipelines for sensor and related operational data.

  • Develop complex transformation and calculation logic based on engineering requirements.

  • Implement robust incremental-processing patterns for high-volume and continuously changing datasets.

  • Design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI/ML solutions in production environments

  • Develop robust backend systems and APIs to support AI-driven applications

  • Build and maintain data pipelines and feature engineering workflows

  • Implement and operationalize machine learning models (training, deployment, monitoring)

  • Work with modern AI tooling (LLMs, agents, orchestration frameworks)

  • Collaborate with clients to translate business problems into technical solutions

  • Contribute to architecture decisions and best practices across projects

  • Mentor client team members and contribute to internal capability building

  • Work directly with engineering and operational SMEs to understand physical processes and translate their knowledge into technical requirements.

  • Make engineering calculations and data transformations explainable, traceable, testable, and auditable.

  • Document data lineage, calculation logic, assumptions, dependencies, and exception-handling rules.

Ideal Background

  • Senior-level experience designing and developing production data pipelines with Azure Databricks including strong experience with complex SQL, Python, Spark, or comparable data-processing technologies.
  • Demonstrated experience with incremental processing, change detection, reconciliation, and idempotent pipeline design.
  • Experience handling time-series, telemetry, sensor, operational, scientific, or industrial data.
  • Ability to work through ambiguous requirements with highly specialized SMEs.
  • Strong analytical and investigative skills, with the patience to work through detailed logic and difficult data-quality problems.
  • Degree or professional background in petroleum, reservoir, chemical, mechanical, geological, geophysical, or another relevant engineering or applied-science discipline is strongly preferred.
  • Experience in upstream oil and gas, thermal operations, SAGD, well surveillance, production engineering, or subsurface data would be a significant asset.
  • Hands-on experience with AI/ML workflows and model deployment.
  • Modern developer tooling (Cursor, AI-assisted development, Langraph, "vibe coding").

This role presents an exciting opportunity to work on practical, high-impact AI use cases - not just prototypes, shape how AI is applied to client environments, and change the game on traditional processes and platforms. Come join a growing organization helping clients take a new, lean and value-driven approach to data and engineering!

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