AI Researcher - Houston TX

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Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Research and Development

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

September 2, 2021

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Where you fit in -

As an innovation organization, we maintain a portfolio of digital projects driven by applied research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals. As an AI Researcher, you will setup large-scale experiments and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating proof of concepts and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our AI Researchers work on real-world problems that span the breadth of various lines of business.

What's the role -

As an AI Researcher, you'll also actively contribute to the wider Shell.ai community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with strategic partners, universities and technical institutes all over the world.

As we transition to cleaner forms of energy, the challenge facing the energy industry in the coming decades is considerable. AI will play a crucial role in helping the energy industry to navigate through the energy transition. In this role, you’re going to be an integral part of the Deep Learning and AI Innovation group as well as the data and computational sciences technology platform.

The AI Researcher is responsible for initiating, development & delivery of DL and AI solutions in an agile fashion to the business in order to provide insights & improvement to business processes or support the creation of innovative business models.

As and AI Researcher you will:


Develop and execute a cutting-edge research agenda at the intersection of DL and AI.
Support research activities including design sprints, literature reviews, field research, and prototype building.
Use innovative research to influence relevant products and partner teams across Shell, and to have company and societal impact
Collaborate with colleagues across Shell with multidisciplinary backgrounds including SMEs, IDT, product management, etc.
Publish research findings in top-tier scholarly venues; and participate in workshops and conferences to stay apprised of new developments and grow your expertise.
Accountable for executing the Digitalization Work Scope
Accountable for initiating Final Review of the AI Service/Work
Accountable for the Closeout, Quality Review and Customer Satisfaction Survey
Accountable for maintaining Policies and Standards for Information and Data analytics


Special Challenges:


Building constructive and trusting relationships with mostly remote business stakeholders
Dealing with challenges in data acquisition from other parts of the business
When it comes to developing one of Shell’s forward-looking innovation program, your strategic thinking, and strategic partnership development capability will make all the difference. You should have the capability to develop working relationships where you will connect the internal and external innovators, take up their innovations, and help to shape it into a robust product that is ready to generate commercial value.


Skill and Requirements

What we need from you -


Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.


Demonstrated technical skills in:


Masters or PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, theoretical science, statistics, or operational research
At least five (3) years’ experience in experience in developing AI products and good working knowledge of latest digital technologies
Experience in data science delivery in a corporate environment is desirable.
Should have experience in applying analytical methods to real data. That can also be by having done projects during their studies.
Expertise in one or more of the following: fully convolutional neural networks, transformer networks, GANs, weak supervision, reinforcement- and imitation-learning, novel architectures (graph-convolution, U-Net, PointNet, BSPNet, etc.)
Hands-on code development (Python, JAVA, MatLab, R, SAS)
Strong Tensorflow, PyTorch, or Keras experience
Use of advanced analytics technology in the context of application deployment
A mathematical background covering some subset of linear algebra, probability, multivariate calculus, geometry, and numerical methods will be invaluable
Prior experience with Git is best, but a background with Mercurial or other DVCSs is an acceptable substitute.
Knowledge of data source extraction (ETL) is desirable (HANA, SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, Spark)
Comfort with some flavor of Unix shell environment (e.g. bash) will be helpful


Demonstrated soft skills in:


A problem-solving mindset and an enthusiasm for learning new skills
Must have strong technical skills to develop advanced analytics algorithms/models.
Skilled in analytics
Skilled in data design integrity
Skilled in value exploitation
Awareness of lifecycle and data management is desirable
Awareness of information and data strategy and governance is desirable
Commercial skills are an advantage
Have interpersonal, communication, facilitation and presentation


Company description

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible. We have expertise in exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals.

As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business.

Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

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According to the United Nations, the global population could increase to more than 10 billion people. A key role for society – and for Shell – is to find ways to meet the growing demand for energy, with less carbon emissions. We need people who dare to think differently – to take part in developing tomorrow’s energy solutions today.

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