Occidental Petroleum
Machine Learning Expert
Houston, Texas, USA
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About the role
- Oxy produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life. The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products. Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa. To learn more, visit Oxy
- Oxy strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. 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.
Responsibilities
- Build workflows that handle large multidimensional seismic datasets on GPU and cloud infrastructure.
- Validate new methods against established physics-based approaches, and make an evidence-based case for where they add value and where they do not.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on (post academic) FWI experience: you have personally run full-waveform inversion on real seismic data.
- Familiarity with FWI from coursework or literature alone is not sufficient for this role.
- Working knowledge of seismic imaging and the numerical methods behind it: wave propagation, inverse problems, and optimization.
- Proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch, including training, validation, and performance evaluation.
- Experience working with large scientific datasets and computational workflows.
- Experience with neural operators, implicit neural representations, generative models, or physics-informed neural networks applied to wave-equation problems.
- Experience combining wave physics with ML, including differentiable modeling and inversion.
- Experience with offshore or Gulf of America seismic data.
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- M.S. or Ph.D. in Geophysics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on (post academic) FWI experience: you have personally run full-waveform inversion on real seismic data. Familiarity with FWI from coursework or literature alone is not sufficient for this role.
- Demonstrated experience applying machine learning to geophysical or other physics-based scientific problems.
- Sound scientific judgment: the ability to design a fair comparison, recognize a result that is too good to be true, and communicate uncertainty honestly.
- Additional Desired Qualifications:
- Uncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling, or ML-assisted optimization for expensive geophysical workflows.
- GPU, HPC, or distributed computing experience
- AWS in particular.
Skills
- Oxy produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life.
- The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products.
- Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa.
- To learn more, visit Oxy
Company info
- We are looking for a motivated individual to fill the position of Machine Learning Expert within our Subsurface Innovation Imaging Team based in Houston, TX.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.
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