Combinatorial Optimization Jobs in Houston, TX (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Oxy is a company that produces, markets, and transports oil and natural gas, focusing on lower-carbon technologies. They are seeking an experienced AI Optimization Engineer to apply advanced optimization and AI techniques to improve decision systems within their Applied AI Center of Excellence.
Responsibilities:
• Apply advanced continuous and combinatorial optimization, control, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithmic techniques to build, maintain, and improve on decision systems/processes.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information and formulate the right questions and problems.
• Identify what data is available and relevant, leveraging and creating data input and output pipelines and application programming interfaces (APIs).
• Provide feasible and real-life practical solutions, and demonstrate the scientific qualities: clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance, and fairness.
• Present and depict the rationale of findings in easy-to-understand terms for the business.
• Present back results that contradict common belief, if needed.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of optimization methods, including dynamic, parametric, and non-parametric approaches
• Experience in dynamic and/or static system modeling.
• Experience designing and implementing advanced control techniques such as Model Predictive Control (MPC), and adaptive control.
• Knowledgeable in system identification and state estimation methods such as Kalman filtering and Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE)
• Knowledgeable in machine learning concepts and their application to modeling, optimization, or control problems
• Proficient in Python
• Experience with Git version control
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Effective team player who takes an active role in team responsibilities.
• Strong time management skills.
• Ability to work with minimum of supervision.
Preferred:
• Knowledge of the oil and gas industry.
• Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration.
Company:
Oxy is an international energy company that produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life. Founded in 1920, the company is headquartered in Houston, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.