Oxy
Senior AI Language Model Engineer
Houston, Texas · Senior
No sponsorshipDetected 30 days ago
PythonReactFull-Stack DevelopmentGitSQLNoSQLAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformMachine LearningData ScienceNLPLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraphResearchLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking
About the role
- Oxy produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life.
- Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa.
Responsibilities
- End-to-end design, research, development, and deployment of language engineering use cases, with continuous client engagement and collaboration.
- Design workflows for language model deployment.
- Perform prompt engineering, pre-processing, and post-processing to optimize output suitability.
- Fine-tune and optimize multi-agentic systems to satisfy use case requirements.
Requirements
- Very strong proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience using version control systems.
- Familiarity with modern NLP/LLM frameworks and libraries such as LangChain, LangGraph, Hugging Face Transformers, and vector databases.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS (EC2, S3, SageMaker, Bedrock, etc.) through projects.
- Experience with database systems (SQL and/or NoSQL) and data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Step Functions).
- Experience working in fast-paced, startup-like, or R&D-heavy environments.
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- Working front-end proficiency when needed.
- PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
- Strong foundation in large language models (LLMs) and natural language processing (NLP), with practical experience demonstrated through GitHub repositories, research publications, or a portfolio.
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), multi-agentic systems, and agentic frameworks (e.g., Strands Agents SDK), with the ability to design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI agents and orchestration pipelines.
- Strong communication skills for collaborating with teams and presenting technical results.
- Additional Desired Qualifications:
- Familiarity with any front-end development (e.g., React) to build user-facing applications.
- Ability to end-to-end develop and deploy full-stack applications - from data ingestion and model development through back-end APIs to front-end interfaces - in addition to the core data science and ML work.
- Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.
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Skills
- The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.
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