Hiring: Machine Learning Expert Company: Oxy Location: Houston, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:34:39 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Machine Learning, PyTorch, Python About the job Experience: •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. •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. Required Skills: •Develop ML and hybrid physics-ML methods for seismic imaging, inversion, and velocity model building — including ML-assisted RTM, LSRTM, and FWI. •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. •Move successful prototypes into production imaging workflows, with the documentation and reproducibility that requires. •Communicate results clearly to geophysicists, data scientists, and asset teams. Qualifications: •M.S. or Ph.D. in Geophysics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field. •Demonstrated experience applying machine learning to geophysical or other physics-based scientific problems. •Solid functional 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. •Sound scientific judgment: the ability to design a fair comparison, recognize a result that is too good to be true, and communicate uncertainty honestly. •Uncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling, or ML-assisted optimization for expensive geophysical workflows. •GPU, HPC, or distributed computing experience; AWS in particular. •Effective use of AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development and debugging of scientific workflows. •A record of research prototypes that reached production use. •Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!