Occidental Petroleum
Senior AI – Computer Vision Engineer
Houston, Texas, USA · Senior
No sponsorshipDetected 63 days ago
PythonAWSLinuxMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchNLPComputer VisionA/B TestingResearchLeadershipCommunicationPublic 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
- Design, manage, and continuously improve image and video labeling workflows, using Roboflow or similar annotation tools
- Optimize computationally heavy training and inference workloads, including GPU utilization, memory efficiency, and throughput/latency tradeoffs
- Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams (AI platform, software engineering, domain experts) and mentor junior engineers
Requirements
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field required.
- Excellent Python skills (required), including writing clean, efficient, production‑ready code
- Ultralytics YOLO experience required, including training and tuning on real‑world datasets
- Excellent teamwork, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences
- 6+ years of hands‑on experience in computer vision or applied deep learning. An equivalent combination of relevant education and experience will be considered.
- Strong experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, CNN‑based architectures, transformers, and Vision‑Language Models
- Practical familiarity with Hugging Face and Roboflow
- Experience working with GPU‑accelerated workloads and CUDA‑enabled deep learning frameworks
- Experience developing or running ML workloads on AWS, including Amazon SageMaker and GPU instances
- Strong experience working in Linux environments
- Demonstrated contributions to computer vision research, including peer‑reviewed publications, conference papers, or equivalent applied research output
Skills
- The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products.
Benefits
- Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment and positively impacting our communities where we do business.
- We are looking for an experienced and innovative Senior AI - Computer Vision Engineer to join the AI Center of Excellence (ACE) group based in Houston, TX.
- This individual contributor role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying production‑grade computer vision solutions across Oxy, supporting a wide range of industrial, operational, and subsurface use cases.
- Design and select appropriate computer vision model architectures for classification, detection, segmentation, and object tracking
- Develop deep learning models using PyTorch and TensorFlow
- Lead research and development (R&D) efforts to evaluate, prototype, and adopt state‑of‑the‑art (SOTA) computer vision models and techniques where they provide business or operational value
- Stay current with advances in computer vision research, including new architectures, training methods, and foundation models, and translate relevant innovations into practical solutions
- Apply Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) to multimodal computer vision workflows (e.g., OCR, image‑to‑text, prompt‑driven visual understanding)
- Deliver computer vision models for surface and downhole image analysis, including lithology, facies, and textural interpretation
Visa & Work Authorization
- Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.
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