SMP - Data Scientist / Digital Solutions Analyst

Job Title Data Scientist / Digital Solutions Analyst / Digital Solutions Specialist

Salary Code 11

Preferred Gender Male

Preferred Nationality Any

Minimum Job requirements leads a multidisciplinary team to execute and deliver digital and AI projects for Gas Plants starting from solution scouting, scooping, PoC, deployment, evaluation and value tracking.

Originates and carries out studies to identify potential advanced analytics use cases and applications to existing problems resolve complex technical problems, increase revenue, optimize processes, protect the environment, or improve safety using their advanced analytics/data science background.

Examines the business problem and identifies the required learning task (i.e. classification, clustering, regression, forecasting … etc.)

Selects appropriate Machine Learning algorithms suited for the selected learning task and condition/structure of the data. This includes but not limited to Decision Trees/Forest, Support Vector Machines, kNN, Neural Network and Deep learning.

Builds and deploys predictive models using algorithms such as linear/logistic/dynamic regression to address the business needs.

Selection criteria Degree, skills, experience

Preferred major study in the bachelor degree BS in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or other related degree from an accredited university. Advanced degree in an engineering discipline with focus on machine learning, artificial intelligence, applied statistics or operations research is desirable.

Specify work experience Statistics, Machine Learning, Time Series, Deep Learning, NLP, Foundation Models

Knowledge of Python, API & other machine learning frameworks is a must.

Experience with selecting appropriate machine learning algorithms, building predictive and forecasting models, and solution deployment and maintenance is desirable.

Experience with deployment of advanced analytics solutions based on machine learning techniques in upstream and downstream processes will be an asset.

Knowledge of plant automation systems, standard real time interfaces such as OPC and process historians such as PI is desirable.

Experience with identification of new advanced analytics use cases, business value quantification and working with multi-disciplinary teams on delivering analytics solutions will be an asset.

Awareness of Digital Transformation area and experience with delivering Digitalization initiatives will be an asset.

Preferred certificate No preference

Preferred skills Programming Languages: Python, JAVA, C

ML, GenAI & Other Technology stack: Scikit-learn, NLTK, SpaCy, Gensim, SciPy, TensorFlow, Keras, Pandas, PyTorch, Huggingface Transformers, LangChain, Ollama, IBM watsonx, Watson Discovery, Elastic, Milvus, FAISS, Streamlit for web UI development, REST API creation using FastAPI, ArcGIS

Fresh graduate or experience Experience

Work Location Dhahran